Friday, December 20, 2013

Drink: Liquor - How To Homebrew A Beer

Materials/Stuffs and Ingredients:

- 6 lbs malt
- Hops (1 oz Galena Hops (pellet) & 1/2 oz Fuggles Hops (pellets))
- 1 20 qt. stock pot
- 7 gm Red Star Ale yeast or 14 gm Whitbread Ale yeast
- Water (H2O)
- 1 7.6 Gallon Food-Grade plastic bucket with tight fitting lid and airlock
- Heat (preferably a stovetop)
- 1 long charasamatic wooden spoon
- A cool place to put your beer while it's fermenting
- 2 cases of empty RETURNABLE pints (16 oz.)
- Lot-O-bottle caps and a capper
- Hydrometer
- Thermometer

Procedure:

1. Bring 1.5 gallons of cold H2O to boil and add 6 lbs. of Muntons and Fisons Amber Dry Malt.
2. Stir it so it doesn't stick to the bottom.
3. Add 1 oz. of either Northern Brewers Hops (pellets) or 1 oz. of Galena Hops (pellets).
4. Bring it back to boil and keep it boiling for 45 min. Boiling not simmering.
5. 5 minutes before the time is up add 1/2 oz. Fuggles Hops (pellets).
6. Pour this boiling concoction into your sterilized fermenting bucket along with enough H2O to make 5 gallons.
7. Put the Thermometer and the Hydrometer in the bucket too.
8. When the temp. is around 70 degree fahrenheit add either 7 grams Red Star Ale yeast or 14
grams Whitbread Ale yeast.
9. Pitch the yeast by sprinkling it on top, letting it sit for 5 min. then stirring it in.
10. Put the lid on with the airlock and leave it alone for 7 days.
11. Again use the Hydrometer to check the Specific Gravity on the 7th day and
12. again on the 8th day, If the reading are the same, bottle it!
13. To bottle, sterilize your bottles then siphon the beer in to another bucket or your stock pot, add 3/4 cup corn sugar (Make a simple syrup with 2 cups H2O and the 3/4 cupcorn sugar) siphon into your bottles and cap them.
14. Wait about 2 weeks before you drink your new home brewed beer. The longer you leave it in the bottle the better it will become.
15. Enjoy your beer :)

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Drink: Liquor - How To Make Some Mixed Beverages For Any Occasion

(Warning: Alcohol content)

Drink:  Dry Martini
Ingredients:  4 parts gin (or vodka);  1 part DRY vermouth
Procedure: Stir with cracked ice; strain into glass.  Add green olive or a twist of lemon peel.

Drink: Manhattan
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Bourbon (or rye);  1/2 oz. sweet vermouth;  Dash of Angostura bitters (optional)
Procedure: Stir with cracked ice and strain into glass.  Add a cherry.

Drink: Sour
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Bourbon (or rye);  3/4 oz. fresh lemon juice;  1 teaspoon sugar
Procedure: Shake with cracked ice; strain into glass.  Add orange slice on rim of glass and a cherry.

Drink: Bloody Mary
Ingredients: 3 oz. tomato juice;  1/2 oz. lemon juice;  Dash of Worchestershire sauce;  1 1/2 oz. vodka
Procedure: Add salt and pepper to taste.  Shake with cracked ice; strain into six oz. glass.

Drink: Gimlet
Ingredients: 4 parts gin (or vodka);  1 part sweetened lime juice
Procedure: Shake with cracked ice and strain into a cocktail glass.  Serve with small slice of fresh lime.\

Drink: Daiquiri
Ingredients: Juice from 1/2 lime or 1/4 lemon;  1 teaspon sugar; 1 1/2 oz. light rum
Procedure: Shake thoroughly with cracked ice, until the shaker frosts. Strain into cocktail glass.

Drink: Whiskey Collins
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Whiskey;  Juice of 1/4 lime;  7-up
Procedure: Mix whiskey and lime juice in a tall glass. Add ice cubes; fill with 7-up.

Drink: Old-fashioned
Ingredients: Dash of Angostura bitters; 1/2 teaspoon sugar; 1/2 oz. sparkling water; 1 1/2 oz. whiskey
Procedure: Stir bitters, sugar, and water in glass; add ice cubes, and whiskey. Add twist of lemon peel, orange slice, and cherry.

Drink: Margarita
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Tequila;  1/2 oz. Triple Sec;  1 oz. fresh lime or lemon juice
Procedure: Moisten cocktail glass with fruit rind; spin rim in salt. Shake ingredients with cracked ice. Strain into glass.  Sip over rim.

Drink: Screwdriver
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Vodka;  orange juice
Procedure: Put ice cubes in six-oz. glass. Add vodka; fill with orange juice; stir.

Drink: Bacardi
Ingredients: Juice of 1/2 lime (or lemon);  1/2 teaspon sugar; one teaspoon grenadine;  1 1/2 oz. Bacardi rum
Procedure: Shake well with cracked ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Drink: Tequila Sunrise
Ingredients: 2-3 dashes grenadine; orange juice; 1 1/2 oz. of Tequila
Procedure: Put grenadine into eight-oz. glass. Fill with ice cubes. Add tequila. Fill with orange juice. Do not stir.

Drink: Whiskey Wallbanger
Ingredients: 1 oz.  Whiskey;  1/2 oz. Liquore Gilliano; Orang  juice
Procedure: Fill tall glass with ice cubes. Add liquors. Fill with orange juice; stir.

Drink: Gin 'n Tonic
Ingredients: Juice and rind of 1/4 lime;  1 1/2 oz gin; tonic water (Schweppes is reccommended)
Procedure: Squeeze lime over ice cubes in tall glass and add rind. Pour in gin; fill with tonic and stir.

Drink: Sombrero
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. coffee liquer; chilled milk
Procedure: Fill eight-oz. glass with ice cubes. Add liquer; fill with milk; stir.

Drink: Stinger
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. brandy;  3/4 oz. white creme de menthe
Procedure: Shake with cracked ice;  strain into glass.

Drink: Pina Colada
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. rum;  1 oz. cream of coconut;  2 oz. Pineapple juice
Procedure: Shake with 1/2 cup crushed ice (use a blender). Pour into a tall glass filled with ice cubes. Add a chery.

Drink: Rob Roy
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Scotch;  3/4 oz. sweet vermouth; dash of Angostura bitters
Procedure: Stir with cracked ice; strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel. This drink is often called a "Scotch Manhattan".

Drink: Black Russian
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. vodka;  3/4 oz. coffee liquer
Procedure: Shake with cracked ice; strain over ice cubes in a pre-chilled short glass (slightly larger than a teacup).

Drink: Scarlett O'Harra
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz whiskey;  juice of 1/4 lime; 1 1/2 oz. cranberry juice cocktain (Ocean Spray)
Procedure: Shake with cracked ice; strain into a glass.