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[RouletteGhost]

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[Turner]

A lot of rich looking food.

Reminds me of my home brewing

I was obsessed. Got it to a professional scientific level. Made a mash tun and boiler.

I could brew real ale of a high quality.

The down side is 40 pints of strong 5.5% beer to get rid of every week

My Guru was Dave Line and his "big book of brewing" and " Brewing beers like those you buy"

I nearly nailed Guinness from that last book.

He died from liver failure at 48

As an interesting footnote, when I read the history of Brewing (mash temperature is 64-65C btw)

the book mentioned that a mist appears on the surface just at that temperature.

Before thermometers, thats how they got the mash temperature right.

One night, I broke my thermometer, and completed the brew using this ancient method

[RouletteGhost]

Id likento do the beer thing next

Brew high quality IPAs

The liver part scares me

[Turner]

Id likento do the beer thing next

Brew high quality IPAs

The liver part scares me

If you want any advice, I spent 20 years becoming an expert.

No wikki or google. All in my head

[RouletteGhost]

If you want any advice, I spent 20 years becoming an expert.

No wikki or google. All in my head

I was going to buy a beer making kit

Anything you want to share id appreciate

I am into IPAs

[Turner]

I was going to buy a beer making kit

Anything you want to share id appreciate

I am into IPAs

All you will get from a kit is disappointment.

You have to mash with real malted barley and boil with real hops to get near to it.

Its a big commitment

I wasnt producing decent stuff for years.

I did kits and my first real mash wasnt brilliant, but was far better than any kit

There are dry kits with malt extract and hops in a bag. These arnt so bad, but steer clear from wet syrup kits in a tin can.

If they are asking you to add sugar, its gonna taste like piss

[RouletteGhost]

Ill read on it then and skip the kits

Hops 

In my fridge now

People say american beer sucks

What people do not know is america is booming with microbrewerys such as the pic i attached

[Nick-the-Greek]

I remember my dad brewing his own beer back in the late 60's early 70's.

Geordie Homebrew kit was basically a big bag of hops that he boiled up on the cooker for hours - the smell flooded the house and was great.

The plastic bucket we used for fermentation lived in the airing cupboard and when it was ready we bottled it in the bathroom with old cider bottles lines up the bath and me in charge of the syphoning tube - one level teaspoon of sugar in each bottle and then filled up with beer.

The result was a very strong dark ale that tasted superb - I started young as I was only in my early teens at the time!

Definitely avoid the syrup concentrate now though.

Nick

[Turner]

Geordie kit....remember it well
Reasonable results

[Nick-the-Greek]

All Geordie do now are the liquid kits and you have to add about 1kg of sugar!

Anyone sell the bags of hops anymore as I'd love to get a brew on the go even as a one off for old times sake?

Nick

[RouletteGhost]

The liver

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Lobster roll

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Mother inlaw took us to belgian restaurant for upcoming wedding anniversary

Every belgian beer you can imagine. 10 pages worth.

And mussels.

[denzie]

Hmmmm mussels. It's the season now 

And of course the beer. It's always a good season for that 

[RouletteGhost]

My goal is to get my hands on westvleteren 12

In the US they go for 50 a bottle

Actually denzie if you get me some from the monestary ill pay for your gas