OK so I'm brewing beer and the women are moaning a bit....

[friedaweed]

..well a lot actually :evil: Mainly the bird and her very nice sister....

"We don't like stout and real ales not a very girly drink is it?" Yawn yawn. I wouldn't mind but they don't even reside in the same county as me but you know what it's like. You start brewing and you think "What can I make the Judys?"

So I made them this.

Shopping trolley adventures :mrgreen:

4 litres of Morrison's premium red grape juice
4 liters of ASDA chav apple juice
4 Litres of Tesco 'Oh so budget' Red grape juice
4 liters of ALDI Apple and elderflower juice bin end stock.
Quarter a bottle of Tesco Elderflower cordial.
What was left on the sideboard of a bottle of strawberry cordial
4 litres of pellegrino vasser (The mother in law and her posh afflictions)
a kilo of dextrose
a mash of tea, raisins, juniper berries and dates that boiled and brewed for 10 minutes
a pinch of yeast nutrient (A couple of spoonfuls i think)
Some pectose or was it petulance?
Half a jar of Sainsbury's cheap honey (I have my Cheshire standards you know)
and a voodoo spell

Will it make cider eventually?
Will it blow up in my kitchen?
When should I rack it off into a barrel?
Will it get them both ****** enough for me to realise my sisters fantasy?
Do I need to use finings?
Do i need to have a mop on standby?
Do I need my head testing?

I'm calling it "I'll go shopping for juice girls you put a brew on"

If it keeps them off my beer it'll do.

Pitched yeast (Young's cider) at 19 deg. 22 litres in the tank at OG 1054ish.

Wadda ya think Jedi? I'll need some help as what to do with it once it's done its first ferment.

 

[ScottM]

1.054 should see a nice 6-6.5% abv, that should give them a nice dunt I would have thought.

Have you left enough headspace in the FV? If there isn't very much I'd sit it on a towel

 

[BigYin]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

If they like that brew then it sounds like you'll have a long day replicating it :lol:

I brew a very light ale for my Mrs, and just tell her it's a lager :lol: :twisted:

So far no complaints about it though :mrgreen: I should probably brew it a few times, and add in a bit more crystal each time to gradually darken it, and slowly educate her beer palate :twisted:

 

[evanvine]

Shopping trolley adventures :mrgreen:

Why are you envious of your trolley adventures?

 

[friedaweed]

1.054 should see a nice 6-6.5% abv, that should give them a nice dunt I would have thought.

Have you left enough headspace in the FV? If there isn't very much I'd sit it on a towel

Just looking in the airing cupboard for one I'm not attached to :)

Shopping trolley adventures :mrgreen:

Why are you envious of your trolley adventures?

Wrong smiley. Maybe looking at my towels i shoulda used the facepalm one :)

 

[friedaweed]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

If they like that brew then it sounds like you'll have a long day replicating it :lol:

I brew a very light ale for my Mrs, and just tell her it's a lager :lol: :twisted:

So far no complaints about it though :mrgreen: I should probably brew it a few times, and add in a bit more crystal each time to gradually darken it, and slowly educate her beer palate :twisted:

You put crystal meth in your wife's beer :lol:

 

[Andy.H]

Hmm... watching this one with interest. I got a spare FV waiting for me to decide what to put in it

 

[BigYin]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

If they like that brew then it sounds like you'll have a long day replicating it :lol:

I brew a very light ale for my Mrs, and just tell her it's a lager :lol: :twisted:

So far no complaints about it though :mrgreen: I should probably brew it a few times, and add in a bit more crystal each time to gradually darken it, and slowly educate her beer palate :twisted:

You put crystal meth in your wife's beer :lol:

now there's a thought :hmm: :lol:

Doubt my local home brew shop will sell it though :whistle:

 

[friedaweed]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

If they like that brew then it sounds like you'll have a long day replicating it :lol:

I brew a very light ale for my Mrs, and just tell her it's a lager :lol: :twisted:

So far no complaints about it though :mrgreen: I should probably brew it a few times, and add in a bit more crystal each time to gradually darken it, and slowly educate her beer palate :twisted:

You put crystal meth in your wife's beer :lol:

now there's a thought :hmm: :lol:

Doubt my local home brew shop will sell it though :whistle:

It's the only recipe we don't seem to have :)

 

[Sideboard]

Looks like you considered all species with your brew ingredients there m8.. everyone's going to be happy.

 

[Djtrouble1982]

Will it get them both ****** enough for me to realise my sisters fantasy?

Well that's a typo that could get you in real trouble haha

 

[friedaweed]

This thing has gone off like a bloody jacuzzi :party:
I can hear it bubbling in my bedroom

Quick question to the local Jedi. Can you just rack this off like an ale into a keg and prime it with some sugar and leave it to condition for a month or so?

 

[ScottM]

You can use a keg just the same as you do with ale, but you will only get as much fizz as you do with an ale unfortunately. If you want it sparkling like a cider then you really need to corny or bottle it.

 

[friedaweed]

You can use a keg just the same as you do with ale, but you will only get as much fizz as you do with an ale unfortunately. If you want it sparkling like a cider then you really need to corny or bottle it.

Cool. Might be a job for pet bottles then. Thanks for ya help matey

 

[ScottM]

You can use a keg just the same as you do with ale, but you will only get as much fizz as you do with an ale unfortunately. If you want it sparkling like a cider then you really need to corny or bottle it.

Cool. Might be a job for pet bottles then. Thanks for ya help matey

No problemo. If you go for PET bottles try to get 500ml bottles rather than larger ones. Reason being that a sparkling cider will start to lift the sediment after a pour. If you don't pour all the contents in one go, the second pour is going to be full of sediment and rather disgusting

 

[friedaweed]

You can use a keg just the same as you do with ale, but you will only get as much fizz as you do with an ale unfortunately. If you want it sparkling like a cider then you really need to corny or bottle it.

Cool. Might be a job for pet bottles then. Thanks for ya help matey

No problemo. If you go for PET bottles try to get 500ml bottles rather than larger ones. Reason being that a sparkling cider will start to lift the sediment after a pour. If you don't pour all the contents in one go, the second pour is going to be full of sediment and rather disgusting

:thumb: You see that's the sort of knowledge that you can only get from people who know
Muchas Grassyass.
I might ask my local if i can knick some bottles from their back yard

 

[ScottM]

You're welcomeo.

I learned that one from experience

 

[friedaweed]

OK so this stuff has run right down to 0995 which according to my calcs gives it 7.8 abv . I've racked it off and I'm using some alcotec finings to clear it a bit and then it's going into bottles tomorrow night.

I had a taste when I racked it off. Well to say just a taste would be taking the ****. :whistle: I had half a wine glass full, well half a large wine glass :whistle: and it gave me a very nice warm feeling inside. A bit like when her indoors puts her rubber friend in the microwave to warm it up :shock: Just kidding, i've asked her loads of time but she insists it's better for cleanliness if it comes straight out of the freezer and twice dipped in the sanitiser.

Anyway for it's FG it actually still had quite a bit of sweet fruitiness about it. The closest I would say to my smokers hindered taste buds would be like a strawberry opal fruitiness after-taste but with the up front twang of a grape like apple fizzbomb :hmm:

Anyway it's going into bottles tomorrow night and in a couple of weeks we'll have our first proper tastings of.......

 

[ScottM]

It's actually only 7.76% :P

Sounds like proper wreck the hoose juice

 

[friedaweed]

It's actually only 7.76% :P

Sounds like proper wreck the hoose juice

Look dude I told her I had 7.8 inches and got away with it do you honestly believe she's going to question my ABV? :rofl: