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Last January for farmer J's birthday I brought him a home brewing kit, firstly because in his dreams he wants a micro brewery and secondly there is only one type of British beer, Spitfire sold at the supermarket and a little expensive it is.  Yes there are many Belgium and French beers but there alcohol content is far higher (and they are not quiet like an English beer on a Sunday, apparently) plus brewing your own works out far cheaper although don't take into account the number of bottles of beer needed to be drunk in order to be able to reuse them!

In order to make the beer it has to be kept at a constant temperature while it is fermenting so its had to wait a while as only the past fortnight has it been keeping at 19 degrees in the bathroom, the heater was on for a few days when temperature got down a bit and a beery smell started to take over the bathroom but today it was bottled.

Lots of washing, sterilising, rinsing and draining bottles later and waiting for the beer to settle as it was moved it has now been bottled, sugar added, sealed and put down in the cave as needs to be left for a fortnight. Just in case it should have a elderflower champagne incident (exploding in the bottle) the fifty bottles are sitting in a plastic crate waiting.

There's still another kit to make, however no more beer needs to be brought as bottles, tops and crown capper machine (it puts the metal tops on the bottles) have already been purchased!

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