Homebrew

[THE_Liam]

How much does this stuff cost? Surely gonna be cheaper, quicker and taste better just to buy some of whatever you're trying to make.

Once you've bought all the gear you can make 40 pints of lager for between £10 and £20 depending on the quality of the ingredients, but that's using the ready made kits like I am, if you start with the base ingredients (malt, hops, brewing sugar, brewers yeast, carbonation tabs) you can make 40 pints for around £8. That compares to 40 pints of decent premium strength lager from the supermarket pretty well, considering the best offer at Asda near me is 20 cans of Fosters for £18, that's about 15-17 pints of a weaker beer. Or about £120 in a pub

Just bottled mine, took a reading and it was coming up about 6% which is a bit stronger than I wanted but I did stick in extra sugar just to be sure. It's a beautiful amber colour, looked very drinkable but seeing as its flat I didn't try it, just siphoned it into bottles and dropped a carbonation tab in each one, I'll report back in about 6 weeks