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Off-Topic Making your own booze
- Thread Starter Woody
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HOME FUN BETS LOTTERY
Any other musical fans any idea?
Please add names below, ya fags
It will take weeks, maybe even months.
At this stage i've not even put the yeast in yet. We're due to be away this weekend so if I'm going to start off a load of apple-related explosions I'm going to make sure it's when I'm at home.
For now, my alcohol is still coming from the corner shop. I didn't intend to get any tonight but I had to go for milk so I was duty bound to pick up some cans at the same time.
To digress, I bumped into my old next-door neighbour in the shop. Lovely guy, not seen him for best part of the year. Had his arm in a sling.
Turns out a horse stood on his finger and basically took the top off (he is a vet). Fuck that for a laugh! Still cringing a bit at the thought now. It was his arm-up-the-bum hand too, so that's him out of action for many weeks.
So tonight's lesson is that home brewing might be an interesting hobby, but going down the co-op for your cans produces these nice little moments of human contact.
Its like the shittest hobby known to man
Do you know how long it takes to build a realistic looking model railway in your Nan's basement?
With all the bridges and bushes and stuff?
No?
Thought not.
Progress...
I wasn't happy with the thick foamy stuff at the top of each demijohn. I suspect it was from using the juicer as opposed to pressing the apples. Having consulted the internet again (ChatGPT has been absolutely excellent for this), I bought some straining bags and strained everything back into clean containers.
That seems to have done the job so I have now added the yeast. The foam on top is a sign that the fermentation magic is starting to happen.
Youll be creating cheese next over 5 years that'll cost us £4 on clubcard
HOME FUN BETS LOTTERY
The only consumables in this process have been apples (free), yeast (about £3 worth) and sulphite tablets (maybe a quid).
Everything else I either already had or can re-use. I've got about 24 pints of cider here. Obviously it's artisan craft cider, on account of the bits in it, so that would be about 4 quid a can I reckon.
So I should have multiplied my investment by about 30 times by the time this is all finished.
And had the satisfaction of making it, obvs.
HOME FUN BETS LOTTERY
HOME FUN BETS LOTTERY
Grease, Pink Ladies...wassat?
Any other musical fans any idea?
Please add names below, ya fags
It will take weeks, maybe even months.At this stage i've not even put the yeast in yet. We're due to be away this weekend so if I'm going to start off a load of apple-related explosions I'm going to make sure it's when I'm at home.
For now, my alcohol is still coming from the corner shop. I didn't intend to get any tonight but I had to go for milk so I was duty bound to pick up some cans at the same time.
To digress, I bumped into my old next-door neighbour in the shop. Lovely guy, not seen him for best part of the year. Had his arm in a sling.
Turns out a horse stood on his finger and basically took the top off (he is a vet). Fuck that for a laugh! Still cringing a bit at the thought now. It was his arm-up-the-bum hand too, so that's him out of action for many weeks.
So tonight's lesson is that home brewing might be an interesting hobby, but going down the co-op for your cans produces these nice little moments of human contact.
This has taken way too long for my taken
At this stage i've not even put the yeast in yet. We're due to be away this weekend so if I'm going to start off a load of apple-related explosions I'm going to make sure it's when I'm at home.
For now, my alcohol is still coming from the corner shop. I didn't intend to get any tonight but I had to go for milk so I was duty bound to pick up some cans at the same time.
To digress, I bumped into my old next-door neighbour in the shop. Lovely guy, not seen him for best part of the year. Had his arm in a sling.
Turns out a horse stood on his finger and basically took the top off (he is a vet). Fuck that for a laugh! Still cringing a bit at the thought now. It was his arm-up-the-bum hand too, so that's him out of action for many weeks.
So tonight's lesson is that home brewing might be an interesting hobby, but going down the co-op for your cans produces these nice little moments of human contact.
Its like the shittest hobby known to man
Do you know how long it takes to build a realistic looking model railway in your Nan's basement?
With all the bridges and bushes and stuff?
No?
Thought not.
Progress...
I wasn't happy with the thick foamy stuff at the top of each demijohn. I suspect it was from using the juicer as opposed to pressing the apples. Having consulted the internet again (ChatGPT has been absolutely excellent for this), I bought some straining bags and strained everything back into clean containers.
That seems to have done the job so I have now added the yeast. The foam on top is a sign that the fermentation magic is starting to happen.
Love straining bags
Progress...
I wasn't happy with the thick foamy stuff at the top of each demijohn. I suspect it was from using the juicer as opposed to pressing the apples. Having consulted the internet again (ChatGPT has been absolutely excellent for this), I bought some straining bags and strained everything back into clean containers.
That seems to have done the job so I have now added the yeast. The foam on top is a sign that the fermentation magic is starting to happen.
This thread is fucking shite I got to be honest.
Progress...
I wasn't happy with the thick foamy stuff at the top of each demijohn. I suspect it was from using the juicer as opposed to pressing the apples. Having consulted the internet again (ChatGPT has been absolutely excellent for this), I bought some straining bags and strained everything back into clean containers.
That seems to have done the job so I have now added the yeast. The foam on top is a sign that the fermentation magic is starting to happen.
Youll be creating cheese next over 5 years that'll cost us £4 on clubcard
Half a pint of Woody's Grogg would kill youThis thread is fucking shite I got to be honest.
Youll be creating cheese next over 5 years that'll cost us £4 on clubcard
Yeah, not from alcohol content, but from sheer bacterial involvement
And the arsenic he snuck inYeah, not from alcohol content, but from sheer bacterial involvement
Arse gumpf more likeAnd the arsenic he snuck in
This thread is fucking shite I got to be honest.
Youll be creating cheese next over 5 years that'll cost us £4 on clubcard
The only consumables in this process have been apples (free), yeast (about £3 worth) and sulphite tablets (maybe a quid).
Everything else I either already had or can re-use. I've got about 24 pints of cider here. Obviously it's artisan craft cider, on account of the bits in it, so that would be about 4 quid a can I reckon.
So I should have multiplied my investment by about 30 times by the time this is all finished.
And had the satisfaction of making it, obvs.
You'll need to invest in a bunch of tiny glasses so don't forget to factor that in.
Just go up shop and buy some
As a carpenter shouldn't you know the pride of a job well done yourself? Actually, probably not based on the fence rumours
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We are about 2.5 weeks in after adding the yeast. All three bottles bubbled away nicely for about a week and a half and then have more or less stopped, which means that the first bit of fermentation has happened. That's all going according to plan as far as I can tell.
Next I need to syphon the liquid out into a clean demijohn, leaving the sediment and foamy stuff behind. That's a job for the weekend.
Still looking pretty cloudy, especially the left-hand one, which was the last to finish bubbling. Once it's all been transferred, it'll start clearing a bit.
I haven't been told off yet for being in the way of where all the laundry happens but give it time.
Next job in my Richard Briers impression will be to get the chillis in.
More of them have ripened now and the forecast is OK for the time being so I could probably leave them out for another week or so. My only worry is that a rogue frost would absolutely bugger all of them so I may be better off just getting them in. From the front of the pic to the dog is all chillis and some of them are massive.
We are about 2.5 weeks in after adding the yeast. All three bottles bubbled away nicely for about a week and a half and then have more or less stopped, which means that the first bit of fermentation has happened. That's all going according to plan as far as I can tell.
Next I need to syphon the liquid out into a clean demijohn, leaving the sediment and foamy stuff behind. That's a job for the weekend.
Still looking pretty cloudy, especially the left-hand one, which was the last to finish bubbling. Once it's all been transferred, it'll start clearing a bit.
I haven't been told off yet for being in the way of where all the laundry happens but give it time.
Next job in my Richard Briers impression will be to get the chillis in.
More of them have ripened now and the forecast is OK for the time being so I could probably leave them out for another week or so. My only worry is that a rogue frost would absolutely bugger all of them so I may be better off just getting them in. From the front of the pic to the dog is all chillis and some of them are massive.
