the making of bitter. This in turn has led me to the realisation that I've literally no idea how one goes about making beer.
Anyone have any idea where one starts?
the making of bitter. This in turn has led me to the realisation that I've literally no idea how one goes about making beer.
Anyone have any idea where one starts?
Bloke in our office has now set up his own brewery, cut his days at work to 3 and looks like he will go full time with it in the New year..... but i don't have a clue where to startQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
It was a popular pastime in the 1970s, brewing your own beer. I had a friend whose family business was making and selling kits to do it. They made a fortune for a while, expanded rapidly, and then the whole thing collapsed around their ears. I suspect you can still buy a kit, though. (It's going to taste like liquid sewage.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Caxton's homebrew kits were it not?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Dunno. They were sold in Boots, I recall.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
I don't want one of these homebrew kits that make it easy. I want to do it from scratch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
The only problem is space. I currently have about six gallons of cider doing its thing in the utility room. I may have to adapt the wânking shed.
to brew his own in the 70's. Practically undrinkable and produced a hangover like one's skull had been brutally cleft by a medieval axe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Yup.
Walk into the Shamley Green shop, pick up 4 cans of Budweiser and 4 cans of whatever strikes me i.e. San Miguel, Fosters etc, pay for it, take it home, drink it.
Job done. :thumbup:
I think they are talking proper beer here, not ****ty lagerQuote:
Originally Posted by WES
You would drink Budweiser and/or Fosters?Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
Even Northampton brewed San Miguel is borderline...
:redcard: FFS
Yup :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Because, IUFG, I am not a beer snob. Like any sensible chap, I'm quite happy drinking either lager or bitter depending on the circumstance.
And anyone who says that Czech lagers and Polish lagers etc etc are far superior to Bud or San Miguel are either pretentious liars or they have taste bud issues.
Nowt wrong with a cold can of Bud. Lovely stuff. :lager:
It varies quite a lot in quality actually, from a bit foul to quite ok. As does much of the UK-brewed canned lager I find. Safer to get the Polish stuff imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Says the man who slags off Spitfire and other ales. I had a lovely bottle of Stavropramen the other night. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
I like a lager as much as the next man, but would certainly draw the line at (American) Budweiser and Fosters. They're like piss.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
Czech beers? I found Krusovice 12 to be very enjoyable.
I've drank quite a bit of Krusovice in the pub. Is good. Not seen it in the shops.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Saying you don't like a particular bitter or lager does not make you a beer snob. Slagging off lager generally or American lager etc does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
If you put Budweiser in a foreign labeled can the majority of those who slag it off would drink it and enjoy it. It's that whole 'let's hate anything mass produced by Americans' thing the Brits love to do. Bizarrely, no matter how much of mass produced American stuff they seem to eat and drink. See also Starbucks, McDonalds and KFC.
Tyskie is a fine dropQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I don't think you can get it in UK shops.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Budweiser has rice in it. Rice. Rice has no place in beer. None.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
Actually, worse even than Budweiser and Fosters is that repulsive Carling stuff. Which is, of course, entirely the fault of the Canadians.
Who cares what was put in it if it tastes good. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Carling? I thought that was an English lager? Seemed very popular in Newcastle when I was up there once.
But Budweiser doesn’t taste ‘good’. It doesn’t taste bad, either. It just doesn’t really taste of anything. It’s just neutral, fizzy, cold stuff that can get you pìssed without you having to taste anything at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
Even Stella tastes of something, ffs! It’s foul monkey píss that tastes like profound self-loathing feels, but it does at least taste of something. Budweser’s greatest sin is that it tastes of absolutely nothing.
Was founded in London - Ontario. Your fault entirelyQuote:
Originally Posted by WES
So that's you in the 'has taste bud issues' category. It does have taste, I know because I can taste it. It tastes like what it is, a mild but pleasing lager with a slightly sweet taste and a nice balance between hops and malt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
That nicely clears up many of your views on food and drink though. Nice one. :-)
I'd never seen nor heard of it until I came to England. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
No. You're just using words you've heard but don't really understand to describe something whose whole raison d'etre is a lack of flavour.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
You're making yourself look very silly. Again.