Home brew

[cymtriks]

Anyone else here brew their own wine, beer or cider?

For those who reckon all homebrew is rubbish I've recently bought some supermarket wine at more than triple my normal per bottle cost just to do a reality check. Nasty cheap tasting stuff!

I've just started a 30 bottle Shiraz wine kit and a 6 bottle Chardonay kit. Both kits were Heron Bay kits. total cost nearly 70 quid or about 1.90 a bottle.

This little lot will bring my cellar up to over 80 bottles. Yes I know, not much for a home brewer, I've been canning it lately, it's normally a few bottles more!

I did a stock take earlier on. Just one bottle of 2003 cider left. Must get brewing...

[lord summerisle]

here here.

got a cellar full of various - plus a gooseberry kit and a ale kit to get going now we've freed up a 5 gallon barrel and bucket.

the last red we did cost £6 for the kit plus 2 packets of sugar - made 30 bottles of stuff you'd be paying £5-6 in the supermarket.

[nonegreen]

cymtriks said:

Anyone else here brew their own wine, beer or cider? For those who reckon all homebrew is rubbish I've recently bought some supermarket wine at more than triple my normal per bottle cost just to do a reality check. Nasty cheap tasting stuff! I've just started a 30 bottle Shiraz wine kit and a 6 bottle Chardonay kit. Both kits were Heron Bay kits. total cost nearly 70 quid or about 1.90 a bottle. This little lot will bring my cellar up to over 80 bottles. Yes I know, not much for a home brewer, I've been canning it lately, it's normally a few bottles more! I did a stock take earlier on. Just one bottle of 2003 cider left. Must get brewing...

Jesus at that price just got to France and buy the stuff its cheaper Beer is still brewable though


>> Edited by nonegreen on Monday 10th October 00:12

[cymtriks]

nonegreen said:

Jesus at that price just got to France and buy the stuff its cheaper Beer is still brewable though

I can get wine for 1/3 of its UK price in France?

I know it's cheaper over there but I never thought that there was that much price differential!

Read my post, my 1.90 a bottle is for a 50 quid, i.e. decent, kit. At this price a kit is producing a totally different result from the 5 quid rubbish kits stuffed full of e-numbers, added sugar and fruit pulp!

[MARQUE]

mooooooon shine....keep the cottage industry alive
i have 10 gallons of perry on the go with same of scrumpy...1 gallon of apple wine 1 gallon of bullas wine and 2 gallons of grape juice wine all tried and tested recipe's from last year bubble bubble basement trouble..or something.

[lord summerisle]

cymtriks said:

nonegreen said: Jesus at that price just got to France and buy the stuff its cheaper Beer is still brewable though I can get wine for 1/3 of its UK price in France? I know it's cheaper over there but I never thought that there was that much price differential! Read my post, my 1.90 a bottle is for a 50 quid, i.e. decent, kit. At this price a kit is producing a totally different result from the 5 quid rubbish kits stuffed full of e-numbers, added sugar and fruit pulp!

£1.90 a bottle - for something the shops would charge £5-10? done many a lovely kit costing £6-10 making 5 gallons, not to mention going out for a walk and picking wild elderflowers and making own wine - then we're talking £1 for 5 gallons, if that.

[timmy30]

[quote=cymtriks]
I can get wine for 1/3 of its UK price in France?
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It's well worth the trip.

Btw I have a 5g Keg of Woodfordes Werry brewing away in the shed, cheers for the advice Lord Summerisle

You can't get good cheap beer in France you see.

>> Edited by timmy30 on Monday 10th October 11:21

[lord summerisle]

Aye Timmy, no probs.. another week i think, if i remember your starting date and it'll be ready for adrinking (tho maybe a little cloudy for the first week or so)

did you get the email reply the other week?

[timmy30]

lord summerisle said:

Aye Timmy, no probs.. another week i think, if i remember your starting date and it'll be ready for adrinking (tho maybe a little cloudy for the first week or so) did you get the email reply the other week?

Yes thanks

It's looking good in the barrel, nice amber colour... hardest thing is resisting the temptation to start tapping the barrel early.....it's like waiting for xmas!