[The Relic]

anyone interested in this topic

[Rosemary]

Dan makes it from  kit. It's quite nice but he can't get the rpessure to maintain, so it's a bit flat and has to be ladled out of the barrel.

Couple of glasses, though, and it's fine.

[cmorrell]

I can't stand beer (now tried well over 60 from bog standard stuff to good quality micro-brewery stuff) .. but I'm interested in making my own cider .. at some point.

[doganjo]

I still have 5 demi-johns and some kit up in my shed in Aberdeenshire - must take them back next time I'm up there and have a go.  John was the wine maker but I'm willing to try it.

[The Relic]

im doing mine from a kit at the moment do a couple more batches then move onto extract. was going to ask a question regarding cloudyness.

i bottle it in old coke/orange 2l bottles, doing it this way i have to prime each bottle with sugar. when i first open and pour the beer it is quite clear, its only as i get past halfway that i start to get the cloudyness in my glass. 
my question is will i always have this in my glass as i am priming the bottles as opposed to priming in a demi-john or secondary container and bottling from that.

[Fluffywelshsheep]

i really want to start this up again got all the kit to do it (in the loft ) am gona go hunting for fruit and see what I can get.

Linz

[pierre]

... yeah ...

... I do it all the time ... great results, if fact just went te Brew Shop in Glasgow on Tuesday to pick up some more kits....

.... I use a brand called Coopers, they are Australian, but don't hold that against them, no, but a great range ....

..... if your beer is flat in a keg, get your-self a Sodastream gas cylinder, and top the top-pressure up that way ....

....... hick ..... hick ....

 

[sellickbhoy]

I planted 8 apple trees a back in early spring/late winter, so in a couple of years i hope for a glut of apples that'll need to be used up - there is only so much apple crumble, tart, pie and even raw apples you can eat. So, i think i'll be looking into the cider making process at some point in the future.

[The Relic]

yea i go for the coopers also im down to a liter so i'll have to be making more.

noticed the longer you leave it the more it keeps its head when u pour it.

[blackdubh]

Go easy on the home brew boys and girls. the first few glasses are rather innocuous but after some time you may begin to em oh er.....

[sandy]

I would love to make some Nettel Beer, I pick them for the chickens but not enough for Beer, it must take ages to pick enough nettles? I woundered if you could pick some each day and freeze them then use the frozen ones? Maybe they would be very watery, I already have a freezer filled with Brambles and a few Raspberriies from last year and loads of wild garlic from this year, that too is watery but useful in curries etc. CHEERS, I could do with some home brew tonight.....how hot it's been!!!!

[The Relic]

all you need for a small brew (10l-15l) is 1 plastic bag full. if you get a good cluster of nettles you will pick them in 15 mins

[sandy]

May have a go, I love forraging, the countryside is my fave supermarket!!!!! hicup hicup!!!!!

[The Relic]

whats good to forage in june

[sandy]

I hopeing to collect wild strawberries if the birds don't get thier first, otherwise, loads of leafy things for salads and herbs, Silverweed roots as potatoes, ground ivy,primrose and violet to crystalize or put into salads, loads of stuff and of course nettles, I bought the Book " Food for Free" by Richard mabey, my brother belong to a group of botinists in Northamptonshire who compiled the Flora and Forna of Great Britain and they were asked by Richard Maybe for all the information that goes into the book, I love it. My brother studies fungus etc Micrologist, but I would not dare eat them as some have toxins that stay in your liver and build up. Buy the book, I love it, I could spend all day collecting stuff...Food for free, all I need is a gun and a fishing rod and I would have a great freezer full.