disease/sickness whereas you'd wake up each morning and cough until you spewed, unable to breathe. I honestly thought I was dying.
seriously, we had all drunk these 'beer factory' beers and we all had the same thing. You'd be unable to breathe and cough so hard you spew just trying to breathe. not cool ^_^ it went on for months, the doctor had no idea what it was.
you may aswell just do your own K&K and filter it, that's all these guys do basically.
I'm new to the forums and wouldn't have stumbled across this place (or decided to get into brewing) if it wasn't for u brew it. I don't know what the beers are like from there yet but I'm going to bottle my Duvel clones on Wednesday so should know by Christmas.
It's a different process to brewing at home as the guys above describe, you pretty much just mix it, bottle it and drink it.... there's no actual brewing involved.
As for the poor quality of the beers, as pointed out, they are franchise operations and I don't think they would still be in business if the beers were crap and made you sick. Sorry to hear about you experience though quantocks, sure hope mine don't turn out like that.
Anyway, for me it was a stepping stone and will get me through until I can get some gear together to brew at home. I have a couple of recipes I've found for Trois Pistoles which is my beer of choice....but at $140 a carton it's not in the fridge very often in carton quantities.
So I guess what I'm getting at is Give it a go and see if you enjoy 'making' (read: mixing) your own beer, if you do then get some gear together and move to homebrewing.
Edit : Don't listen to Q's complaint, I think it's a bit over the top. A poor beer is a poor beer, but to make you sick it must have been infected. If it was infected, you'd taste it and not drink it. It could just as easily been poor bottle cleanliness and some kind of food poisoning. I doubt Q's and his mates experience had much to do with the general output of these places.
Hazz, if interested, give it a try. The only way to correctly assess value and performance is to stick your money down and taste the end result.
I'll say it's probably just a once off infection we had in a batch, but the first batch we could sink 20 bottles in an arvo and not be pissed. So with the "Beer Factory" we went to, (not sure how U-Brew-It operate), but to drink 20 beers and not even get a tingle and then drink the next batch and be violently ill, we all decided to give this place a miss.
again, I'm sure some people brew average beers here. Just not my experience.
not crap kits reviled, crap brewer
What went wrong buddy?
but most of the people running them seem pretty clueless
I think reviled was referring to his signature, which used to include a "Tipped down the sink:..." line.have you even read this thread? lol.
Hazz, if interested, give it a try. The only way to correctly assess value and performance is to stick your money down and taste the end result.
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