Cult Of Games XLBS: Warren’s Back And We’re Brewing Our Own Beer Now?!
July 25, 2021 by brennon
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Its’ the XLBS SHOW…………..Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs!
Happy Sunday Everyone hope you’ve all had a great week
HAPPY SUNDAY!!!!
Brewing beer is a great and easy hobby. But mead almost makes itself and is sooo much better!!!
I always struggle when I try to make beer but you’re completely right about mead. I make it regularly and could probably do it with my eyes closed lol
With the brewing thing it’s going to depend if you want to sell it or not and how much you actually want to make
I know Wurzzel on the forums has been brewing beer for a long time, not just beer, but wines and meads aswell. I think he’s on the discord too, if not I can give him a slap when when he comes around later on.
Nah I always struggle with beer, in theory it should be easy it’s only 5 ingredients but I can never get the taste right. But mead and “wine” that’s easy
Happy sunday
Happy Sunday!
One thing about the Brewery idea. How the heck are you going to export it to other parts of the UK in this f****d up Brexit mess?
By the way… “Brew Cog”?!?!
Smuggle it in empty miniboxes
How micro are you going? Have an idea of the volume you are looking to get to/ who you want to sell to first or you will waste a LOT of money!
I used to manage a cider mill that was run by a monk but the estate department had to take it on. We’d do anything from 9,000 to 20,000 bottles depending upon the crop and whether we were after apple juice, cider, or cider spirit (cider brandy). And we were classed as a micro brewery! Cleanliness is key if you are intending to sell any of it. PM me if you want a chat and I can put you in touch with our old master brewer (if I can find his number!?!??)
I don’t have a chicken story but I do have a pidgeon, a GW store and a banned customer story.
There was this customer who’d been coming to store for a few weeks and had been warned about his behaviour. It got to the point where the staff member(Fabian) banned him. Well later that day the customer returned to the store. Whereby he was asked to leave, the customer stood there and suddenly removed a pigeon from under his jacket, and said; behold the pidgeon and threw it into the middle of the store, then ran off.
The funny part was then watching Fabian chase this pidgeon around the shop trying to catch it. There were feathers every where. It was trying to fly in the store, knocking stuff off shelves and tables with a frantic staffer trying to grab it lol
Did I just hear Fat Bastard by the Macc Lads… XD XD XD
Mushrooms are magic.
Sorry Ben, guilty as charged re the mushroom table at the Phoenix Burrows and Badgers tournament.. they’ll be back next year I hope
@warzan keep lovin’ the shrooms fella.. they’re the future ?????
I think when we get to space it will be like above an beyond?
Ben does a billion models without the Sun’s.
I heard someone mentioned beer?
I can top that we have Glaswegian seagulls if someone thows food it like a gangfight seagulls beating up crow’s an everything else for the food an when they run out they start on each other for the last parts.
Don’t forget to cut three feet past the damaged wood to get all the damp spores @warzan
Happy Sunday!
Oh how I havent missed code busters, glad some people enjoy it but for those with next to no free time it’s a 10 minute skip.
Glad Warren is back for a bit too just to mix it back up again. Wonder how far I’ll get into this before I get called away again.
The galaxy is on Orions Belt?
Great XL show folk’s
I’ve been brewing for a couple of years now. The best tips I can give are hygiene, hygiene and hygiene. Make sure everything is clean, so you should get better results. Also buy a good book about brewing. I can realy recommend Brouwen(dutch)/Brew by James Morton. It teaches you all the steps in the proces in an simple/fun way.
@warzan Been brewing my own beer since I first joined the seminary at the start of the year and honestly it’s pretty easy. If you’re hyper aware of germs and keep everything sanitised then you’ll be fine. Start out with the home brew kits you can buy and focus on a really good steriliser that you can safely mix with water and put in a spray bottle.
It takes about two half an hour sessions to fill the fermenter and about the same to bottle 20ish litres of beer.
Leave at least 1-2 litres of waste, that nasty shit on the bottom stinks and tastes awful so you don’t want it in your beer.
We generally let the beer sit for at least two weeks in the fermenter then a month in a bottle.
Want any tips hit me up and I’m happy to chat.
Looking forward to checking out some more Clash of Spears, now I just need to paint those minis…
Finally Richard Herring helps! The Cloaca which does all that. Richards joke is “Where does a bird leave its sexual organs when it goes to a night club? In the cloaca room.”
Happy Sunday.
Welcome back Warren. I have little interest in doing the actual brewing but I certainly have a lot of interest in drinking the results.
I’m happy codebusters is back.
Congratulations on the golden button winners, three great projects there.
Happy Sunday to the Greatest Movie ever made. wish my wife would give me XP when i have a “stab at it”.
Happy Sunday lovely people!
“I’ve bought too much” Free is now one of us, one of us!! Great to have you back Warren. I start with terrain every time too. Great job to the Golden button winners.
Happy Sunday!
00:30 Gerry being Gerry… love it!
01:55 And Ben is away…. Run Ben run!
02:55 “Oh great. I’ve been looking forward to that” – Never have I heard those words uttered with less enthusiasm XD
07:51 689238897 145218319 Bleep bleep?
11:45 Shrooooooms
16:45 CoG-Rocket!
23:00 Free dying because of how Ben simply doesn’t acknowledges Warrens two cans joke…
26:00 Is this a dog joke I’m too much of a cat person to understand?
27:00 Chicken Nuggets!
30:30 Biology 101 with Warren
43:00 rotten to the core! 😉
48:00 explosive potions? oO
52:30 @warzan call it: OTTer piss. that way you’re safe even if it turns out crap 😉
1:00:00 Evil dice
1:19:00 NMM …. no, nobody got time for this 😉
1:24:00 Moar battlereps!
Off to more coffee
Good to see you back WARREN
I brew my own beer, but I’m over in the states in a state that has the fourth highest amount of microbreweries..so yeah it’s a thing. It’s a super fun hobby its sort of like having a chemistry set but you get to drink the final product.
Hmm… I may have to load the Giftmas cannon with something special having seen this week’s episode
Happy Sunday Cogs
HA, chicken joke— first heard that one from Buddy Hackett on the Carsen show, on youtube last week!! .. omg. so funny
Cogs bog beer ! The label should be a coat of arms with a gold toilet ( the golden throne ) haha ! Sadly can’t be at ukgames expo this year I’m avoiding large gatherings for a while as a family member I’m looking after isn’t well .
But I’ve bagged a fellow brummie to be my sacrificial shopper there this weekend ? hope they have a strong back !
I’ve just spent two days chopping down and burning more garden and I would very like a beer right now.
Everyone is making beer nowadays. How about a meth lab? It’s much more exciting!
@warzan If you are looking at starting a microbrewery there’s Get ‘er brewed in Randalstown who are a supplier of brewing equipment and ingredients for those who are just making a few litres at home all the way up to those wanting to set up a microbrewery. (I have no affiliation with them) also locally to you there’s Hilltown and Bloodline microbreweries.
That was a great game of Clash of Spears, thanks Gerry, has a blast and learned my lesson well ?
Congratulations to the Golden Button winners! Good to see the Codebusters back. Let’s see if I can get anywhere with it this time…
@warzan think Andy has already mentioned having a chat with other people in micro brewing business and I think that’s the word business, Over the years I have ‘visited’ a few breweries including the most northerly one in the UK, Valhalla on Shetland,with many it started as a byline to their main business, but brewing is a pretty full time job and most found it took over their lives , so be careful and think how much time you want to put into it as well as the customer base your looking at.
I love how fascinated Free is about Warren’s stories of chickens and Ben and Gerry are just like “Yup, here he goes again.”
@warzan What sort of brewing are you looking to get into?
Small sale commercial? Small batches for OTT events? Beers? Wines? Spirits (oh lordy)?
If would start with a small home starter kit to get a feel for what you are doing and once you know you can you can then start on what you what.
When you know what you want, you can work back from there.
The two big things you’ll want to consider if you want it to be a commercial enterprise is A) what kind of yield do you want as you will likely what to have a series of batches at different stages than trying to make thousands of bottles at once as that will require a lot more space and labour intensity and B) what kind of wort do you want as the big step from doing it from yourself is moving from a store kit to making your own so it can be your beer.