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**MikeH** · August 24, 2009, 05:48

I tasted it!

**Dinner** · August 24, 2009, 08:27

Mine?

**Japher** · August 24, 2009, 08:45

Never ask another male to taste your scumpy... that's just wrong

**MikeH** · August 24, 2009, 09:38

Originally posted by Oerdin View Post

Mine?

Yeah.

**chequita guevara** · August 24, 2009, 10:19

Originally posted by Oerdin View Post

The reason they explode is because he puts to much priming sugar when he bottles them or because he hasn't racked the beer long enough before bottling it. He shouldn't feel bad because most people make mistakes and that's part of the fun. Hell, when I tried to make English Scrumpy I made the mistake of filling the carboy to full so when I had a vigorous fermentation going so junk blocked the airlock and the entire thing went off like a volcano. I had apple junk caked on my ceiling and I swear **** was stuck to the drapes a dozen feet away. It was a mess.

Is that why you never sent me a bottle?

**KrazyHorse** · August 24, 2009, 12:09

I took a bottle home with me. It was quite good. God knows how the **** Oerdin managed to smuggle half a dozen bottles of home-brewed alcohol with him onto an airplane.

**MikeH** · August 24, 2009, 12:28

Especially as it resembled toxic waste.

**KrazyHorse** · August 24, 2009, 12:30

I strained it before drinking.

**Dinner** · August 24, 2009, 16:45

Yeah, there was to much yeast and pectin floating around in it plus those bottles hadn't aged enough. After about a year of aging and a good filtering it was ok though still slightly skunky. I blame the raw meat for the skunkiness but it was all part of the experiment.

**Sprayber** · August 24, 2009, 18:56

A friend of mine brewed beer for a long time before his wife got tired of not having her basement. First batches were awful but he got really good at it. He did always ***** though about being careful with the bottles and having us return them.

**Dinner** · August 24, 2009, 19:25

New bottles can be expensive. By far the best way is to buy beer in bottles and drink the beer because it costs the same to just buy new empty bottles.

**Jon Miller** · August 31, 2009, 02:28

So they gave up and tossed it. I Don't think it wasd doing anything.

We could have added yeast up to Tuesday, I Think, we didn't know that... it was recoverable!

I only spent 5 hours eating and helping them today. Yeah, that was a lot longer than I would think, but most of the time was spent eating and chatting and joking around just now.

I think that they spent 12 hours.

This time multiple sets of yeast were bought, and the first one didn't seem to take, but the second one did. This put in, and it was already showing happy signs when we left to eat a bit and hang out a couple of hours ago.

JM

**Dinner** · August 31, 2009, 04:52

12 hours is really long. Making beer is a lot like baking bread and should take about the same amount of time not counting the week for fermination where you just let it sit in a cool dark place. Temperature does matter but I doubt your beer was actually bad. If you guys want to try again I would suggest getting a how to book as it can teach you a lot about the basics and what to expect; personally I use the New Complete Joy of Home Brewing and it can be a good cheap way to learn the tricks of the trade.

http://www.amazon.com/New-Complete-Joy-Home-Brewing/dp/0380763664

**Jon Miller** · August 31, 2009, 10:12

They have read several books.

12 hours really is long, but most of that time was spent boiling/etc.

Our previous 'beer' hadn't fermented at all in about a week.

JM

**Jon Miller** · August 31, 2009, 12:08

Apparently our lid blew off.

Help?

JM

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