06-29-2004, 04:01 PM
Hail Saxywoo,
let me tell you just one thing: The process of brewing beer is, timewise, directly reciprocal to the process of drinking beer. To clarify: Brewing takes quite a lot of time compared to drinking the product.
I have tried it, a few years ago, with people from my chemistry course at school (wonderful that drinking age in Germany is 16, isn't it *g*).
Anyway, it was not really that much work, but you have to be patient. Also, you need a little bit of hardware, I don't really know the names in English (basically it's a thing that seals off a bottle but lets the developiong gases through, think of an Arabian "Water pipe" and you're close to what I want to say here) and I don't know if it will be easy to get where you live.
Well, it certainly IS doable, and also nice to drink your own beer, but I think that, commercially speaking, it does not make a lot of sense to do so. Still, give it a try, having a glass of your very own beer is worth it.
If you're really interested in it, I'll call up my old mates and ask how we did it (it was something like ten years ago), and maybe I can give you some more information. On the other hand, just googling for "brewing beer" might be more useful and to the point.
Take care, says
Lord_Olf, wo has a nicely chilled Reissdorf Koelsch sitting next to his left hand at the moment
let me tell you just one thing: The process of brewing beer is, timewise, directly reciprocal to the process of drinking beer. To clarify: Brewing takes quite a lot of time compared to drinking the product.
I have tried it, a few years ago, with people from my chemistry course at school (wonderful that drinking age in Germany is 16, isn't it *g*).
Anyway, it was not really that much work, but you have to be patient. Also, you need a little bit of hardware, I don't really know the names in English (basically it's a thing that seals off a bottle but lets the developiong gases through, think of an Arabian "Water pipe" and you're close to what I want to say here) and I don't know if it will be easy to get where you live.
Well, it certainly IS doable, and also nice to drink your own beer, but I think that, commercially speaking, it does not make a lot of sense to do so. Still, give it a try, having a glass of your very own beer is worth it.
If you're really interested in it, I'll call up my old mates and ask how we did it (it was something like ten years ago), and maybe I can give you some more information. On the other hand, just googling for "brewing beer" might be more useful and to the point.
Take care, says
Lord_Olf, wo has a nicely chilled Reissdorf Koelsch sitting next to his left hand at the moment
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