byegad
Legendary Member
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- NE England
The cost of living going to £4 a pint!?!?!?
Time to get out the homebrew kit.
Time to get out the homebrew kit.
The Price of Beer Set to Surge
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Mad Doug Biker
I prefer animals to most people.
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- Craggy Island
Just give me a nice British ale and I'll be quite happy in a quiet pub with a roaring fire (although not in this weather) and a good book.
Sod all that Foreign lager pish.
Sod all that Foreign lager pish.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I just wanted to get some kind of rough idea what the cost of barley in a pint of beer represents. A totally (ahem) piddling amount . For the brewers or HMG to blame a hike in beer prices on a Russian grain crisis is laughable and dishonest. 1.3 pence is a very small part of £4.
Do the math, as they say over there.
I used to make homebrew years ago, and never got round to making it again till last year, I have always stuck to making Export Bitter and Stout, and I can never recall having a bad pint despite trying other peoples homebrew which tastes like shite normally. Usually though I stick to Stout as it has the most clout and gets you pi***d quicker
The best Bitters I have made and still do are the "Geordie" ones, but made with brown sugar, only takes seven days to ferment or less sometime's, then stick it in a pressure barrell and give it a few days and its ready to drink. Bottling the stuff is too tedious as you get 40 pints usually out of a kit, which means cleaning and sterilising 40 bottles, priming them with sugar, filling them, capping them and finding somewhere to store them, plus you may need another 40 bottles just to keep the process going so you never run out. A barrel is far better as you can carry it around to where you want in the house.
Wine I also make, which I seldom drink as a rule when I'm out, but when you make it yourself, its a different ball game when you can just pull the cork and drink it straight from the bottle as it should be, just like the Roman's, Viking's and Greeks did (Well if they had bottles they might have done, but I don't have a goatskin to store it in) and not in some ponsy glass which it gets served in. Plus you don't have to share your bottle as you can give your partner her own.
The best Bitters I have made and still do are the "Geordie" ones, but made with brown sugar, only takes seven days to ferment or less sometime's, then stick it in a pressure barrell and give it a few days and its ready to drink. Bottling the stuff is too tedious as you get 40 pints usually out of a kit, which means cleaning and sterilising 40 bottles, priming them with sugar, filling them, capping them and finding somewhere to store them, plus you may need another 40 bottles just to keep the process going so you never run out. A barrel is far better as you can carry it around to where you want in the house.
Wine I also make, which I seldom drink as a rule when I'm out, but when you make it yourself, its a different ball game when you can just pull the cork and drink it straight from the bottle as it should be, just like the Roman's, Viking's and Greeks did (Well if they had bottles they might have done, but I don't have a goatskin to store it in) and not in some ponsy glass which it gets served in. Plus you don't have to share your bottle as you can give your partner her own.
Over The Hill
Guru
- Location
- Ridden off into the sunset
Isn't that like saying it is worth paying four times the price to travel on public transport for the convivial characters you have the chance of mixing with?
Yes White Hart is there but as it is Basingstoke they have to knock things down and build new ones so they replaced the police station with another one. Not quite sure why.
The Barley is still there - I was down there a month ago. It is my second closest local after the Fox (which has gales beer).
Aside from that it is just the same - full of boring chavs who just work and buy clothes.
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
Decent beer in Ontario is already at least $7 (around 4 GBP) a pint.
Gareth
Guru
- Location
- Norwich, Norfolk, UK
I brew a wide variety of flavoured Home-made Meads and root based beers: Ginger beer, Dandelion and Burdock Beer, Star Anise Beer, and Elderflower champagne ..... ..... and I win prizes with my brews:
At supermarket prices for the ingredients I average 58p per litre. The Meads I brew out to a max of 12%ABV, and the beers to 6%ABV, and the Elderflower champagne to about 4 or 5 % ABV.
My now (in)famous step-by-step photo recipes can be found here: http://overthegate.m...about10420.html just scroll down the page and click on the links.
At supermarket prices for the ingredients I average 58p per litre. The Meads I brew out to a max of 12%ABV, and the beers to 6%ABV, and the Elderflower champagne to about 4 or 5 % ABV.
My now (in)famous step-by-step photo recipes can be found here: http://overthegate.m...about10420.html just scroll down the page and click on the links.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Gareth, please don't get me wrong. I admire your brewing skills, but mead and a raptor on your arm gets me well-worried. Do you wear woad as well?
Gareth
Guru
- Location
- Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Gareth, please don't get me wrong. I admire your brewing skills, but mead and a raptor on your arm gets me well-worried. Do you wear woad as well?
Have you read my signature?
Ah, to have;a falcon on my arm, mead on my lips, and the lamentations of my enemies women in my ears..
