As an age old home brewer regarding the sediment in the bottle of the bottle. If you put a couple of bottles in the fridge foer 2 or 3 hours, when you come to pour, the sediment will have hardened and will ssay put at the bottom of the bottle.
I have noticed this too. I like to give my beers at least an overnight chilling. The better I do making a clear brew being bottled, the thinner the sediment is, hard to even see. I rack though.
100% correct about the sediment, and it was fizzy, I say fizzy/gassy as I only ever made lager so not sure about any other kinds of alcohol (Bitter/Mild/Cider/Wine etc). I used to do Tom Caxton and one called Vinacan, the vinacan (at the time - mid 80's) was 50p for 40 pints plus sugar etc. I preferred to bottle it as to put in a barrel, and yes it meant a little more work but it was well worth it in my opinion.
I did some brewing in the 90's ,but started again in the latter of 2022 ,done about eight 40 pint brews a mix of I P A lager , Mexican, and wheat beer ,I actually prefer my beer to shop beer and you need to take out a loan to drink in a pub these days 😊
I used to make beer many years ago and by accident, I forgot about the bottles and left them for a month. The results were much better then the standard time they suggest.
A little tip, squeeze the air out after filling up the bottle, this reduces the chance of oxidation. It will expand again after a couple of days as co2 is produced.
i made one of these kits but mixed up kilos and pounds so i put 2 kilos instead of 2 pounds, took nearly 3 weeks to stop fermenting but wow what a pint it tasted great and had a real kick these kits are really forgiving.
@nate_river_ not a clue it was a Scottish style Heavy and should have been just 3.7abv but was way strongeri would guess around 6% but thats just a guess, really nice tasting pint though and as shown on video so easy to do. If you get a kit you like you can play around with it a bit, too bitter you can reduce the hops but the kits are so reasonably priced if you dont like it pour it away and try another.
I used yo make these kits. The best I found was to use the malt extract from two kits plus 50% more sugar than suggested, to make the same quantity. This gave a much more full bodied finished product with about 8% ABV. Dangerous stuff 🥴🥴🤣🤣
Back in the day I brewed some stout. It was disgusting. Put it aside and a year later pulled it out because needed the bottles. Tried one and it was delicious.
did the same (many years ago as a student) my home brew was never that good, then one day rooting through the empty bottles i found an unopened, un drunk bottle , tried it...OMG.. it was the best tasting beer iv ever drank!
Good result Fred! Watching that brought back some good memories of when we were skint before my daughter was born many years ago. We’d sit drinking homebrew listening to music at weekends. Simpler times. I used to use finings from a sachet to clear the beer more, not sure if they actually did much but those were the pre internet days when you got information from books 😂 73’s Franco
Haven't seen this one in my local Range shop, I'll have to keep an eye out for it. I did however, pick up 3 of their wine kits. I have the red one fermenting as we speak.
Instead of using sugar, add one third of the weight for sugar, and use honey instead. It will cost a little more (still a fraction of supermarket or pub prices) but will make the end result so much better.
@@nathangamble125 It's called Braggott, but yes, it is a small easy change but makes a huge difference. It can take a little longer to ferment out, but the difference isn't big enough to worry about. and the resulting drink is worth may times the additional time.
I used to make wine from some grapes in the garden, I used a packet of sugar as well and I thought I was cheating. But it tasted lovely. I used a liquidiser to mash the grapes down and yeast from the chemist. I'd get about 10 gallons and maybe bottle it or not depending on how I felt about all the sterilising and corking of wine bottles. It was great at a BBQ though to put a demijon on the table and say 'there you go - enjoy!' :-) I did try Beer but I drank it too quick :-)
And Me, always had a batch on the go, 40 pints of Boots Continental Lager, ( made with liquid yeast), unfortunately had to stop as I had constant callers 7 days a week, after free booze.
I used boots kits as well, really good quality beer. Used to have a couple of pressure barrels so always had beer on the go and never ran dry. Happy days
I’ve made loads of homebrews over the decades and some kits are pretty good. One of my favourite brews is cider. Literally just the cheapest apple juice you can find a little bit of honey and yeast. Stick it in a sterilised demijohn and you will have some pretty potent cider in a few weeks. Alcoholic ginger beer is another easy one. Perfect for making super deadly Moscow mules! 😂😂
I'm going to give it a go. The only problem I'll have is to have five of them at different stages on the go being a thirsty 40-50 pint a week guy, it'd save a few quid. Great video, thanks Fred
Those kits look great, I'll grab a couple of those. Lager has to be cold conditioned to get the distinctive crisp taste so I usually make bitter with Geordie kits, never tried making stout so I'll give that one a go. A hydrometer will tell you when it's safe to be bottled, especially when using glass. I've subbed 👍
On recommendation I purchased a Boots lager kit. After a few weeks I tried it and it was awful. If I remember correctly, I popped some sugar in left it for quite a while. Anyway, grabbed a couple of bottles one night, flipped the top off, and it nearly smashed the neck of the bottle! My wife and I drank them and when we came to stand up to go to bed, we could hardly walk and laughed all the way up the stairs, as we tried to get to the top. We often laugh about it - but boy was it strong!😂
You've got me interested again. I used to brew my own when it worked out at 10p a pint and the extract came in tins. Congrats, you've got me converted again. 😁
Very interesting. The husband of a woman I chatted to on Two Metres used to homebrew beer. Growing up in Bexleyheath there was a vacuum cleaner spares and repair shop that sold home brew beer kits on the side.
used to do home brewing with my dad years ago. We used the old Alpine pop bottles glass 2 ltr. Unican lager is what we brewed. We had a thermostat which kept the brew at temperature while fermenting, usually a week was long enough. Once bottled keep in warm place for secondary fermentation,then keep cool. We also used to do one pour into a litre jug,because u always disturb the sediment when u pour half the bottle.
Great vid and great hobby to get into! Makes me want to get back into it! Couple of things I noticed.. the kit should be 23 litres total, I think, so if you made it up to 26 litres (after already adding 3 litres of hot water) it’ll be a lower abv (but still tasty) brew at the end. Also, you’re introducing a lot of oxygen after fermentation, which massively speeds up making the brew stale, so it’s good to attach a food safe hose to your tap (or better yet, a product called ‘little bottler’) so that you’re filling from the bottom up without splashing a lot in the bottle. If you’re drinking them all within a few weeks, you’ll be fine, but if you’re storing them longer, you might notice them starting to taste stale. Keep up the good work though and getting affordable, tasty beer in peoples minds!!
I used to make home brewed beer and wine many years ago but lost interest, you may have just rekindled that. A few people here say to use dextrose instead of plain sugar, I always used invert sugar which I used to make myself and was easy. We drink lots of sparkling water so your idea of using these is brilliant. Someone here also mentioned microplastics from the bottles, well believe me you are far more likely to get microplastic contamination from your clothing than those PET bottles that are used for gazillions of products today.
speaking as a scientist, 100% true re microplastics. Don't sweat them, there are a shit ton more things in your system to worry about than microplastics.
We would bring along 5 gallon water containers when we would hike way out in the country. When we found a spring or a well with good tasting water we would take jugs of that water home to make the best beer we ever had! The water also makes great, coffee, tea and orange juice too. It's free if you don't mind taking a nice walk.
I’ve never brewed lager or stout as always thought I’d need a pressureized barrel but watching this makes me relize I donnt lol….i love making my wines off all the fruit I produce from my allotment…. Hopefully the range delivers..as I did go in one of the shops and couldn’t find any kits….bitby bit I’ve found ways to make wine making easier and faster …I do have some videos on my channel ..( IM IN THE SHED )… think I may have to do videos like yours of the whole process in one video as I do them in parts …great video and easy to follow unlike loads I see that make it so complicated..
Don’t drink anymore but I made my own beer for years. I’d offer friends visiting a beer and see them pull a face…. until they tried it and were shocked how good it was. Always used malt extract instead of sugar which I found to be much better flavour wise. Biggest thing is thorough sterilisation as mentioned in the video.
@ You could well be right but I tried both and preferred the brew made with malt. The owner of the home brew shop I used was a great salesman though and of course wanted to sell as much stuff to me as he possibly could.
Can i ask? how do you sterilise the bottles? i was thinking boil them right? but obviously he hasnt done that as the labels would have come off. so how did he do it i wonder.?
@ I used to use that stuff for sterilising babies bottles, I think it’s called Milton. Didn’t use plastic bottles when I was making home brew but probably not so easy to find glass bottles with a screw top now.
Did a lot of home brew back in the 90s - mostly wine but a bit of beer, too. Had the 40L fermenter and a "Beersphere" for pressurized finishing. The kits were OK but may have improved. Mostly I experimented with mad combinations like Marmalade Beer, Tea and Raisin Wine, Lemon Mead. The wine I did in demijohns. Some of it was very vigorous and had a habit of restarting if it got a bit warm. Damson Wine comes to mind! It's fun as long as you have a bit of space including somewhere cool. The trouble was I kept drinking it!
Try not to open your brew until it's ready, if you need to test gravity or try it, use the tap. If bacteria gets into it it can ruin the batch. Also, if you store the bottle upside down for the first few weeks, the worst of the sediment will settle in the lid, then very very gently turn the bottles over and store without disturbing them until you're ready to drink, do not store them in your fridge door, they'll be constantly disturbed and won't clear up, ideally a secondary fridge is best. Also try and keep them for closer to two or three months before drinking. Then your beer should end up almost clear and golden rather than amber.
Hi fred my friends dad made some, i had only 2 pint and it made me very tipsy. He doubled up on all the ingredients but kept the same amount of water. 😊😊😊
I've taken up brewing everything into alcohol, it's good fun tasting your crazy inventions, finding out what works and what doesn't, and as you say it's also economical, you get way more alcohol for your buck!
just seen this, great video, my advise and what I do is, work out a weight of sugar for each bottle in priming stage, mix with some of the mix, heat it, till the sugar dissolves, this way you keep the labour, let it cool then using a syringe squirt equal amounts into every bottle, works better than mixing sugar in cold beer
Try glass bottles instead of plastic. Plastic is not as sturdy as they used to be and many plastic water bottles recommend not to be refilled, quite possibly from toxins albeit small amounts. And plastic bottles react different to temperature. Nevertheless very informative and great video. Thank u for sharing! 💯
Rice and raisin wine, make a batch then add water, sugar, yeast again for a second lighter colour/flavour. Elder flower wine lovely sparkling light flavour. Elderberry wine, used to make gallons of the stuff, it got to the stage we never bottled it, used to drink from the demi john. Absolute rocket fuel, a few glasses you won't be walking home. Never had much success with beer, but as a lager drinker it needs to be cold, even commercial lagers don't taste as good warm, similar with IPA. Anyway thanks for video, made me think about starting up again. Happy drinking everyone. 🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷🍷🍸🍸🍸
When I was about twelve my dad and his friend who lived a few doors up used to make loads of different brews. Every Sunday afternoon my dad would go up his house for an afternoon tipple after dinner and he’d usually come back home for an hour sleep before getting up, showering and going to the pub in the evening. Anyway, I was allowed a few beers and could handle about 2 pints of standard, 4% beer and be tipsy but ok. Went up there one afternoon with my dad and had half a pint of this home brew and geeeeeezus - I was bladdered. It was meant to be beer and my dads friend would taste it and guess the strength and said it was about six percent. So I was allowed some. Found out a few days later it was more near to 25% after my father took his ABV testing thing (hydrometer?) up there. Yeah, my dad always took a tester up after that if I went with him. He didn’t mind me having a beer or two and tried to foster a healthy relationship with alcohol within me. But he always checked after that.
My dad about 30 years ago used to make a lot of home brew beers, lots of different kinds, he would wrap the barrel in in an electric blanket and drop a fish tank heater in, they would be finished within 2-3 days, the hydrometer would almost hit the bottom of the plastic barrel lol, then take off the heat and leave it to settle for a couple of days, at that point it only had a mild fiz, if you want more add a teaspoon of sugar to a pressurized bottle and let it brew for an extra week or so. Its a fun and easy hobby, shame im now tea total 🤔
I love Hop Gobbler, It's a canned kit type with extra malt and hops. If you are patient and wait as long as you can to drink your ale you get a much better flavour. It's so hard to wait. I had to make 120 pints before I was able to make enough to leave some 6 months but the improvement was remarkable. Winter is the best time for a brew as you can control the temp better and get a cleaner taste. Brewing is great as you can start simple but there are easy steps to do more without it being too much of a jump. You need a break from that sdr findfudge. Do you garden? Do any veggies?
Brings back many happy memories - there are plenty of great kits out there for every style of beer - I regularly brewed Belgium style beers as well as Aussie lagers but my favourite was Woodford Wherry clone - the majority of what I brewed was better than what I drank in the pub - had to stop when my old Liver began to complain - keep it up but ditch the single use plastic bottles as they can leach nasty chemicals into your brew - buy some 500ml glass and a capper - cheers
Just bought my first lager kit after being tempted for a while. Glad I found this video, I’ll watch it a little when I get started on mine in the next week or so. 👍🏻
You need proper cider apple varieties to make good cider. Dessert apples are useless unless you add a heck of a lot of crab apples. Varieties such as slack-ma-girdle and dabinette are first class.
If you pour the beer into a large jug you can get all the beer in one pour! If you look through the bottle as you pour, you should see the sediment start to get closer and closer to the top of the bottle, especially if you are above a white surface. The way you did it the beer left in the bottle is now cloudy with disturbed sediment. For bitter beers the best pour temperature is 12°C for a glass temp of 13°C once poured. You can achieve this by sticking a room temp bottle in the freezer for 17 mins.✅
Fred could you please do a video about brewing home brew in people’s bedrooms I did it myself and fell asleep for two days mate it turned out the carbon dioxide off making home brew in my small bedroom had put me to sleep I never thought it was dangerous especially with a lot of people keeping bedrooms warm in the winter and keeping the brew warm cheers
Was looking at that kit in the Range tonight. Will defo be going to get one. Only thing is, I want to use Grolsch bottles, good excuse to get stuck into some Grolsch though 🤣
Home brewing kits have a much better taste than most cans available on the market. A tip: - for secondary fermentation, get a second large bucket/fermenter, drain off your beer in to this which helps remove some of the sediment from the batch. Add 100g of sugar to a small amount of boiling water. Add this to your second bucket, gentle stir, then bottle. This provides an even amount of sugar throughout your batch and is a hell of a lot easier than adding a teaspoon to each bottle by hand.
There are a few other little bits that i do too - I don't brew up to the suggested 23 litres. I often brew to just under 22, as this provides a slightly better taste in my opinion. I also reduce the 1KG sugar to roughly 900/950g too, otherwise its a little too strong. A heat mat is also a good idea, as this helps keep the brew at a constant temp during fermentation. I leave my hydrometer in the brew the entire time too, so i don't need to take a sample to test, just lift the lid and have a peep! A bottling wand is also a must. You dont want to add oxygen at the bottling stage... Lots of oxygen when adding the cold water though. The yeast loves it! Also, with the silver malt bag, keep some boiling water back and when you've emptied as much malt as you can, tip some boiling water in and give it a mix to get every last bit of flavour!
If you want to improve your results.Use dextrose instead of ordinary sugar, get yourself a bottling wand to avoid oxidising when filling, get yourself some decent brown PET bottles. 🍻
the cane sugar is just as good ,dextrose speeds up fermentation, the man is in no hurry , why spend 5 pound on a kilo of dextro when its 1 pound a kilo for supermarket sugar it makes no difference to taste , dextro ferments faster thats all
@@paulsawtell3991 if your doing an easy on the taste buds lager yehh dextrose is the way ,beers .heavy, and stout are strong tasting bitter and sugar is good but in lager you get a tang which is sugar is a two ferment process first fructose to glucose ,dextrose is pure glucose and is straight ferment and little faster anyways thats the fun of home brew trial and error everybrew up is slightly different from the last
Constructive points are, use a brewing sugar, siphon off to remove from sediment into another 5gal container, do this 48 hours earlier, after floating a hydrometer, to get the strength, and when you pour tilt the glass at equal angle to the container of beer, and you will get a full pint 🍺, if you poured any can or bottle of beer/larger etc, you wouldn’t get anywhere near the amount of beer in glass, pointing out that it’s less carbonated than commercially brewed beverages, also buy yourself a small tripod with the ability to follow your movements. Good though!
Wilkos used to sell brown Pet bottles, keeps the sunlight out and stops spoilage. They also do proper brewing sugar and sterilising fluid. Not sure all the stores have closed now though but online is decent.
I used to make Geordie lager kits and bottle it , must have made hundreds of pints of the stuff, not the best tasting but it worked. I always used crown corks and brown glass bottles. To be honest you need a cellar ! helps no end with the storage !! I don't understand the bit about hours of work. If you are organised 40 pints of beer takes about I hour of work.
You would try making mead 3-4 jars of honey per gallon demijohn, as if you go up to 6 jars it's mega sweet for most people if in doubt use 3 jars cheapest honey might be Aldi squeezy honey and champagne yeast might a good one to start with, mine goes cloudy, but maybe you could do better, but be mega careful when using hot water in demijohns, I've cracked a few that way, maybe best to use plastic bucket to melt the honey first, hope you find this useful.
Nice video. Try doing a partial mash instead of using sugar. Will give you a far more tasty beer and does not require a lot of specialized equipment. Happy brewing.
Another tip, tilt the bottles and let the beer run down the inside edge, also turn the tap down to slower pour, you don't want oxygen getting into the beer after fermentation
I was way into this, at one time. Nothing beats liquor store buy a case or less than, or A six pack (if you have a job).. Even my 4.5 % beer. Moonshiners on Discovery. But anyway, cheers Fred (drink responsibly) . yeah, crazy, I have hops plants (in 1/2 whiskey barrels if they lived over MN winter) and grape plants (joke really). I did one thing with meat grinder and neighbors cranberries, (wasps surrounding(. It smelled like boo berry crunch kiddy cereal. I spring watered it down, Lavalin 118. Hey, it was FUN! I enjoyed myself. i'm no moonshiner! I think the flocculation gave me a headace.
Love videos like this, shows that "consensus" isn't always the be-all. Most would say adding hops post fermentation and by lifting the lid exposes beer to oxygen potentially causing it to go bad more quickly. That letting beer freefall into the bottles from the tap will seriously airate the beer, further adding oxygen + making beer go bad. Using clear bottles increases chances of "light struck" / "skunked" beer. Yet the proof is in the pudding; beer looked very good and obviously tasted good, and was great value. Winner! Only thing being, adding 10% extra water will reduce the ABV, strength of flavors etc But whether that helped / hindered is subjective. After all, got more beer out of it in the end. Could even experiment with different hops etc if wanting to tweak it. Perhaps get a bottle wand, very cheap. Takes longer to fill bottles, but drastically reduces airation (probably). Many say adding VitaminC to the beer at yeast pitch time helps avoid oxidation of beer. Circa 0.3g per Litre. Again, cheap to get hold of in powder form. Other than that, why change too much a process that you know works. Mega video, great result! Definitely giving this a try!
Yes, all grain is the only way. I've been doing so for 45 years and the other great thing about this method is that when you get the hang of it and what the ingredients can do you can devise your own recipes. I have been brewing from my own recipes for over 25 years except for one recently which was the original Whitbread's London porter, yes their actual recipe.
You dont need expensive sterilising powder. Use bottled bleach, cheap and easy. Buy a pressure barrel, much easier than cleaning and filling all those bottles. Also get an ispindel hydrometer, takes any guesswork out of when the fermentation has finished and calculates the abv. From the kits ive made the ipas always taste the best.
@@CB-RADIO-UK you have to dilute the bleach correctly, make sure it's unscented and it can still make the batch taste....well like bleach. Basically it takes more effort/consideration and the results can be worse - I'd stick with your current method, for the cost savings it's not worth it IMO. You could also just stick all the bottles and caps in the dishwasher but you'll run into the same problem as doing it with bleach!
Newcastle Brown Ale isn’t anything like it used to be since it has been brewed in Tadcaster. If you want a nice Brown Ale try the Northumberland Brown Ale kit and use Brown sugar half and half what it says in the instructions. It isn’t as good as Brown Ale used to be but if offered a pint of this or Newcastle Brown I would choose the Home brew every time. The price is much cheaper but that isn’t why I wood chose it. I also tried a Mexican cerveza kit and an Irish stout. Wilko’s used to sell a Sweet Newky Brown kit e Which was nothing like Brown but the Irish stout hit (dark Velvet) was nice. It’s a shame thar Wilko’s is gone now.Happy Brewing.
Oh and Fred thank you so much for all your videos I need to ask a quick question if that is ok I have recently ordered a baofang 888S but got that BF-88E I'm just wondering do you know how to get it on to scan mode they sent me the wrong one and don't know whether to keep it do I need a lead and a computer to program scam or can I do it through the side buttons thank you so much
Hi Axel. Yes your going to need the USB program lead. You can then download the program software which should allow you to activate the scan mode. Also once you have the lead you might be able to switch on 2w high power mode via CHIRP software. Enjoy.
@@CB-RADIO-UK Hey thank you for your kind words. I do have the Olywiz 826 and you don't need a lead for those but yeah ok thank you so so much, I have ordered one but don't have a computer can I do this on my phone or will I have to find somebody's computer or laptop or library for this I'm sorry to hassle you with so many questions but you're the main guy that I need to come to for all of this
In Saudi Arabia we would buy non-alcoholic beer and grape juice from the supermarket, add baking yeast and sugar and make our own. Desperate times called for Desperate measures 🤣🍺
Hi Fred. Most people buy beer in the pub to meet people and generally socialise. Also to get a good range of beers that are brewed to government standards. Also there may be free entertainment, food for sale, quizzes and bbq's. Home brew comes nowhere near this. That's why when it came along in the early 1970's it quickly fizzled out.
Been brewing beer for 6 years now & have never seen this myo beer kits, they are not on eBay or at the local brew shop ? Never heard of a taste test as I use a hydrometer for alcohol gravity. I brew beer / wine / Cider
You get a very good head / carbonation on your MYO brews. I'm wondering if it's because you're using granulated sugar. I'll be brewing the MYO stout shortly but will use a 50/50 mixture of dextrose and extra dark DME instead. Nerveless, hopefully I'll get the same amount of head / carbonation you've achieved.
As an age old home brewer
regarding the sediment in the bottle of the bottle. If you put a couple of bottles in the fridge foer 2 or 3 hours, when you come to pour, the sediment will have hardened and will ssay put at the bottom of the bottle.
I have noticed this too. I like to give my beers at least an overnight chilling. The better I do making a clear brew being bottled, the thinner the sediment is, hard to even see. I rack though.
Thats a great tip and makes perfect sense.
One pour ,usually does the trick,big glasses
Top tip.👍
100% correct about the sediment, and it was fizzy, I say fizzy/gassy as I only ever made lager so not sure about any other kinds of alcohol (Bitter/Mild/Cider/Wine etc).
I used to do Tom Caxton and one called Vinacan, the vinacan (at the time - mid 80's) was 50p for 40 pints plus sugar etc.
I preferred to bottle it as to put in a barrel, and yes it meant a little more work but it was well worth it in my opinion.
I brewed my first batch of lager while serving in the British Army in 1984. I became very popular with my new colleagues.
I did some brewing in the 90's ,but started again in the latter of 2022 ,done about eight 40 pint brews a mix of I P A lager , Mexican, and wheat beer ,I actually prefer my beer to shop beer and you need to take out a loan to drink in a pub these days 😊
I used to make beer many years ago and by accident, I forgot about the bottles and left them for a month. The results were much better then the standard time they suggest.
A little tip, squeeze the air out after filling up the bottle, this reduces the chance of oxidation. It will expand again after a couple of days as co2 is produced.
No one talking about those home made pasties!
They looked absolutely YUMMYYYYYYY! 💪👌😍
what about the gnocci for dinner, what did you have with it mate?? baby spinach was that? and also buffalo mozz? or burrata?
@@jamiew1664 Foreign muck .........
Frid in the shed your Myo beer kit is awesome 👌 👏 👍 🎉😊😊
i made one of these kits but mixed up kilos and pounds so i put 2 kilos instead of 2 pounds, took nearly 3 weeks to stop fermenting but wow what a pint it tasted great and had a real kick these kits are really forgiving.
I bet that packed a real punch! Any guesses what the ABV might've been on it?
@nate_river_ not a clue it was a Scottish style Heavy and should have been just 3.7abv but was way strongeri would guess around 6% but thats just a guess, really nice tasting pint though and as shown on video so easy to do. If you get a kit you like you can play around with it a bit, too bitter you can reduce the hops but the kits are so reasonably priced if you dont like it pour it away and try another.
I'll take two cases!
I used yo make these kits. The best I found was to use the malt extract from two kits plus 50% more sugar than suggested, to make the same quantity. This gave a much more full bodied finished product with about 8% ABV. Dangerous stuff 🥴🥴🤣🤣
@markthompson7843 thats the beauty of these kits they are relativly cheap so you can tinker about with them once you know what the basic taste is
Back in the day I brewed some stout. It was disgusting. Put it aside and a year later pulled it out because needed the bottles. Tried one and it was delicious.
Lol typical, bet you forgot the recipe by then😅
did the same (many years ago as a student) my home brew was never that good, then one day rooting through the empty bottles i found an unopened, un drunk bottle , tried it...OMG.. it was the best tasting beer iv ever drank!
I find to be drinkable beer needs 3 months at least.
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Buxton beer 😀
This was interesting, as I had no idea this is how it was made
Great video and a little different from your usual…those Pasties look very appealing too!😋
Good result Fred! Watching that brought back some good memories of when we were skint before my daughter was born many years ago. We’d sit drinking homebrew listening to music at weekends. Simpler times.
I used to use finings from a sachet to clear the beer more, not sure if they actually did much but those were the pre internet days when you got information from books 😂
73’s Franco
That is awesome!
On vinyl one hopes!
Haven't seen this one in my local Range shop, I'll have to keep an eye out for it. I did however, pick up 3 of their wine kits. I have the red one fermenting as we speak.
Hi James. Have not tried the wine kits myself but the beer kits seem bomb proof.
Instead of using sugar, add one third of the weight for sugar, and use honey instead. It will cost a little more (still a fraction of supermarket or pub prices) but will make the end result so much better.
So kind of like a hybrid beer and mead?
@@nathangamble125 It's called Braggott, but yes, it is a small easy change but makes a huge difference. It can take a little longer to ferment out, but the difference isn't big enough to worry about. and the resulting drink is worth may times the additional time.
I used to make wine from some grapes in the garden, I used a packet of sugar as well and I thought I was cheating. But it tasted lovely. I used a liquidiser to mash the grapes down and yeast from the chemist. I'd get about 10 gallons and maybe bottle it or not depending on how I felt about all the sterilising and corking of wine bottles. It was great at a BBQ though to put a demijon on the table and say 'there you go - enjoy!' :-) I did try Beer but I drank it too quick :-)
Used to make beer from a Boots kit which had live liquid yeast that you could use again, tasted great & never failed.
Me too.😃
And Me, always had a batch on the go, 40 pints of Boots Continental Lager, ( made with liquid yeast), unfortunately had to stop as I had constant callers 7 days a week, after free booze.
I think my dad tried that once in the 70's. I recall there was some mother related fallout ...
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Lol.
I used boots kits as well, really good quality beer. Used to have a couple of pressure barrels so always had beer on the go and never ran dry. Happy days
I’ve made loads of homebrews over the decades and some kits are pretty good. One of my favourite brews is cider. Literally just the cheapest apple juice you can find a little bit of honey and yeast. Stick it in a sterilised demijohn and you will have some pretty potent cider in a few weeks. Alcoholic ginger beer is another easy one. Perfect for making super deadly Moscow mules! 😂😂
I'm going to give it a go. The only problem I'll have is to have five of them at different stages on the go being a thirsty 40-50 pint a week guy, it'd save a few quid.
Great video, thanks Fred
If you like a good drink you can save a fortune. My best tip is make sure you clean and sterilize everything well.
40-50 pints a week? Jesus 😂😂😂
Use pressure barrels instead of all those bottles.
I think you need to go AA
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Those kits look great, I'll grab a couple of those.
Lager has to be cold conditioned to get the distinctive crisp taste so I usually make bitter with Geordie kits, never tried making stout so I'll give that one a go.
A hydrometer will tell you when it's safe to be bottled, especially when using glass.
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On recommendation I purchased a Boots lager kit. After a few weeks I tried it and it was awful. If I remember correctly, I popped some sugar in left it for quite a while.
Anyway, grabbed a couple of bottles one night, flipped the top off, and it nearly smashed the neck of the bottle! My wife and I drank them and when we came to stand up to go to bed, we could hardly walk and laughed all the way up the stairs, as we tried to get to the top.
We often laugh about it - but boy was it strong!😂
How's that beginner blues guitar coming along?
You've got me interested again. I used to brew my own when it worked out at 10p a pint and the extract came in tins. Congrats, you've got me converted again. 😁
Very interesting. The husband of a woman I chatted to on Two Metres used to homebrew beer. Growing up in Bexleyheath there was a vacuum cleaner spares and repair shop that sold home brew beer kits on the side.
used to do home brewing with my dad years ago. We used the old Alpine pop bottles glass 2 ltr. Unican lager is what we brewed. We had a thermostat which kept the brew at temperature while fermenting, usually a week was long enough. Once bottled keep in warm place for secondary fermentation,then keep cool. We also used to do one pour into a litre jug,because u always disturb the sediment when u pour half the bottle.
Very cool!
Great vid and great hobby to get into! Makes me want to get back into it! Couple of things I noticed.. the kit should be 23 litres total, I think, so if you made it up to 26 litres (after already adding 3 litres of hot water) it’ll be a lower abv (but still tasty) brew at the end. Also, you’re introducing a lot of oxygen after fermentation, which massively speeds up making the brew stale, so it’s good to attach a food safe hose to your tap (or better yet, a product called ‘little bottler’) so that you’re filling from the bottom up without splashing a lot in the bottle. If you’re drinking them all within a few weeks, you’ll be fine, but if you’re storing them longer, you might notice them starting to taste stale. Keep up the good work though and getting affordable, tasty beer in peoples minds!!
Hey that's awesome and you must have had some practise as I thought the head would overflow but it just stayed in the glass well done
Hi there how much did it cost for the kit fred
The beer kit is around £12.70 plus £4 P&P or about £15 in the store.
I used to make home brewed beer and wine many years ago but lost interest, you may have just rekindled that. A few people here say to use dextrose instead of plain sugar, I always used invert sugar which I used to make myself and was easy. We drink lots of sparkling water so your idea of using these is brilliant. Someone here also mentioned microplastics from the bottles, well believe me you are far more likely to get microplastic contamination from your clothing than those PET bottles that are used for gazillions of products today.
speaking as a scientist, 100% true re microplastics. Don't sweat them, there are a shit ton more things in your system to worry about than microplastics.
Put the syrup in a pot of boiling water for ten minutes its easier to pour out!
We would bring along 5 gallon water containers when we would hike way out in the country. When we found a spring or a well with good tasting water we would take jugs of that water home to make the best beer we ever had! The water also makes great, coffee, tea and orange juice too. It's free if you don't mind taking a nice walk.
I’ve never brewed lager or stout as always thought I’d need a pressureized barrel but watching this makes me relize I donnt lol….i love making my wines off all the fruit I produce from my allotment…. Hopefully the range delivers..as I did go in one of the shops and couldn’t find any kits….bitby bit I’ve found ways to make wine making easier and faster …I do have some videos on my channel ..( IM IN THE SHED )… think I may have to do videos like yours of the whole process in one video as I do them in parts …great video and easy to follow unlike loads I see that make it so complicated..
Don’t drink anymore but I made my own beer for years. I’d offer friends visiting a beer and see them pull a face…. until they tried it and were shocked how good it was. Always used malt extract instead of sugar which I found to be much better flavour wise. Biggest thing is thorough sterilisation as mentioned in the video.
malt makes no difference to sugar, big myth
@ You could well be right but I tried both and preferred the brew made with malt. The owner of the home brew shop I used was a great salesman though and of course wanted to sell as much stuff to me as he possibly could.
@@ianashton1593 there are many factors, lookup the experiments for sugar vs malt in brewing forums
Can i ask? how do you sterilise the bottles? i was thinking boil them right? but obviously he hasnt done that as the labels would have come off. so how did he do it i wonder.?
@ I used to use that stuff for sterilising babies bottles, I think it’s called Milton. Didn’t use plastic bottles when I was making home brew but probably not so easy to find glass bottles with a screw top now.
You have a very nice shed, Fred!
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Did a lot of home brew back in the 90s - mostly wine but a bit of beer, too. Had the 40L fermenter and a "Beersphere" for pressurized finishing. The kits were OK but may have improved. Mostly I experimented with mad combinations like Marmalade Beer, Tea and Raisin Wine, Lemon Mead. The wine I did in demijohns. Some of it was very vigorous and had a habit of restarting if it got a bit warm. Damson Wine comes to mind! It's fun as long as you have a bit of space including somewhere cool.
The trouble was I kept drinking it!
Damson wine is the best!
Try not to open your brew until it's ready, if you need to test gravity or try it, use the tap. If bacteria gets into it it can ruin the batch.
Also, if you store the bottle upside down for the first few weeks, the worst of the sediment will settle in the lid, then very very gently turn the bottles over and store without disturbing them until you're ready to drink, do not store them in your fridge door, they'll be constantly disturbed and won't clear up, ideally a secondary fridge is best. Also try and keep them for closer to two or three months before drinking. Then your beer should end up almost clear and golden rather than amber.
Hi fred my friends dad made some, i had only 2 pint and it made me very tipsy. He doubled up on all the ingredients but kept the same amount of water. 😊😊😊
I've taken up brewing everything into alcohol, it's good fun tasting your crazy inventions, finding out what works and what doesn't, and as you say it's also economical, you get way more alcohol for your buck!
Looks good! Beer and radio together 😂 I would like to try the stout kit.
just seen this, great video, my advise and what I do is, work out a weight of sugar for each bottle in priming stage, mix with some of the mix, heat it, till the sugar dissolves, this way you keep the labour, let it cool then using a syringe squirt equal amounts into every bottle, works better than mixing sugar in cold beer
Great tip!
Try glass bottles instead of plastic. Plastic is not as sturdy as they used to be and many plastic water bottles recommend not to be refilled, quite possibly from toxins albeit small amounts. And plastic bottles react different to temperature. Nevertheless very informative and great video. Thank u for sharing! 💯
Rice and raisin wine, make a batch then add water, sugar, yeast again for a second lighter colour/flavour.
Elder flower wine lovely sparkling light flavour.
Elderberry wine, used to make gallons of the stuff, it got to the stage we never bottled it, used to drink from the demi john. Absolute rocket fuel, a few glasses you won't be walking home.
Never had much success with beer, but as a lager drinker it needs to be cold, even commercial lagers don't taste as good warm, similar with IPA. Anyway thanks for video, made me think about starting up again. Happy drinking everyone. 🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷🍷🍸🍸🍸
When I was about twelve my dad and his friend who lived a few doors up used to make loads of different brews. Every Sunday afternoon my dad would go up his house for an afternoon tipple after dinner and he’d usually come back home for an hour sleep before getting up, showering and going to the pub in the evening.
Anyway, I was allowed a few beers and could handle about 2 pints of standard, 4% beer and be tipsy but ok.
Went up there one afternoon with my dad and had half a pint of this home brew and geeeeeezus - I was bladdered.
It was meant to be beer and my dads friend would taste it and guess the strength and said it was about six percent. So I was allowed some.
Found out a few days later it was more near to 25% after my father took his ABV testing thing (hydrometer?) up there.
Yeah, my dad always took a tester up after that if I went with him. He didn’t mind me having a beer or two and tried to foster a healthy relationship with alcohol within me. But he always checked after that.
Looks good, mate. You've made a pretty fair job of that. Just wish I'd the patience to wait 30 days for a pint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My dad about 30 years ago used to make a lot of home brew beers, lots of different kinds, he would wrap the barrel in in an electric blanket and drop a fish tank heater in, they would be finished within 2-3 days, the hydrometer would almost hit the bottom of the plastic barrel lol, then take off the heat and leave it to settle for a couple of days, at that point it only had a mild fiz, if you want more add a teaspoon of sugar to a pressurized bottle and let it brew for an extra week or so. Its a fun and easy hobby, shame im now tea total 🤔
good video, came out well , enjoy..
I love Hop Gobbler, It's a canned kit type with extra malt and hops. If you are patient and wait as long as you can to drink your ale you get a much better flavour. It's so hard to wait. I had to make 120 pints before I was able to make enough to leave some 6 months but the improvement was remarkable. Winter is the best time for a brew as you can control the temp better and get a cleaner taste. Brewing is great as you can start simple but there are easy steps to do more without it being too much of a jump. You need a break from that sdr findfudge. Do you garden? Do any veggies?
Hi Don. Mrs Fred grows all types of veggies in pots. Recently sprouted Mung Beans.
I done my homebrew in my dads shed ,was a full blown alcoholic by 12
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Brings back many happy memories - there are plenty of great kits out there for every style of beer - I regularly brewed Belgium style beers as well as Aussie lagers but my favourite was Woodford Wherry clone - the majority of what I brewed was better than what I drank in the pub - had to stop when my old Liver began to complain - keep it up but ditch the single use plastic bottles as they can leach nasty chemicals into your brew - buy some 500ml glass and a capper - cheers
Wherry was a great beer in kit form
Just bought my first lager kit after being tempted for a while. Glad I found this video, I’ll watch it a little when I get started on mine in the next week or so. 👍🏻
How did it turn out?
Good?
Great video! I'm more of a cider drinker so I planted a few apple trees last year to have a go at home brewing. Looks like fun and saves a few quid!
You can make scrumpy with 4 litres of apple juice and a demijohn mate
You need proper cider apple varieties to make good cider. Dessert apples are useless unless you add a heck of a lot of crab apples. Varieties such as slack-ma-girdle and dabinette are first class.
@@Rickypp And then you can pour it down the sink because it tastes disgusting.
@@paulsawtell3991 depends on the juice used
@@paulsawtell3991 nope tastes good and is a lot simpler to do.Pasteurised apple juice,half a mug of strong tea and champagne yeast.
If you pour the beer into a large jug you can get all the beer in one pour! If you look through the bottle as you pour, you should see the sediment start to get closer and closer to the top of the bottle, especially if you are above a white surface.
The way you did it the beer left in the bottle is now cloudy with disturbed sediment.
For bitter beers the best pour temperature is 12°C for a glass temp of 13°C once poured. You can achieve this by sticking a room temp bottle in the freezer for 17 mins.✅
Had a IPA kit from the range before and it was amazing
The ipa is excelent, my local range stopped stocking it.
Great value when on offer at £12.50.
Fred could you please do a video about brewing home brew in people’s bedrooms I did it myself and fell asleep for two days mate it turned out the carbon dioxide off making home brew in my small bedroom had put me to sleep I never thought it was dangerous especially with a lot of people keeping bedrooms warm in the winter and keeping the brew warm cheers
Was looking at that kit in the Range tonight. Will defo be going to get one. Only thing is, I want to use Grolsch bottles, good excuse to get stuck into some Grolsch though 🤣
Home brewing kits have a much better taste than most cans available on the market.
A tip: - for secondary fermentation, get a second large bucket/fermenter, drain off your beer in to this which helps remove some of the sediment from the batch. Add 100g of sugar to a small amount of boiling water. Add this to your second bucket, gentle stir, then bottle. This provides an even amount of sugar throughout your batch and is a hell of a lot easier than adding a teaspoon to each bottle by hand.
Great tip.
There are a few other little bits that i do too - I don't brew up to the suggested 23 litres. I often brew to just under 22, as this provides a slightly better taste in my opinion. I also reduce the 1KG sugar to roughly 900/950g too, otherwise its a little too strong.
A heat mat is also a good idea, as this helps keep the brew at a constant temp during fermentation.
I leave my hydrometer in the brew the entire time too, so i don't need to take a sample to test, just lift the lid and have a peep!
A bottling wand is also a must. You dont want to add oxygen at the bottling stage...
Lots of oxygen when adding the cold water though. The yeast loves it!
Also, with the silver malt bag, keep some boiling water back and when you've emptied as much malt as you can, tip some boiling water in and give it a mix to get every last bit of flavour!
goofd job mate, I'm always into making your own stuff and you've sold me on this
If you want to improve your results.Use dextrose instead of ordinary sugar, get yourself a bottling wand to avoid oxidising when filling, get yourself some decent brown PET bottles.
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Great tips. Many thanks.
the cane sugar is just as good ,dextrose speeds up fermentation, the man is in no hurry , why spend 5 pound on a kilo of dextro when its 1 pound a kilo for supermarket sugar it makes no difference to taste , dextro ferments faster thats all
If you really want to improve you do a proper mash and leave kits well alone.
@@theresnobodyhere5778 It's right; sugar ferments out completely and leave no residual flavours.
@@paulsawtell3991 if your doing an easy on the taste buds lager yehh dextrose is the way ,beers .heavy, and stout are strong tasting bitter and sugar is good but in lager you get a tang which is sugar is a two ferment process first fructose to glucose ,dextrose is pure glucose and is straight ferment and little faster anyways thats the fun of home brew trial and error everybrew up is slightly different from the last
That looked nice to my eyes well done youth given me the confidence to go ahead brew something for myself. Atb Michael
great video mate! gonna give this a go..
Constructive points are, use a brewing sugar, siphon off to remove from sediment into another 5gal container, do this 48 hours earlier, after floating a hydrometer, to get the strength, and when you pour tilt the glass at equal angle to the container of beer, and you will get a full pint 🍺, if you poured any can or bottle of beer/larger etc, you wouldn’t get anywhere near the amount of beer in glass, pointing out that it’s less carbonated than commercially brewed beverages, also buy yourself a small tripod with the ability to follow your movements.
Good though!
Wilkos used to sell brown Pet bottles, keeps the sunlight out and stops spoilage. They also do proper brewing sugar and sterilising fluid. Not sure all the stores have closed now though but online is decent.
Range stores have wilko products now, I'll have a look!
Good idea, the Range, yeah I will look too 🍺.
When you said i should get 20+ litres of beer that felt great 👍
I used to make Geordie lager kits and bottle it , must have made hundreds of pints of the stuff, not the best tasting but it worked. I always used crown corks and brown glass bottles. To be honest you need a cellar ! helps no end with the storage !! I don't understand the bit about hours of work. If you are organised 40 pints of beer takes about I hour of work.
You would try making mead 3-4 jars of honey per gallon demijohn, as if you go up to 6 jars it's mega sweet for most people if in doubt use 3 jars cheapest honey might be Aldi squeezy honey and champagne yeast might a good one to start with, mine goes cloudy, but maybe you could do better, but be mega careful when using hot water in demijohns, I've cracked a few that way, maybe best to use plastic bucket to melt the honey first, hope you find this useful.
Looks good, but for goodness sake, would you ever tilt your glass when you’re pouring the dam beer!
Calm down ffs
Nice video.
Try doing a partial mash instead of using sugar. Will give you a far more tasty beer and does not require a lot of specialized equipment.
Happy brewing.
Another tip, tilt the bottles and let the beer run down the inside edge, also turn the tap down to slower pour, you don't want oxygen getting into the beer after fermentation
Frid in the shed I learn lot from you about cbs radios
I use vodka instead of water in the air-lock. That way you can be sure you're not getting an infection into your brew.
Nice one.
Brewing is fun😊
I was way into this, at one time. Nothing beats liquor store buy a case or less than, or A six pack (if you have a job).. Even my 4.5 % beer. Moonshiners on Discovery. But anyway, cheers Fred (drink responsibly) . yeah, crazy, I have hops plants (in 1/2 whiskey barrels if they lived over MN winter) and grape plants (joke really). I did one thing with meat grinder and neighbors cranberries, (wasps surrounding(. It smelled like boo berry crunch kiddy cereal. I spring watered it down, Lavalin 118. Hey, it was FUN! I enjoyed myself. i'm no moonshiner! I think the flocculation gave me a headace.
Love videos like this, shows that "consensus" isn't always the be-all.
Most would say adding hops post fermentation and by lifting the lid exposes beer to oxygen potentially causing it to go bad more quickly.
That letting beer freefall into the bottles from the tap will seriously airate the beer, further adding oxygen + making beer go bad.
Using clear bottles increases chances of "light struck" / "skunked" beer.
Yet the proof is in the pudding; beer looked very good and obviously tasted good, and was great value. Winner!
Only thing being, adding 10% extra water will reduce the ABV, strength of flavors etc
But whether that helped / hindered is subjective. After all, got more beer out of it in the end.
Could even experiment with different hops etc if wanting to tweak it.
Perhaps get a bottle wand, very cheap. Takes longer to fill bottles, but drastically reduces airation (probably).
Many say adding VitaminC to the beer at yeast pitch time helps avoid oxidation of beer. Circa 0.3g per Litre.
Again, cheap to get hold of in powder form.
Other than that, why change too much a process that you know works. Mega video, great result! Definitely giving this a try!
Lager is made under cold temperatures so it won't have a lager taste unless you chill it during fermentation.
That looks really good for a home made beer, well done
Thanks. I had a go.
ok gonna make my own beer now too :P thanks for the inspiration.
Well done. Looks awesome!
Dude, best use a hydrometer to measure accurate sugar level
Enjoyable video. I moved over to all grain brewing a few years back but seeing this brought back years if kit brewing and that taste of kit twang.
Yes, all grain is the only way. I've been doing so for 45 years and the other great thing about this method is that when you get the hang of it and what the ingredients can do you can devise your own recipes. I have been brewing from my own recipes for over 25 years except for one recently which was the original Whitbread's London porter, yes their actual recipe.
If its got the taste similar to a pale ale im sure chilling it first would improve the flavour.
10:38 you can use that stuff (barm) to make bread
Lots of negative comments. Nice job. 😃👍
You dont need expensive sterilising powder. Use bottled bleach, cheap and easy.
Buy a pressure barrel, much easier than cleaning and filling all those bottles.
Also get an ispindel hydrometer, takes any guesswork out of when the fermentation has finished and calculates the abv.
From the kits ive made the ipas always taste the best.
Are you sure about bleach ?
@@CB-RADIO-UK you have to dilute the bleach correctly, make sure it's unscented and it can still make the batch taste....well like bleach. Basically it takes more effort/consideration and the results can be worse - I'd stick with your current method, for the cost savings it's not worth it IMO. You could also just stick all the bottles and caps in the dishwasher but you'll run into the same problem as doing it with bleach!
Id put a bottling wand onto the fermentor tap. Its going to avoid adding oxygen into the beer that could add off flavors and oxidation.
great video mate going to try this :D
Have fun
It looks great 👍
Newcastle Brown Ale isn’t anything like it used to be since it has been brewed in Tadcaster. If you want a nice Brown Ale try the Northumberland Brown Ale kit and use Brown sugar half and half what it says in the instructions. It isn’t as good as Brown Ale used to be but if offered a pint of this or Newcastle Brown I would choose the Home brew every time. The price is much cheaper but that isn’t why I wood chose it. I also tried a Mexican cerveza kit and an Irish stout. Wilko’s used to sell a Sweet Newky Brown kit e
Which was nothing like Brown but the Irish stout hit (dark Velvet) was nice. It’s a shame thar Wilko’s is gone now.Happy Brewing.
A good decent beer for the price, great entry level brew, well worth it😊
Coopers European lager is better and cheaper.
MYO Irish Stout is superb. Better than more expensive kits, and why would you pay £2 a bottle at the supermarket or £5 a pint in the pub?
What’s opening time tomorrow please ?
Great tutorial. Thanks😊
Oh and Fred thank you so much for all your videos I need to ask a quick question if that is ok I have recently ordered a baofang 888S but got that BF-88E I'm just wondering do you know how to get it on to scan mode they sent me the wrong one and don't know whether to keep it do I need a lead and a computer to program scam or can I do it through the side buttons thank you so much
Hi Axel. Yes your going to need the USB program lead. You can then download the program software which should allow you to activate the scan mode. Also once you have the lead you might be able to switch on 2w high power mode via CHIRP software. Enjoy.
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Hey thank you for your kind words.
I do have the Olywiz 826 and you don't need a lead for those but yeah ok thank you so so much, I have ordered one but don't have a computer can I do this on my phone or will I have to find somebody's computer or laptop or library for this I'm sorry to hassle you with so many questions but you're the main guy that I need to come to for all of this
Ive only used a PC via USB. Might be able to use a phone. You would need to google. Cheers
Fantastic Video 🍺
Thank you! Cheers!
In Saudi Arabia we would buy non-alcoholic beer and grape juice from the supermarket, add baking yeast and sugar and make our own. Desperate times called for Desperate measures 🤣🍺
Hi Fred. Most people buy beer in the pub to meet people and generally socialise. Also to get a good range of beers that are brewed to government standards. Also there may be free entertainment, food for sale, quizzes and bbq's. Home brew comes nowhere near this. That's why when it came along in the early 1970's it quickly fizzled out.
Ah yes it did back then. However then COVID came along and things were not so cheerful at the pub and homebrew kits started up again.
@@CB-RADIO-UK I can see your point but I prefer the pub.
Awsome, I wouldnt have added tap water though.
I enjoyed this video thank you
You should use brewing sugar, it'll taste better
my dad used to do home brew in the 60s and it was total crap thick sediment in the bottom put me off for life
Great stuff!
Looks good
Been brewing beer for 6 years now & have never seen this myo beer kits, they are not on eBay or at the local brew shop ? Never heard of a taste test as I use a hydrometer for alcohol gravity. I brew beer / wine / Cider
You get a very good head / carbonation on your MYO brews. I'm wondering if it's because you're using granulated sugar. I'll be brewing the MYO stout shortly but will use a 50/50 mixture of dextrose and extra dark DME instead. Nerveless, hopefully I'll get the same amount of head / carbonation you've achieved.
Yes it may be the sugar. Very lively beer.
If you want a foaming head, use some flaked barley.
A remember making barley wine it was rocket fuel ,2 pints and you new you’d had a couple 👍🇬🇧
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