U-Brew It Opens in Canberra

I went and checked out the facility with a mate a week ago. VERY professional. They were very happy to show us around and provide a free 500ml can tester of 4.8% Cream Ale. *Very* nice stuff.

We’re currently getting a crew of 6 together to give it a crack in the new year as you get the 6th brew for free and it works out at about .70c a 345ml stubby. Price depends on beer type. If you stuff your brew you get the next FREE too. But with their tuition and top grade ingredients I would suspect this doesn’t happen much.

I’ll be *very* surprised if another one doesn’t open too long on the north side. There’s 17 franchises so far around Australia.

Check it out !

http://www.u-brew-it.com.au

I’m definitely up for a tour. Do they have bottles for sale? I find the Coopers plastic brown longnecks are the most useful, since they aren’t fragile and don’t explode leaving broken glass everywhere.

Interesting idea, I’ve heard the name before I think but never knew this is how they operated. I’m keen for a few batches for the holidays.

My mates and I used to home brew through Uni, no money for packaged beer in those days. I still have about three dozen largies full of beer from about 4 years ago and a heap of stubbies and largies ready to be used. I’d be keen to try these guys out. Like many others would still love to home brew but its a tough act with the kids at your feet wanting to help etc.

Gas your own – I have 2 taps on the outside of my fridge – 2ndary fermentation is a thing of the past…

Sounds like the perfect ‘blokes’ Christmas present! Anyone have any ballpark figures on costs to prepare me, so I don’t ring them and then fall to the ground when I hear the prices?

Finally!!! And I’m moving to Brisbane )-: My cousin bought some of his U-Brew It beer from Geelong one Christmas. Fantastic stuff. Crisp, clear, commercial quality without the nasty chemicals. I checked it out in Geelong about a year ago and have been salivating ever since. Now it arrives, and I’m leaving )-:

I’d be in for this, as I hate sterilising everything (altho I’m a bit of a nazi, as I have never had an off brew), and bottling. So rocking up to have everything sterile and a canning machine would be great.

Won’t be the sanitiser, that just stops bad yeasts, which will still produce CO2 so will still carbonate, just will taste off. I wonder if you’re capping properly after bottling; getting any leaks out of the caps? Laying the bottles on their sides?

They are not! I used them my first brew, and talk about insipid. Went to sugar after that, and it adds a real zing. But I’m still underwhelmed with my carbonation. Starting to suspect the sanitiser I’m using. Can’t be anything else! Have eliminated every other possibility.

Carbonation drops are the answer, basically a barley sugar shaped to go down the bottles neck, keep them away from lolly guzzling girlfriends.

perfect every time.