Anyone make your own beer?

[Sephiroth]

Got a kit for making my own beer for Christmas. Haven't tried it yet, but definitely curios. Any advice?

[Hurbster]

I made quite a bit back when I was a student. I seem to remember sterilizing EVERYTHING and checking specific gravity all the time. This was before all the bags and brewster kits you can get nowadays.

Also tried rice and raisin whisky which tasted lovely but half a glass was enough to blow your socks off.

This might help with anything specific.

www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/

[herculesheanan]

I prefer buying 6 pack

[Hurbster]

And I'm betting it's a nice cheap fizzy lager you buy as well.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I haven't a friend did. Don't do what he did and place it by the furnace to speed up the aging process.

[Deleted]

No but it's something that always sounded to me

[Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster]

I did until last year but stopped due to a lack of space.

Keeping you beerr at a constant temperature makes a world of differnce in how your beer will taste so if you are willing to get serious about your beer after dropping a few brews down the line. Investing in a temperature control unit and a fridge might help.

that and using better yeast.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

My wife got me a kit a few years back for Christmas. There are a few problems with this. The first is that we live in a one bedroom condo, and don't have room to be brewing beer. The second is that while I like beer, I'm extremely lazy. It ended up sitting there for almost a year before getting thrown out.

She does her best trying to be creative for Christmas, but it always ends up like that.

[Push R Truth]

The three people I know that make the best beer/wine all have one thing in common: Old houses with deep limestone basements. Nice cold, dark places.

[Deleted]

This thread is full of hipsters.

Just kidding!

[Sephiroth]

Dec 31, 2014 13:12:57 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

The three people I know that make the best beer/wine all have one thing in common: Old houses with deep limestone basements. Nice cold, dark places.

So I should make beer inside my head?

[Reflecto]

Dec 31, 2014 12:57:51 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

My wife got me a kit a few years back for Christmas. There are a few problems with this. The first is that we live in a one bedroom condo, and don't have room to be brewing beer.

Even the lack of space isn't that much of a problem- I only have a one-bedroom apartment (that's kind of cluttered, to boot), and I've been able to brew beer in it without a problem.