Simple Pleasures

[Hellyeah]

  
Same here, on special in the centre. Save a few euro me thinks, night ruined.

[Giggles]

Edit: wrong thread!

[astfgyl]

 
Same here, on special in the centre. Save a few euro me thinks, night ruined.

       makes fuckin Coors Light taste like quadruple hopped horse strength IPA

[Maggot Colony]

Rockshore is eunuch lager. Anything that's 4% or less should be considered non-alcoholic.

I only buy Polish beer nowadays - Tyskie and Żywiec. I hope to fuck they don't lower the percentage and change to 440ml cans like the rest of the cunts. Don't think I could take it!

[astfgyl]

Quite fond of the oul Tyskie myself and indeed would far rather simply pay the extra euro or two than have the cunts shrink it on me. Never drank the Żywiec must give that a go as well

[Hellyeah]

Getting fond of the aul perlenbacher bottles from lidl. Plus you don't have to pay the deposit return, so you can throw them in the nearest hedge when your done.  

[StoutAndAle]

Island's Edge can get to fuck. Off the market now anyway.

I would have thought a few more of you lads would have gone down the home-brew route.

Here's a stout (5.4% ABV) made in a plastic bucket out in the garage last month.

[astfgyl]

I remember getting you to give me a few pointers on the home brewing back the way but it seemed like a lot of setting up and I just kept putting it on the long finger. I must dig up what you gave me in case any of the other lads might be quicker off the mark. Edit: still have the best of intentions off getting it going but I'm well on the road to hell in that regard by now

Also my mouth is watering thinking about drinking that strong stout now

[Ollkiller]

The girlfriends cousin does the home brew but has gone all mad scientist with it. Has charts and everything but his finished product is sensational. Better than 99% of the craft stuff sold. Getting the right water he said is the most important part. Distilled I think. I must get on it. We used to do the bucket ale back in the college days. Manky as hell but two pints and you were flying.

[StoutAndAle]

The girlfriends cousin does the home brew but has gone all mad scientist with it. Has charts and everything but his finished product is sensational. Better than 99% of the craft stuff sold. Getting the right water he said is the most important part. Distilled I think. I must get on it. We used to do the bucket ale back in the college days. Manky as hell but two pints and you were flying.

I would under no circumstances used distilled water for brewing. Certainly you need clean water - to that end add a campden tablet to take out any chlorine and perhaps add some gypsum to change the hardness.

You can go down all sorts of rabbit holes in terms of water pH etc. but really once your water is clean (filtered is even better) plus all your gear is spotless and santised then you can make great beer without being in Dexter's Lab or whatever.

[astfgyl]

I've only done the homebrew wine and it took the fuckin head off me. Shit was evil. No idea what percent it was but a couple of glasses would put a serious dent in me.

[StoutAndAle]

I've only done the homebrew wine and it took the fuckin head off me. Shit was evil. No idea what percent it was but a couple of glasses would put a serious dent in me.

You have to be careful with the gravity for sure.

I told Ochoill and Leoos a story about a lad that I work with who asked me to show him how to homebrew a while back.

If I get a chance tomorrow I'll post it here.

[Grim Reality]

Homebrew myself the last 10 or so years. Great hobby. Certainly there's many different routes you can go down. Theres the mad scientist lads, gear/equipment/mini brewery lads, people who try and clone beers or those that experiment all the time. Personally I like to keep it simple as possible process wise and I make fairly forgiving styles that I enjoy that aren't readily available in the standard offy/supermarket where its 90% pale ale. So a variety of stouts, ales and bitters.

I'm actually brewing tonight. A Belgian stout fermented with a saison yeast. Garage is always full of beer and I rarely shop buy now. Happy days !

[astfgyl]

I've only done the homebrew wine and it took the fuckin head off me. Shit was evil. No idea what percent it was but a couple of glasses would put a serious dent in me.

You have to be careful with the gravity for sure.

I told Ochoill and Leoos a story about a lad that I work with who asked me to show him how to homebrew a while back.

If I get a chance tomorrow I'll post it here.

Looking forward to this if it comes.

Also the way Grim is describing it there would be the sort of thing I'd be interested in, few buckets going in the shed where the greatest effort is put into drinking the thing rather than goofing out on the science of it. Just the simplest possible start at making something drinkable - a simple pleasure so to speak, like growing weed in a greenhouse with horseshit type thing rather than the hydroponic extravaganza

[Eoin McLove]

Went to Disneyland Tokyo today. I had never been to any Disneylands before this and was half dreading it. We arrived an hour early and seeing the amount of people amassing at the gate lowered my expectations further. I thought I'll really have to put on a brave face. Ended up having an absolute blast. What an experience