As well a project car/van/hearse, I'm going to need to get the bar built pretty sharpish.
I feel the urge to get into home brewing, a batch or two of Turbo cider to drink quick, then some mead on the go for long term consumption, and a couple of different ale kits for variety.
I miss homebrewing.
Hmm I remember when I first moved into somewhere on my own, having to pay 100% of the bills and rent meant I was so skint I could hardly afford to run one car. In fact I downgraded my car three times until my boss felt sorry for me and gave me a payrise. I had all sorts of plans, even got a place with a double-length garage below the flat. Took me 2 years to get back on my feet financially after that mistake : (
Yeah!! And cos where I live has an AGA cooker, I have a constant warm temperature kitchen in which to do it. I used to brew at university. Beer brewed with demerara sugar... strong but you wouldn't know from the taste, tastes excellent!
At Uni we made up a generic ale kit. As it happens, we must have done something right, because Lager, Bitter, and Stout drinkers liked it. Even Cider drinkers reckoned it was "OK, can I try some more".
The Turbo Cider I mentioned is a quick ferment cider made from supermarket apple juice, cold tea, concentrated lemon juice and yeast. Tastes like proper Cider, not mass produced Cider and works out about
26p a pint.Mead is just honey(cheap stuff will do), water, yeast and time (between
3 months and 3 years depending on how it tastes after the first maturation).Beer I'll just do from kits for the first few batches.
Should help save the pennies.
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