Wall of Mouths

my grandad used to do it in his shed, apparently it tastes better (he usually drinks carling though so to be fair anything tastes better) He had like a barrel and it took quite a few weeks for it to be done, I think if i remember correctly you buy like a barrel then you buy refils for it though i cant really remember what he did i was about 7 or 8 years old at the time

Thanks Misanthropologist thats a very helpfull article! :D

@Gimme: Yeah you can buy them in “kits” which tend to be small barrels with all the ingredients inside.

I used to brew lager when I was a student…it’s certainly a cheap way to get pissed but I wouldn’t exactly call it a quality beverage. Especially if you drink the sediment bit that forms at the bottom of the bucket :) And it makes your room smell of yeast which I imagine some ladies would probably find repulsive.

fuck brewing beer, i’ve just discovered you can homebrew whiskey and vodka.

haha i wouldnt be drinking it, I’d be sticking a label with a russian looking name on the bottles and flogging it to corner shops to then sell on to youngsters from the estates.

I made my own damson and plum wine when i was a teenager, took around eight or nine months though. actually turned out good, bit fruity though. my dad makes poitin and sells it but that doesnt interest me. brewing beer and fermenting wine is more interesting, as your brewing for taste as well. a friend of ours built his own bar in his house, using all his own alcohol, he had to get rid of it after a year because of the damage that ensued. Imagine having beer on tap in your kitchen :)

Great topic! :) I was actually considering this myself a couple of weeks back. Not out of a tight budget necessity, more that i’m getting on a bit now and dammit isn’t this what older gentlemen are supposed to do?!

Like chatting on the wom with metallica on whilst the wife is downstairs then? :D

apparently its a good hangover cure, if you do something with it you can make little sweets.

I like the thread.. :o) cheers

I liked the idea of this. But…
My friends step dad did it a few times. He had a kit where you’d make a quarter kegs worth at a time. I just remember it wasn’t very good, and it smelled bad. May have been the cook, but it killed any thoughts I had of trying it.

My friend brewed some homebrew cider when we were 16 - we spent a sunny sunday afternoon drinking it in his garden, it tasted like shit, watery shit and didn’t seem very strong at the point of consumption. I did, however, go home in an ambulance.

booze… after the cider ran out it seemed like a good idea to chug Ouzo and Greek Rakki from the bottle… what a fucking mess

Ah - we had an early start, much was consumed, 8 or 9 pints of home brew cider and half a bottle of spirits on an empty stomach and a 16 year old dont mix well. Captain 999 took me home rather than to A&E for a stomach pump (as I had already managed that myself through the power of vomit)

I wish I could say I was 16 when it happened but I was actually 25