Catching on!

[bottler]

Im catching on to the advantage of the homehrewing. Ive started off wrong by drinking a batch soon after its made . So as well as buying supermarket stuff im home brewing and thats crazy. So im going to brew a few kits AND LEAVE THEM ALONE :shock: . I want to live off my own brews and stop the supermarket stuff. I want to build up a stock and keep it replenished using 1 fv if i can, as work spoils a lot of my brewing time. So i'll have to keep buying beer until i get a healthy stock built up.

 

[LeedsBrewer]

as soon as you finish one kit, get the next started :thumb: they'll soon build up

 

[bottler]

Yeah mate, going to buy one tomorrow and get it started sunday. I have enough bottles for another brew, and with christmas comming, id say plenty of bottles to be had at recicle bins etc . :thumb:

 

[LeedsBrewer]

bottles were my problem when getting started. you can only brew as much as you can store. I went round loads of bars and restaurants and got dodgy looks from all of them when asking for empty bottles. finally found that emailing the bars was the best approach. have had 2 crates of empty swingtop bottles from one bar, and another bar is collecting a crate of bottles for me.

oh and my suggestion for your next kit is the ruby red. haven't done it myself but heard lots of good reports!

don't forget to look at the possibility of doing extract as well after you've done a few kits. i've heard the quality if much better, fresher. All you need is a pan that can boil around 6L i think?

 

[TRXnMe]

you need three fermenting vats:) two to actually ferment in, the third to rack off onto prior to bottling.

You also need to think about bulk storage, kegs; plastic or cornelius, make life easier, even if you are really well setup with bottling kit.

BTW, Give up now, make the decision to join the rest of us on the AG side :)

 

[Baz Chaz]

Storage is probably going to be your biggest problem, whichever you use, bottles or kegs :!:

I bottle all mine and have built up a good 'stock' of beers, it took a little while to scrounge all the bottles but I now have around 400 and the 'stock' level never drops below 100 :
As soon as the cupboards start to look empty and the 'empties' crates start to fill I get the brewing head out. I find I top up at the rate of one brew per week for 3 or 4 weeks and I'm ahaed of the game again :thumb:

which explains why I'm a bit of a 'fits n starts' brewer, brew loads then nothing for weeks

 

[bottler]

bottles were my problem when getting started. you can only brew as much as you can store. I went round loads of bars and restaurants and got dodgy looks from all of them when asking for empty bottles. finally found that emailing the bars was the best approach. have had 2 crates of empty swingtop bottles from one bar, and another bar is collecting a crate of bottles for me.

oh and my suggestion for your next kit is the ruby red. haven't done it myself but heard lots of good reports!

don't forget to look at the possibility of doing extract as well after you've done a few kits. i've heard the quality if much better, fresher. All you need is a pan that can boil around 6L i think?

The ruby is on and cooking :thumb:

 

[bottler]

Storage is probably going to be your biggest problem, whichever you use, bottles or kegs :!:

I bottle all mine and have built up a good 'stock' of beers, it took a little while to scrounge all the bottles but I now have around 400 and the 'stock' level never drops below 100 :
As soon as the cupboards start to look empty and the 'empties' crates start to fill I get the brewing head out. I find I top up at the rate of one brew per week for 3 or 4 weeks and I'm ahaed of the game again :thumb:

which explains why I'm a bit of a 'fits n starts' brewer, brew loads then nothing for weeks

Sounds about right my friend :thumb: Like your gone fishing avatar , love fishing and beer myself, but sometimes work gets in the way.

 

[Baz Chaz]

.... Sounds about right my friend :thumb: Like your gone fishing avatar , love fishing and beer myself, but sometimes work gets in the way.

Been there, done that, bugger the t shirt, now retired and love it :thumb: cannot speak highly enough of it, I'm incredibly lucky, love fishing, brewing, generally being outdoors and wandering with binoculars round the neck. Very seldom have time to be bored, rather be at work .... not a chance, but work pays yer bills to get you to this stage so can't really knock it :thumb: