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muddy wrote:2/ Although this is not advice, it was from a HBS owner (I will admit the shop had been recently purchased and is run by this guys wife , but it doesnt get much better from her) :

"What do you do with the grain mate, just chuck it in the fermenter with the can and the sugar?"

Which store was this?

Cheers

A few more for ya :

Only put 10L in your 18L keg - it gases better

To sanitize your fermenter use bleach and leave it for
a day or two.

Just rinse out your bottles with hot water and bottle again.

I HAD 4 neighbors over the age of 50 giving me this GREAT advice, you can guess how their beer tastes and why they seemed to make it over to my place every day to " have a beer with me".

Bought a BeerMachine online after a reccomendation from a friend ...... had never homebrewed so thought I would give it a go. Directions said 5 days fermentation and 5 days artificial carbonation in the fridge and brink "real" beer right from the keg. As you can guess it was not pleasent. $200 not well spent for one 10L brew !!! Anyway put up some signs at the local University and managed to recover $150....... lucky me!! The two guys who turned up to buy it were so excited that they were making their own beer for their party in two weekends ....... two more people who will never brew again.

Anyway, luckily I didnt give up and managed to make a decent brew by my second attempt using more conventional methods.

See it here if you want to see some clever marketing but DO NOT BUY!!!!

http://www.beermachine.com/

Cheers

Chris wrote:The worst homebrewing advice ever? Read the Coopers booklet...

The Cooper's kit video....

Re: the Coopers vid,
Thats not fair what about the lovely assistant ?
That's great advice to get one involved no..

hehe

cmon... how can you trust anyone that is well known for dancing like a pansy LOL

appologies for those who appreciate ballroom dancing

Borat will really love him!

the only bad advice i got about HBS is don't bother.

ny 1st two batches have been failures. but what the heck, its a darn cheap hobby, (compared to my others, computers, juggling, unicycling....) and i'm sure i can make an awesome beer if i keep at it...

The video assistant IS pretty much worth the 15mins.

Chris wrote:The video assistant IS pretty much worth the 15mins.

BUT, she isn't NUDE...

As the joke says, how do you impress a man?

Turn up nude and bring beer...

I don't know if this is bad advise as I have never actually attempted. One of my brew came out a little flat and I was talking to a friend about beer when I happened to mention this batch.
His advise was ' 1/4 cup of hot water, mix 6 teaspoon of sugar and put in fridge for 24hrs. In the mean time chill 12 tallies. After the 24hrs put 1.5 teaspoons in each bottle. Leave a couple of weeks and presto flat beer gone'.
My reply to him was that I won't use carbo drops ever again.
If anyone has attempted this, how did you go? Good results or crap.......

if you put in the right amount of sugar then i can't see why it wouldn't work unless the yeast had gone dormant.

its a darn cheap hobby, (compared to my others, computers, juggling, unicycling....)

Yeah, because juggling can really sting ya! Just don't drink and unicycle, dude.

got a pearla today, although it wasn't really advice...

mixing your beer with lemonade increases the alcohol content...

oh and not to mention drinking Old (Tooheys i'm assuming) causes memory loss...

is it just me or doesn't ALL alcohol cause that effe...........what was i talking about?

Mixing beer with lemonade increase alcohol... Where do people come up with that. It just defies common sense.

Since when is common sense all that common. Myths are much more fun anyway

Common sense is even less common in HBing.

People want to mystify all the processes, usually because of a lack of understanding. Non-brewers are bad, but HBers are worse!

must be all that beer we drink. Does something to the brain.

Ill vouche for that

The worst brewing advise I got was the first and that was on the side of the can. " just add 1kg cane sugar" But I got over it , It still worked.