[Sca-cooks] Stefan finally succeeds in making cider

[Craig Jones]

Sigh... If I had a penny for every one of these stories...  The stories
are always fun to hear (and I've made a few stories myself) but they do
scare people away from what's an easy, rewarding hobby... Offering brews
at events is a great icebreaker and 'get to know you'.  I know a vast
chunk in lochac because of this strategy...

By all means people, brew lots, brew often...

Just keep these things in mind:

a) Use a hydrometer, measure at the start and end of the ferment. Don't
bottle actively fermenting things.  Grenades are NOT fun.

b) Stay clean and sterile.  You can't kill your self with the kind of
beer that might grow in a brew but you waste ingredients.

c) If making strong brew, ensure people know the %alc and no of standard
drinks per bottle...

All leads to responsible brewing...

Drakey.

Ps. Great story Morgan.  Better than the time I left two bottles of
Cherry Stout in the freezer and forgot about them overnight.  Bottle one
exploded, the force of the blast opening the freezer door.  The second
bottle then detonated, showering the kitchen in glass and frozen
stout...


> A friend of mine gave me a bottle of root beer once.  I took it to
school
> &
> put it in my little dorm room refrigerator, where it sat for the year.
> When
> I was leaving the dorm, I took it out & set it on the counter so I
could
> clean out the ice-box.  I had just kneeled down by my desk when there
was
> a
> *mighty* bang & glass chunks flew past my head. I discovered that yes,
I
> could fit in the teeny-tiny opening under the desk.  Once I got past
the
> initial shock & started checking things out, I found that there were
holes
> in the walls & ceiling, chunks of glass embedded in same & root beer
all
> over the dorm room.  Now, mind you, I was about 3 small items away
from
> having the room clean.  Some time & a large tube of regular Crest
> toothpaste
> later (it was the same color as the walls & ceiling & hardened quite
> nicely), I tiptoed away, never to darken their doors again........
> 
> Morgan (using Caointiarn's addy)