Beer machines

[cosyslipper]

As anyone tryed the beer machine .And if so are they any good

[Garth]

if this is where you 'add water, and some other things then let it do the rest, then you serve from the same vessel as you've fermented in'

forget it, they sound crap.

[Jim]

They will make 'beer' that will get you p*issed. If you want quality, as Garth says, forget it.

[Garth]

sounds like to 'ole hang a bag on the door, add water, leave it for seven days then drink it from the bottom tap

hang on, I'm retching.......

[stevezx7r]

No offence intended to the TC crew around here but if your after making something with a little taste and a lot of alcohol with little effort, you could do worse than grab a load of 100% apple/mixed fruit juice, throw that in an FV, add yeast and wait 10 days, bottle/keg wait another couple of weeks and drink.

[orable]

Given that those things cost about 100 pounds and offer at best mid range kit performance you'd really be much better off with a Hop & Grape starter kit (other kits are available). Trust me, the beer you make will be much better and the wealth of knowledge available here is also far superior to any instruction leaflet you'll get with the beer machine.

If you really want cheap and cheerful, check out 'other recipes' for turbo cider.

[cosyslipper]

Thanks for the info you Guys.Bought one of Ebay on sunday £54 waiting for delivery I will give it a Whirl And let you know the outcome.
Hopefuly I wont be disappointed

[russt1969]

As anyone tryed the beer machine .And if so are they any good

Someone at my work did. Only 1 time though.........

[delboy]

No offence intended to the TC crew around here but if your after making something with a little taste and a lot of alcohol with little effort, you could do worse than grab a load of 100% apple/mixed fruit juice, throw that in an FV, add yeast and wait 10 days, bottle/keg wait another couple of weeks and drink.

good call steve, i've recently done a batch of TC with nothing other than tescos value pure apple juice, a pinch of yeast nutrient and youngs cider yeast.
This is the best so far, it is dry but not overly so and still has a taste of apples which i put down to the cider yeast (still very cheap since its dry yeast). It also doesn't have any of the twang that was present in the prevous batches. Im putting this twangless batch down to the use of a proper cider yeast, the small amount of yeast nutrient and the absence of more sugar (i mean why add sugar its already strong using just apple juice).
SWMBO who is my most hard to please customer has give it the thumbs up so i'll probably make another 10 Ls for the summer.

[Prozac]

so i'll probably make another 10 Ls for the summer.

10L for 2 days

I fancy having a go at this.

[stevezx7r]

Was just thinking that, I think our summer is almost gone

According to people on radio2 they've seen shops advertising Autumn stuff and some even prepping for chrimbo We should have a law about shops trying to gear up for chrimbo too soon.

[Aleman]

As anyone tryed the beer machine .And if so are they any good

If you are using them as suggested in the instructions with the 'Beer Machine' Kits then you are likely to be disappointed. If on the other hand you make a Brupaks beers of the world kit and use the 'Beer Machine' for dispensing then you might be more impressed.

You could also make 2 gallon batches of extract/all grain beer and dispense from it.

[cosyslipper]

As anyone tryed the beer machine .And if so are they any good

If you are using them as suggested in the instructions with the 'Beer Machine' Kits then you are likely to be disappointed. If on the other hand you make a Brupaks beers of the world kit and use the 'Beer Machine' for dispensing then you might be more impressed.

You could also make 2 gallon batches of extract/all grain beer and dispense from it.

Thanks Aleman Im new to this game so I give it a go with Machine Kit first then I try it with the Brupaks