(05-08-2012, 09:49 AM)InkedMuttley Wrote: When I was a little bit younger me and my mates used to make our own fruit Vodka...get a few bottles of Tesco's cheapest firewater and a big bag of Skittles or 2, seperate the colours, then add red skittles to a 2 litre bottle, pour vodka in, shake it up and leave it for a couple of days (best done at start of week) then when the liquid has gone the same colour as the sweets you used and the sweets have gone white. drain liquid through a sieve into a bowl or something and taste that motherfucking rainbow!!!

We used to get severely wasted and if you feel like it you can even eat the sweets you've used as they take on some of the vodka, even better!

(05-08-2012, 07:25 PM)Dum-Dum Wrote: You know your air lock is shut in the photo right

(05-08-2012, 08:43 PM)THE_Liam Wrote:

(05-08-2012, 07:25 PM)Dum-Dum Wrote: You know your air lock is shut in the photo right

No mate, it was open, my camera phone is shite

How's your cider getting on? Did you get your demijohn from Wilko's? They're on sale for a fiver

(05-08-2012, 08:52 PM)THE_Liam Wrote: These are big glass ones though, are yours PET for that price? Even if they are, that's damn cheap...

(06-08-2012, 03:34 AM)Diggers Wrote:

(05-08-2012, 08:52 PM)THE_Liam Wrote: These are big glass ones though, are yours PET for that price? Even if they are, that's damn cheap...

Yep glass ones, the reason they cheep is there second hand lol but sometimes that's better for flavor, like aged oak for whisky

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(06-08-2012, 03:34 AM)Diggers Wrote: Yep glass ones, the reason they cheep is there second hand lol but sometimes that's better for flavor, like aged oak for whisky

Quote:Towicz - Malina syrop owocowy

In asda in the UK I came across this Raspberry drink in the polish (foreign) food aisle.
One of the girls stocking the shelves saw me looking at it and trying to figue out what it was, she told me she loved it so I thought I'd give it a try. It was only £1 a bottle and when I got home I saw it had no preservatives colours or other nasty chemicals in it this combined with the fact I had a spare 5L demi gave me burst of inspiration:

The full 440ml of “Syrop owocowy” ((Raspberry stuff))
4.5L water
400g white sugar
1 flat teaspoon of yeast

Its getting colder in my house so took just over a week to ferment out
Racked and bottled and primed with about 45 grams of sugar.
Delicious after about 2 weeks,
Brilliant colour fizz and taste well worth a go.
ABV about 5.5% (use less sugar if you want it any weaker)

After the great success I had with this recipe I just had to share it
and have since been back to asda and found they have a cherry version muhaha
it will be ready in about a week and will post my verdict here if anyone takes an interest!

(06-08-2012, 01:17 PM)THE_Liam Wrote: This really is becoming a homebrew forum

Beer competition for FCS?

(06-08-2012, 10:03 AM)cully Wrote: found another cheap recipy
using polish ingredents that were on offer £1 a bottle for the syrup
got mine from tescos

going to give it a go

copy and paste from here

http://jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=37444

Quote:Towicz - Malina syrop owocowy

In asda in the UK I came across this Raspberry drink in the polish (foreign) food aisle.
One of the girls stocking the shelves saw me looking at it and trying to figue out what it was, she told me she loved it so I thought I'd give it a try. It was only £1 a bottle and when I got home I saw it had no preservatives colours or other nasty chemicals in it this combined with the fact I had a spare 5L demi gave me burst of inspiration:

The full 440ml of “Syrop owocowy” ((Raspberry stuff))
4.5L water
400g white sugar
1 flat teaspoon of yeast

Its getting colder in my house so took just over a week to ferment out
Racked and bottled and primed with about 45 grams of sugar.
Delicious after about 2 weeks,
Brilliant colour fizz and taste well worth a go.
ABV about 5.5% (use less sugar if you want it any weaker)

After the great success I had with this recipe I just had to share it
and have since been back to asda and found they have a cherry version muhaha
it will be ready in about a week and will post my verdict here if anyone takes an interest!

(06-08-2012, 05:41 PM)cully Wrote: just picked up 2 free demijohns from freecycle

now to wash them out and start my batch

(06-08-2012, 06:15 PM)lolsteve Wrote: Aha never thought this thread would take off this much. Glad peoples student brews are going well, mine always taste like arse, maybe because I use breast yeast and leave in the sun. Who knows?

I've gotten 3 demijohns from bootsales, normally about a £ a demijohn

(06-08-2012, 07:44 PM)sean-306 Wrote: That cider, with the 5 bottles of tesco own brand apple juice will taste like shit!

I almost puked just looking at it lol!!

Sorry to be offensive haha!!

Id love to have a go but i dont no if the RAF would appreciate me making home brew in my room!!

(06-08-2012, 07:44 PM)sean-306 Wrote: That cider, with the 5 bottles of tesco own brand apple juice will taste like shit!

(06-08-2012, 08:00 PM)Dum-Dum Wrote:

(06-08-2012, 07:44 PM)sean-306 Wrote: That cider, with the 5 bottles of tesco own brand apple juice will taste like shit!

Do you know this from experience or are you just assuming or going on rumors from people who have also never made it.

It certainly smells good.