Not so O/T: Home Brew...

Scoey,

Are you sure that your not my FIL??

He culdn't go 3 weeks from bottling a new brew, so to help him out I'd take a dozen bottles from each brew and store them in my garage for up to 18 months before I returned them, or he visited. (he's in Woolgoolga and I'm in Sydney)

He's lucky I'm not a big beer drinker hey, I had up to 30 different brews at any one time in storage for him.

There is a few home brewers here so no doubt they will help you out.

Have a good one

Cheers Kev

There is now way a batch of home brew would last 2 years around here, it might keep that long but it would be long gone.

Don't think that home brew is cheap. Add in the bottles ( you need lots), different hops, malt, this and that, then the bigger frementer, more storage room.......it all adds up..... forgot to add that the hop plants arrive next month.....

and I don't even drink the stuff

Mrs S

get every body to donate bottles and stubbies so you can get well ahead
when i was brewing i had up to 100 doz settling on the shelf last 1 to be drunk after i moved to melb and stopped brewing was 2.5 years old a nd smooth as
but you need to brew flat out for a while and i hope your guts doesnt get as big as mine did

steve

Scoey,
Try this link;
www.homebrewandbeer.com/
the forum is very good and covers what you want to do.
cant help other than the above link as I quite happy with lagers and bitters atm and haven't attempted a stout.
Cheers
Pete

Hows it going Scoey,

Just get the keg system , you will never wash another bottle again.

Also if you are a very desperate individual you can have it out of the fermenter and being drunk in 3 days !

Glenn.

Hi Scoey, can only offer you 15 years experience home brewing but here goes..
I recomend Coopers Classic Old Dark Ale, in fact thats all I brew these days. You
can fool around with buying all the bits & adding them together but I got sick of that & just use Coopers tins...tip it in wait a week then bottle..easy.
It is true that ageing improves the drop. I am drinking 4 year old stuff at the moment.. beautiful. I suggest 3 months as the minimum. Get into it & build up your stocks is the way to go & then brew to replace at the rate you drink it.
Stubbies are time wasters, go for long necks, wash out immediately & store upside
down. Milk crates hold 14 bottles, I make 28 to a brew. mark top with ID. Good
luck with it....oldbaz.

Haha! I see I'm not the only one with the "problem" ;-)

Thanks for all the advice everyone - much appreciated!

Cheers
Scoey!

Careful with that stuff Scoey, I know one Sydneysider (going to Warraweena) who has had food poisening with home brew. Has a special fridge and kegs for it too. I visited the family at one stage, and he had quite a severe case next day. Obviously wasn't something I ate either. He couldn't go to work actually.

Gday Scoey

As has been covered in above posts, brew lots and you can get ahead. I only do coopers stout and ginger beer (ginger beer gets a shot of rum and now started putting chillie in it as well). I do nothing different with the dark beers than the others, but it is a little slower to ferment and does like to be left a little longer.

I now have 4 coopers kits, probably should go the keg system. It makes the bottleing day a biggie, but you end up with the equivelant of 240 odd stubbies out of it, so I don't have to do it all that often. Bottles is the hardest thing, although I have an unlimited supply of stubbies. This is handy for camping/fishing etc, as I don't bother using them ones again. Stout in coke bottles is a good disguise......

Cheers Andrew

g'day Scoey,

you can get into stouts after a few weeks or make them up with extra water to get a heavy dark ale. you can add lactose to get an even smoother stout.

as someone else mentioned, no way would a hb last 2 yrs at my house, but if it is in glass with a proper seal it will last. mate of mine had a batch of cider he forgot about, under the house. 9 yrs later he found them, weren't too bad either.

just follow the label and you'll be right. Black Stump stout is a good 'un.