Doe's anyone know a supplier of Ironmaster kits online or in the North East I have started my home brewing again after a 15 year rest as the pub beer is now nothing more than chemical pissssshhhhhh. I used to brew Boots, Hambleton and Bard and Iron master mainly, but Boots are no more and Ironmaster are no longer at Consett :drink:
Ironmaster kits
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Hi Monarch and welcome to the forum :thumb:
I did a bit of a google and found these people who do them online:
http://www.beer-and-winecraft.co.uk/bee ... grains.htm
Not sure where abouts you are but Hop & Grape http://www.hopandgrape.co.uk/ are in Darlington .. if you contact them they might be able to get those kits in if they don't already stock them.
Have you brewed any kits recently? If you have which one's it would be interesting to know how you've found homebrew kits have moved on in the last 15 years
Cheers, Wez
I did a bit of a google and found these people who do them online:
http://www.beer-and-winecraft.co.uk/bee ... grains.htm
Not sure where abouts you are but Hop & Grape http://www.hopandgrape.co.uk/ are in Darlington .. if you contact them they might be able to get those kits in if they don't already stock them.
Have you brewed any kits recently? If you have which one's it would be interesting to know how you've found homebrew kits have moved on in the last 15 years
Cheers, Wez
Hi just started drewing again in december using a geordie wet kit just about ready to be barreled so don't know what it will taste like...brewing kits don't seem to have changed much in the time I have'nt been brewing though basicly wort sugar and yeast.........i am after some ironmaster though as it had a nice "tang" to it.
A TRUE STORY
Around 1991 (summer) I brewed a Hambleton and Bard Amber Export reccomended by my brother who had done one about two months previous and told me it was strong stuff so to be carefull with the sugar when barrelling......well in them days we used to add about a teaspoon and a half for each pint to give it a bit more alchohol..we never checked with hydrometers etc if it tasted good and got you smiling that was the biz..any way I did the kit and added the usual sugar on barreling..half as much more as reccomended and maybe a little bit more "just for good measure".
Once cleared I had wee glass, it was bloody good stuff....anyway the weekend came and I got the pint pot out filled it drank it filled another three drank them and was absolutly palatic ........ bearing in mind I was a hardned home brew drinker downing 7-8 pints of boots special bitter or ironmaster on a night. I tried it again the next night still could'nt get past 4 and fell UP the stairs on the way to bed, falling over in the bedroom waking the wife and causing all kinds of mayhem when trying to negotiate where the bed was.
:drunk:
Well I now had a barrel of loopy juicewith around 30 pints left to sup...I had another go a couple of nights later and at that time had a C.B.radio too so after about 3 pints the C.B. Airwaves got some stick X factor did'nt have a look in.....hearing the next day the other C.Bers saying what an arse I had made of myself the night before caused me to take drastic action :hmm: .........I invited a work mate around the next weekend for a sesh on the brew...it had to GO. So Friday came and at about 8 my mate arrived on his push bike (we lived in the country about a mile from each other) he was a hardened guinness drinker 8-10 pints a night no problem. My barrels were kept in a big pantry and I always had 3 on the go, I settled my mate and went to get the beers a pint of boots special for me..... and a pint of loopy juice for Howie. Anyway the night went on and after I had sunk seven pints of the boots..Howie had managed 5 of the loopy juice, it was like watching that snake off Jungle book his eyes were rolling and he was wobbling real good, it was around 11 o'clock.....I offered him the setee for the night but he said he was off home....ON HIS BIKE...not feeling guilty I locked the door and went to bed. On monday when I got to work in came Howie it looked like he had been in a cage full of tigers his face and hands were covered in scratches. What's happened Howie?.... I asked.......Well he said....after I left your place I can remember getting on my bike turning the corner then...... I was walking across a ploughed field ......then I woke up in the hawthorn hedge..... I got home at 5.30 soaking wet with p*ss and ripped to shreds with no bike and stinking like a pile of ***** thats what F+^"ING happened!!!!!!!!!!! I asked him back for some more the next weekend but he told me to stick it up my A*se and he did not know how I could drink as much of the stuff, he pledged never to drink home brew again as it was rocket fuel!!!!! Anyway I was now down to about 22 pints of the stuff left I had to resort to mixing it half and half with my boots bitter to finish it off, I was so pleased when it was gone........I never knew the exact alchohol content but I know I have never had anything that compares to it??
A TRUE STORY
Around 1991 (summer) I brewed a Hambleton and Bard Amber Export reccomended by my brother who had done one about two months previous and told me it was strong stuff so to be carefull with the sugar when barrelling......well in them days we used to add about a teaspoon and a half for each pint to give it a bit more alchohol..we never checked with hydrometers etc if it tasted good and got you smiling that was the biz..any way I did the kit and added the usual sugar on barreling..half as much more as reccomended and maybe a little bit more "just for good measure".
Once cleared I had wee glass, it was bloody good stuff....anyway the weekend came and I got the pint pot out filled it drank it filled another three drank them and was absolutly palatic ........ bearing in mind I was a hardned home brew drinker downing 7-8 pints of boots special bitter or ironmaster on a night. I tried it again the next night still could'nt get past 4 and fell UP the stairs on the way to bed, falling over in the bedroom waking the wife and causing all kinds of mayhem when trying to negotiate where the bed was.
:drunk: Well I now had a barrel of loopy juicewith around 30 pints left to sup...I had another go a couple of nights later and at that time had a C.B.radio too so after about 3 pints the C.B. Airwaves got some stick X factor did'nt have a look in.....hearing the next day the other C.Bers saying what an arse I had made of myself the night before caused me to take drastic action :hmm: .........I invited a work mate around the next weekend for a sesh on the brew...it had to GO. So Friday came and at about 8 my mate arrived on his push bike (we lived in the country about a mile from each other) he was a hardened guinness drinker 8-10 pints a night no problem. My barrels were kept in a big pantry and I always had 3 on the go, I settled my mate and went to get the beers a pint of boots special for me..... and a pint of loopy juice for Howie. Anyway the night went on and after I had sunk seven pints of the boots..Howie had managed 5 of the loopy juice, it was like watching that snake off Jungle book his eyes were rolling and he was wobbling real good, it was around 11 o'clock.....I offered him the setee for the night but he said he was off home....ON HIS BIKE...not feeling guilty I locked the door and went to bed. On monday when I got to work in came Howie it looked like he had been in a cage full of tigers his face and hands were covered in scratches. What's happened Howie?.... I asked.......Well he said....after I left your place I can remember getting on my bike turning the corner then...... I was walking across a ploughed field ......then I woke up in the hawthorn hedge..... I got home at 5.30 soaking wet with p*ss and ripped to shreds with no bike and stinking like a pile of ***** thats what F+^"ING happened!!!!!!!!!!! I asked him back for some more the next weekend but he told me to stick it up my A*se and he did not know how I could drink as much of the stuff, he pledged never to drink home brew again as it was rocket fuel!!!!! Anyway I was now down to about 22 pints of the stuff left I had to resort to mixing it half and half with my boots bitter to finish it off, I was so pleased when it was gone........I never knew the exact alchohol content but I know I have never had anything that compares to it??
jamesb
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monarch said:
First off, as a brewer and CAMRA weenie, you're going to the wrong pubs.
Secondly (as a homebrewer), Why do kits now when all-grain is so easy? Or even extract brewing.
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I love that story. :rofl:
monarch said:Hi just started drewing again in december using a geordie wet kit just about ready to be barreled so don't know what it will taste like...brewing kits don't seem to have changed much in the time I have'nt been brewing though basicly wort sugar and yeast.........i am after some ironmaster though as it had a nice "tang" to it.
A TRUE STORY
Around 1991 (summer) I brewed a Hambleton and Bard Amber Export reccomended by my brother who had done one about two months previous and told me it was strong stuff so to be carefull with the sugar when barrelling......well in them days we used to add about a teaspoon and a half for each pint to give it a bit more alchohol..we never checked with hydrometers etc if it tasted good and got you smiling that was the biz..any way I did the kit and added the usual sugar on barreling..half as much more as reccomended and maybe a little bit more "just for good measure".
Once cleared I had wee glass, it was bloody good stuff....anyway the weekend came and I got the pint pot out filled it drank it filled another three drank them and was absolutly palatic ........ bearing in mind I was a hardned home brew drinker downing 7-8 pints of boots special bitter or ironmaster on a night. I tried it again the next night still could'nt get past 4 and fell UP the stairs on the way to bed, falling over in the bedroom waking the wife and causing all kinds of mayhem when trying to negotiate where the bed was.
Well I now had a barrel of loopy juicewith around 30 pints left to sup...I had another go a couple of nights later and at that time had a C.B.radio too so after about 3 pints the C.B. Airwaves got some stick X factor did'nt have a look in.....hearing the next day the other C.Bers saying what an arse I had made of myself the night before caused me to take drastic action :hmm: .........I invited a work mate around the next weekend for a sesh on the brew...it had to GO. So Friday came and at about 8 my mate arrived on his push bike (we lived in the country about a mile from each other) he was a hardened guinness drinker 8-10 pints a night no problem. My barrels were kept in a big pantry and I always had 3 on the go, I settled my mate and went to get the beers a pint of boots special for me..... and a pint of loopy juice for Howie. Anyway the night went on and after I had sunk seven pints of the boots..Howie had managed 5 of the loopy juice, it was like watching that snake off Jungle book his eyes were rolling and he was wobbling real good, it was around 11 o'clock.....I offered him the setee for the night but he said he was off home....ON HIS BIKE...not feeling guilty I locked the door and went to bed. On monday when I got to work in came Howie it looked like he had been in a cage full of tigers his face and hands were covered in scratches. What's happened Howie?.... I asked.......Well he said....after I left your place I can remember getting on my bike turning the corner then...... I was walking across a ploughed field ......then I woke up in the hawthorn hedge..... I got home at 5.30 soaking wet with p*ss and ripped to shreds with no bike and stinking like a pile of ***** thats what F+^"ING happened!!!!!!!!!!! I asked him back for some more the next weekend but he told me to stick it up my A*se and he did not know how I could drink as much of the stuff, he pledged never to drink home brew again as it was rocket fuel!!!!! Anyway I was now down to about 22 pints of the stuff left I had to resort to mixing it half and half with my boots bitter to finish it off, I was so pleased when it was gone........I never knew the exact alchohol content but I know I have never had anything that compares to it??
