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I ve downloaded yesterday some e-books on how to brew your own homemade beer. I ve been thinking about this for years ever since I watched some British fellow students of mine in the UK brewing their own beer and then enjoying it for months. Has anybody tried to brew beer before ... Are there any hints or tips that would be useful for a beginner like I am?
I have done this before. When I did this, I bought a "kit" system, with all the equipment and generic ingredients for the first batch. After that, I experimented with more specific and carefully selected ingredients.
They may have different requirements, regulations and methods in the Greece, I'm not sure. Here in the U.S., you can buy a kit from "Mr. Beer" http://store.mrbeer.com/index.html or other places like it.
You can get hundreds of recipes online of course. It's a fun hobby and the reward of serving your own home brew to friends (or footgirls) is great.
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i tried it once with my grandads brewing equipment, it worked because the drink put me on my arse but it tasted like crap
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I see! I doubt it though that are any specialised shops in selling "brewing" kits like the ones I ve seen on sites abroad. I m planning to use kitchen equipment for the majority of them, but I think I ll have to buy a liquodometer and liquid temperature glass.
I ve bought some e-books on how to brew your own homemade beer. It was a dream for me for ages ever since I watched, as told before, all those fellow students brew their own beer and waiting patiently (some others impatiently) for the beer to be ready.
Are all the ingredients easy to find and buy, do you think? I mean yeast, hops etc... arent so popular to find comparing them to sugar or water.
It sounds like a fun project and I'm sure you'll be brewing up some great beverage. I'd actually like to try making some home brew using standard kitchen equipment, as you are doing.
The reason why I used a kit when I did this, was just so that I could get standardized results and great consistencey from one batch to another.
Let us know how this works out.
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It goes with slow pace.I ve just printed the e-book, which has 257 pages! I m going tommorow to read what ingredients I need so that I ll go downtown to the mall, where there are shops which sell herbs and stuff.
Other than that as far as I ve read every other equipment can be found in the kitchen.
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The Rednecks near us have the perfect brewing solution. Take an extremly cheap hairspray product,(Suave is their best preferance); take a neutral sized hanky;( without the snot rolls is a preferance, but such rolls may be added for spice). Place said hanky over a medium sized cup, and spray contents of hairspray through hanky into cup. Drink up! Just kiddin, we bought a do it yourself from wal mart, and some friends told us to add more sugar to make it more alcoholic<you know.....But addin more sugar seemed to make it taste shittier.
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Speaking of making beer this kind of reminds me of that old 3 Stooges short where they make their own home brew during prohibition and land themselves in jail.
quote:Originally posted by Gimme: it's not illegal is it?
No, what I'm referring to for you non-Americans was a period in our short history where alcohol WAS illegal (1919 to 1933). However this wasn't only something happening in the US (check the link below). Making it illegal basically increased crime rates and made criminals out of just you typical average Joe who just wanted to drink a beer. I don't do drugs of any sort, but I would say the same is probably true of laws against the use of marijuana today.
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