beer be quick
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beer be quick
my friend bought me this kit all you have to do is add water so for the fun i did. i was just wondering if anybody ever hear of this? it takes three to four weeks i'd hate to wait that long just for 30 pints of muck
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bod
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QUOTE (bod @ Jun 24 2006, 03:15 PM) is this one of the ones in a sack with a tap on the bottle? i had one of them when i was a student.... i drank it, but then i was a student, so i'd drink anything with even a smidgen of alcohol in it. 
that's the one, a bit tacky looking but what the hell just add water and throw it in a corner for a month if it's that bad i know some people i can give it as a pressie hee hee hee
that's the one, a bit tacky looking but what the hell just add water and throw it in a corner for a month if it's that bad i know some people i can give it as a pressie hee hee hee
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PieOPah
My wife bought me something very similar sounding a few years ago when I first mentioned wanting to try home brewing.
It was called a Micro Brewery or something. Basically you had a plastic bag, a keg and some powder.
You put the powder in the bag and then filled the jug it came in with water. The water mixed with the powder and you topped this up to about 10 pints. The idea was you then left this for about 4 weeks.
On the keg there was a pump which allowed you to serve the beer. Well, I say beer. I really mean Cat's Piss. My god the stuff was foul. I don't know if what was in the box actually contained alcohol or not.... I didn't drink enough to find out.
At first I thought perhaps I had done something wrong and was considering buying a 'refill' kit. I am glad I didn't.
Now that I actually know a bit more about making beer, I know that the very last thing I want to be doing is pressurising my beer with air. This is just asking for disaster. No wonder the stuff tasted like crap.
Damn, along with the oxidization, there was probably major infection going on. Nothing was cleaned - hey why should I have? The instructions didn't tell me I needed to - I didn't know any better!!!
I don't even think that I would buy one of these kits again out of curiosity. I think I could make it work (just not using their guide) but would I want to drink their piss when I am capable of making my own?
It was called a Micro Brewery or something. Basically you had a plastic bag, a keg and some powder.
You put the powder in the bag and then filled the jug it came in with water. The water mixed with the powder and you topped this up to about 10 pints. The idea was you then left this for about 4 weeks.
On the keg there was a pump which allowed you to serve the beer. Well, I say beer. I really mean Cat's Piss. My god the stuff was foul. I don't know if what was in the box actually contained alcohol or not.... I didn't drink enough to find out.
At first I thought perhaps I had done something wrong and was considering buying a 'refill' kit. I am glad I didn't.
Now that I actually know a bit more about making beer, I know that the very last thing I want to be doing is pressurising my beer with air. This is just asking for disaster. No wonder the stuff tasted like crap.
Damn, along with the oxidization, there was probably major infection going on. Nothing was cleaned - hey why should I have? The instructions didn't tell me I needed to - I didn't know any better!!!
I don't even think that I would buy one of these kits again out of curiosity. I think I could make it work (just not using their guide) but would I want to drink their piss when I am capable of making my own?
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shaunmarrison
I think you're talking about the Brewzer http://www.happybrewer.co.uk/htm/brewzer/default.htm
I don't know about the chance of infection, I do know that the refills are sealed bags - the outer container basically just holds the bag and allows you to add pressure (pumping the handle). Obviously you'll need to clean the spout, etc.
I think the problems with this system are that all the mixture is in the bag at the start (including the yeast) and because it isn't racked into a keg or bottles, it is sitting in the dead yeast cells.
My mate has one, I'm looking forward to comparing it to the beer I'm making in the Micro-Brewery (I'm using a Primary Fermenter to prevent the dead yeast cells from spoiling the flavour - hopefully!)
I don't know about the chance of infection, I do know that the refills are sealed bags - the outer container basically just holds the bag and allows you to add pressure (pumping the handle). Obviously you'll need to clean the spout, etc.
I think the problems with this system are that all the mixture is in the bag at the start (including the yeast) and because it isn't racked into a keg or bottles, it is sitting in the dead yeast cells.
My mate has one, I'm looking forward to comparing it to the beer I'm making in the Micro-Brewery (I'm using a Primary Fermenter to prevent the dead yeast cells from spoiling the flavour - hopefully!)
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