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curious to see how many ppl on here make their on beer or other tasty alcoholic beverages.
we should do this every weekend!
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JR, I'm  , what do you know about alcoholic beverages?  jh
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I got the Mr Beer kit...and the cider kit...just finished the last of my ciders when I was home on R&R...gotta make another batch when I get home
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Interesting you should bring this up right about now. I just pulled a bottle of wine from a rack o' Chardonnay/Torrontes I made up back in May. Some of the guys from this site had a chance to sample AND favour it! Only 8 bottles left and man is it getting good. Torrontes is a white Argentinian grape variety that blends so well with a Chardonnay, or so I found out!
Time to start another batch or two or three!
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Asheville was just named 'Beer City USA' for the third consecutive year. I can't even make it through all the local microbrews.
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Tried it once. Took too long, bought from then on.
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I use to make wine; water melon, muscadine, cherry, and sometimes white grape. I don't have time for it anymore.
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About all I drink; downed a liter of cream ale watching the Raiders implode yesterday, with a batch of Irish Red Ale that should be drinkable by Halloween, but better by Thanksgiving.
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I've got an anti-homebrew kit. I can take a beverage that's got nasty poisonous alcohol in it and turn it into nice safe urine The best bit is that it's portable, so I can do this trick anywhere, preferably in the pub It's a tough job, but someones got to do it 
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I got the Mr Beer kit...and the cider kit...just finished the last of my ciders when I was home on R&R...gotta make another batch when I get home
Hows the cider kit It looks interesting. my mom and i have talked about doing wine but that sounds better.
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I know you know my answer. Pat's Homebrew Site Mmmmmm Speedmaster Red Azz Amber Ale, breakfast of champions. 
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I have been brewing my own for four years. I make a porter,two kinds of pale ale and my red ash ale at 6.5% abv.
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I got the Mr Beer kit...and the cider kit...just finished the last of my ciders when I was home on R&R...gotta make another batch when I get home
Hows the cider kit It looks interesting. my mom and i have talked about doing wine but that sounds better.
Hey cider brewers, try making some cyser it is even better.
Take a gallon of fresh apple juice, add 2 pounds of local fresh honey. Toss in some dry champaign yeast. Ferment it for 3 months at 70ºF. Transfer to another jug and enjoy. It is fantastic that way. The honey boosts the ABV up to about 20% and it goes down like nectar. Takes a little longer as honey ferments a lot slower then the other sugars but the flavor is to die for.
Or just add 2 lbs honey to a gallon of water and that makes it mead. Follow same directions as above. I much prefer it with the apple juice though.
be sure to keep the fermentation temp around 65ºF to a max of 70ºF though.
The nice thing about brewing anything with honey is that it will keep extremely long times. I have some meads that are over 15 years old and just fine. They have actually found mead in ancient Egyption tombs that are still good after a thousand years. Honey is the only thing known that does not go bad or mold.
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I tried cyser but it smelled like feet.
we should do this every weekend!
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I don't brew it, but I sure like drinking it!!! 
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I don't; but my son has made some mead, about 18% alcohol (really tasty, almost like a dry white wine) and he has some holiday (spiced) cyser brewing now that should be ready for Thanksgiving.
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I got the Mr Beer kit...and the cider kit...just finished the last of my ciders when I was home on R&R...gotta make another batch when I get home
Hows the cider kit It looks interesting. my mom and i have talked about doing wine but that sounds better.
Actually pretty good! I think you have to be even better on with the timing than the regular beer kit...and it helps to let it age (cold-lager) after it's "finished". They have some various flavors and recipes. I didn't like the cherry that much, but the regular apple and the raspberry were pretty good. I make the comment about aging, cause I made a batch around Christmas time last year, and went through half the batch; half of them were okay and half weren't very good. I didn't finish drinking that batch until the end of August when I came home from Iraq for R&R, and half of them were okay and the other half were damn good!
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actually the mrs and i are going to give the wine thing a go this year, seems i have aquired a taste for the stuff, have a good friend that has been brewing his own for about 20 years, his wine is great, so hopefuly i will have a batch soon, apparently the first couple as your learning is more like pop! but i likes pop!
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actually the mrs and i are going to give the wine thing a go this year, seems i have aquired a taste for the stuff, have a good friend that has been brewing his own for about 20 years, his wine is great, so hopefuly i will have a batch soon, apparently the first couple as your learning is more like pop! but i likes pop!
That's another thing you could talk to Marty (well, probably Nanci) about. When I was there this summer Nanci filled me up with her homemade wine on several occasions. Vino supreme-o!!
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I am a retired master brewer and just happen to have the pilot brewery from my last brewing job in my garage, do tend to make a tasty beer every now and again. Currently a pumpkin beer and brown ale on draft.
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I tried cyser but it smelled like feet.
Depends on who's feet I reckon.
Yours....eeeeewwww
Jessica Alba's - mmmm tasty
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Are his feet as hairy as his back? 
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