Homebrew ( The real kind )

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Sat May 14, 2005 6:38 pm

Just started brewing yesterday. Got a nice set of wheat beer going. Gonna start a new one today. Maybe Guinness clone I dunno. Anyone else do this?

ace · Post by **ace** » Sat May 14, 2005 6:44 pm

I did for a while, but other tenents complained of the smell

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Sat May 14, 2005 11:27 pm

ah. Yeah. The smell can get crazy lol. I got 4 more buckets today. Gonna start 4 more brews on monday.

Post by **Quzar** » Sun May 15, 2005 2:42 am

I thought that was illegal? or is it only illegal to sell it?

skar · Post by **skar** » Sun May 15, 2005 3:00 am

well at least over here the brewing process on wine/beer is legal, only the process of making it "harder" (dunno what it's called, bootlegging?) is illegal as long as no alcohol taxes are payed...

Post by **pixel** » Sun May 15, 2005 7:15 am

In America, you can make a certain amount of alcohol before it's illegal. Wal-Mart used to sell beer making kits and stuff like that.

ace · Post by **ace** » Sun May 15, 2005 8:21 am

Random_Troll wrote:ah. Yeah. The smell can get crazy lol. I got 4 more buckets today. Gonna start 4 more brews on monday.

I might start it up again.

Zealous zerotype · Post by **Zealous zerotype** » Sun May 15, 2005 8:31 am

I was thinking of doing this too. Expicaly since they sell kits for like 20bucks down the road.

revengeofLaEternal · Post by **revengeofLaEternal** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:54 pm

My mom told me about how she and her housemates tried making red wine back when she was in college. She said it almost worked, but long story short, the containers busted and everything was wasted. So, no, I don't think it's illegal. Just don't plan on going into business selling it

ace · Post by **ace** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:55 pm

revengeofLaEternal wrote: Just don't plan on going into business selling it

When I was a senior in highschool, a couple of my friends and I used to brew it and sell it to other high school kids.

We made good money for what we put into it

Zealous zerotype · Post by **Zealous zerotype** » Tue May 17, 2005 8:06 pm

Their is a crappy way to "make it" and nor brew it per se.
Items needed to make hard alcohol (50% alcohol content):

1. Rubbing Alcohol that has ethanol or ether alcohol. Now, go down to the local wal-mart or some place like that and ask where the rubbing alcohol is. When you get the the rubbing alcohol section look on the back of every bottle looking for one that has ethanol or ether alcohol.
If the bottle has anything else besides ethanol don't buy it. Don't buy rubbing alcohol that has iso-propyl!!!
You might already have the stuff at home look in the medicine cabinet.
Remember.....ETHANOL OR ETHER ALCOHOL ONLY!!!!!!
Note: Ethanol is not dangerous to use. In fact ethanol is what is used in beer and liquer.

2. Distilled Water in a bottle (this is really cheap, but you can use tap water).

3. Empty wine bottle (You can use a plastic kool-aid container it really does not matter as long as it can hold liquid)

4. 1 tbs salt (This is for taste)

5. 6 tbs honey (This is for taste and the sugar) (Sugar makes the alcohol faster acting!)

6. You don't have to have step 4 or 5.

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:00 pm

Started an IPA today. God I love those. mmm. Still got the ingredients to make A Fruit beer and A guinness extra stout clone.

jaredfogle · Post by **jaredfogle** » Wed May 18, 2005 6:21 pm

I'd love to build a still. Thats the kind of hobby I could dig.

But I'm not doing 11 29 for tax evasion.

I suppose I could set up a fuel-making facility

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Sell my all natural (made from corn!) fuel at flea markets.

jaredfogle · Post by **jaredfogle** » Wed May 18, 2005 6:24 pm

skar wrote:well at least over here the brewing process on wine/beer is legal, only the process of making it "harder" (dunno what it's called, bootlegging?) is illegal as long as no alcohol taxes are payed...

AFAIK, beer and wine is totally legal to produce for personal consumption.

But you can do up to 5 for running an unregistered still (though, to be realistic, you won't get caught unless you distribute your product.)

It's such a nasty situation, if the prosecution wanted to, they could crucify. They could likely get 10 and all your cash.

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Thu May 19, 2005 2:47 am

I'm going to start making hard cider tomorrow. Maybe some cranberry wine too.

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Thu May 19, 2005 9:57 pm

I made hard cider, hard lemonade, cranberry wine and pineapple wine today. I also bottled my first beer a few minutes ago. The beer isn't quite ready but I just wanted to see if I could do it. I'll post pics of the actual bottling process on sunday when its done.

Vlad Tepes · Post by **Vlad Tepes** » Fri May 20, 2005 9:28 am

I knew a guy who was all into brewing his own beer. He went completely overboard with it. The thing that cracked me up was that he served it at his wife's baby shower. He gave me a couple of bottles, and it was really good. Much better than a lot of the domestic crap we have in the US.

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Fri May 20, 2005 10:04 am

Vlad Tepes wrote:I knew a guy who was all into brewing his own beer. He went completely overboard with it. The thing that cracked me up was that he served it at his wife's baby shower. He gave me a couple of bottles, and it was really good. Much better than a lot of the domestic crap we have in the US.

i've been reading a couple of brew magazines and all of them have this ad where you can make labels to celebrate your childs birth.