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[Kevin Wood]

Having sampled some of guffers home brews, it's good stuff. Only need one mind 

The one we made when you were all over here has turned out to be a nice little beer.  I hope to save some for Newent 

What?.. Save it until September?

I had a good day yesterday.. 23L of Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby mild and 24L of Rauchbier now bubbling away. Oh, and I scored a 50L stainless vessel for conversion into a copper.

[Rods2]

Years ago when I was a teenager I used to make home brew. It never seemed to make it past the ready by date as me and a group of friends would always finish 40 pints in an evening. 

Some of the brews I made were quite strong up to 8%, but the stronger they were generally the worse the tasted. I always found the kits where you boiled all the ingredients, rather than syrup based kits much better. But my teetotal parents were most unimpressed when the house smelt like a brewery. 

I've still got all of the kit and I'm thinking about starting to brew again once I'm in the Ukraine as there beer is a very good lager, but you IMHO can't beat a pint of good best bitter. 

In my wife's village, in the Ukraine, at any celebration large 2 or 3 litre bottles of home distilled vodka seem to appear from nowhere.  It tastes very good, err huh, or so I've heard.

[Taxi_Driver]

Was given a Wilkinson's kit (Cabernet Sauvignon) a month or two before Christmas. It was supposed to take about 3 weeks, so I timed it to be ready for Christmas lunch.  Bottled it two days before and tried a bit then. Vile. Undrinkable.  Didn't drink it with Christmas lunch!

Tried it again a few days ago; now just about drinkable.  Bloody horrible though. 

Hope yours goes better! 

I was warned by the shopkeeper, that how long they claim it takes depends on ideal fermenting temp. You need a hydrometer to tell when its ready for bottling, also apparently you can work out the % of alcohol with it as well, but i havent got my head around that bit yet 

[Drewomega]

I used to make my own wine when I lived in Scotland full time and also when I was in the sandpit for long periods. Some was passable but always drunk!! Here in Mallorca I buy red wine from the bodega at €9 for 5 litres. 

[Taxi_Driver]

All bottled now 

And tried a bottle last night....very drinkable  and had a great nights sleep