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I do but not for the usual (well usualish) reasons - mostly because I like overhopped beer... mostly I start from Hambledon Bard dry kits these days, but jack up the hop content... tonight I just tapped the overhopped "Olde English" (risky thing to do in Scotland ) and I feel three sheets to the wind after 2½ pints - I think it's the first time I've felt alcoholically "merry" in about 15 years...
I'll get the inevitable "homebrew went wrong" story out there now....
When I first started messing around with brewing, I was about 16 or 17 and like you do when you're young and silly when it said "2lb sugar" you slipped 2½ in, when it said 1tsp for priming I slipped 2 in etc. So there were 40 bottles in the garage all crown-capped and primed when suddenly at about 3am there was a bang as the first bottle exploded (cap still in place as it turned out) which seemingly set off a chain reaction and over the next 30 minutes about 30 of the bottles "bought it" - each one sounding like a rifle shot as it went off.
Dad wasn't impressed by the smell that lingered in his garage for about 3 months :lol: I was too busy crying over the lost beer to care.
I'll get the inevitable "homebrew went wrong" story out there now....
When I first started messing around with brewing, I was about 16 or 17 and like you do when you're young and silly when it said "2lb sugar" you slipped 2½ in, when it said 1tsp for priming I slipped 2 in etc. So there were 40 bottles in the garage all crown-capped and primed when suddenly at about 3am there was a bang as the first bottle exploded (cap still in place as it turned out) which seemingly set off a chain reaction and over the next 30 minutes about 30 of the bottles "bought it" - each one sounding like a rifle shot as it went off.
Dad wasn't impressed by the smell that lingered in his garage for about 3 months :lol: I was too busy crying over the lost beer to care.