How To Brew Home Made Beer/Stout/Ale - (For Scooby Killer)

[jamied]

A simple method to brew a very nice 25 pints of Strong Irish Ale @ 5.5%

Kit Needed:

Brew Barrel = £12.50
Young's u Brew Fermentation Barrel Screwtop 25l | Homebrew Accessories | | Home Brewing from Wilkinson Plus
Plastic Pipe to syphon
Glass Bottles (bulmers ones are perfect) = free from a goob pub or mate
Capping Tool = £10
Young's u Brew Bottle Capper | Homebrew Accessories | | Home Brewing from Wilkinson Plus
Caps = £1 for 50
Young's u Brew Crown Caps Metal x 50 | Homebrew Accessories | | Home Brewing from Wilkinson Plus
Air Lock = £2.20
Young's u Brew Handy Airlock with Rubber Bung x 2 | Homebrew Accessories | | Home Brewing from Wilkinson Plus

All of the above can be got from Wilkinsons for very cheap (prices above)

Now, you can get a tin of brew ingrediance for about £14 which is perfect and best for a starter, and also some brew suger for about £6 which will make your beer taste perfect but you can use normal sugar.
Edme Beer Making Kit Superbrew Gold Irish Stout 1.814kg | Beers | | Home Brewing from Wilkinson Plus
Geordie Beerkit Enhancer 1kg | Beers | | Home Brewing from Wilkinson Plus

To brew is simple, but you must clean and sterilise everything you use as a golden rule. you can get steralising powder from most brew shops, chemists ect.

If using a can of malt extract from a brew shop, open the top and stand in some boiled water for about 10 mins to sofen it up.

Tip the brew sugar into the brew barrel, then tip in the extract, add 3 ltrs of boiling water and stir till all disoved, then add 22 ltrs of cold water and stir, put on lid and air lock and stand in a warm place.
Next day the brew should be at room temp, add the yeast and the stir again in 5 mins.
Leave to brew for about 5 - 7 days, you will see when it stops brewing by using a hydrometer (can be talked about later) or watch the surface and no bubbles should be rising.

Get you glass bottels and again, clean, sterilise and rinse.
Put half a tea spoon of caster sugar in each bottle, this will help priming (second brew in bottle for fizz and head)
sython the beer from the barrel into the bottels (don't suck the crap up off the bottom)
Cap the bottles and store in a warm place for 3 - 4 days then move to a cool place for 10 days (3 months would be much better)

then......drink

so in total to start it will cost you £45 - £50 after that each brew will cost about £20.
When you get in to using raw ingredience you will find it much cheaper but a lot harder to work with.

[scooby-KILLER]

legend man al have a read of the above now then go looking for a kit!

[paddy>gsi/turbo]

in depth thread needed.

are the beer kits good?

[scooby-KILLER]

only 1 way to find out paddy i guess

im going to do some home work and bust jamied's head until he stops relying lol

[Nemesis]

Jamie's wine is legendary!!! Properly full of flavour without any of the preservatives as far as I know!!!

And a free sample comes with every job done by him at JADE performance. So my tip for the day is, get a wiper blade fitted for 50p and get pissed!

[Violet]

[scooby-KILLER]

nice i didnt know he done the wine as well, i like a good bottle of red and so does the missus

[Violet]

Can you actually get home-brew wine that isn't under 110 proof?

[jamied]

beer kits are good, very good for a starter, once you get into it then you will find how easy it is and try to make different things, at the moment i have or part brewing...

Beers, Stouts & ales:
60 Pints Strong Irish Stout
40 Pint milk Stout
40 Pints Guiness
180 Pints Mild Bitter
80 Pints or german larger (assorted into 20 pint lots)

Wines:

10 ltr Grapefruit & Saultana wine
5 ltr Red Grape wine
5 ltr White Grape Wine
5 ltr Ribeanna wine
5 ltr Black current and Damson Wine
5 ltr Elderberry wine

Sprits (20 - 22%):
5 ltr Cherry & Plum sherry
3 ltr Orange & Chilly Pepper
3 ltr Lemon & Pear

[jamied]

Jamie's wine is legendary!!! Properly full of flavour without any of the preservatives as far as I know!!!

And a free sample comes with every job done by him at JADE performance. So my tip for the day is, get a wiper blade fitted for 50p and get pissed!

lol...would be good but JADE has gone now, sold it all off to start up the photography business which i should have done years ago as better money and no oily hands.

[scooby-KILLER]

where the hell do you find all the time??

[jamied]

where the hell do you find all the time??

i always have a monday off due to working a most weekends, the start of the brew process takes a few hours esp with the wine (crushing, juicing & filtering) but once you have the yeast working it just keep the temputure at the set levels and it will run its course.

Bitters, stouts and ales are easy and can be made in 2 weeks, wine take the time and a few tricks can make some stunning wines and you can use a lot of things in wine.

I tend to make the wines over xmas and in the summer, takes about half a day to do it, stuff like cider can take all day.

[scooby-KILLER]

ah ok chap what about lager is that just the same principle as beer but different ingredients?

is there a kit on the wilkinson site or do you have to buy individual items?

will get a starter kit gathered up and run with that but would love to give the wine a shot but learn to crawl before run so they say

[jamied]

larger is as a kit also but if it 'primes' wrong you get a flat larger (get a sodastream...perfect for flat beer)

to 'prime' a stout, bitter or larger is putting a small amout of sugar into the bottle as you fill it and cap it, the sugar will let the yeast work a bit more, this in turn makes the beer a bit stonger and give it the fizz and body needed for a good head on a pint.

best thing for you to get is the brew barrel and a beer kit (in a tin) from wilkinsons with an air lock (i shall do some pictures tomorrow of the ones i have) but...first get your bottles, might sound easy but unless you know a good pub or a mate that drinks magners, newcastel brown...ect you will be hunting. i have about 250 bottles at one time but thats due to the amount i brew and store, i think i have about 130 wine bottels also.

[jamied]

forgot to put...get this kit for £26 which has eveything, i don't like using the bin you get but it's usefull, i use the brew barrel and air trap instead

Young's u Brew Brew Buddy Brewing System Bitter 40 Pint 1.8kg | Beer/Lager Making Kits | | Home Brewing from Wilkinson Plus

[scooby-KILLER]

ok man cheers so the above kit and buy a barrel and air trap seperate?