How can I make a decent beer with no equipment???

Oz · Post by Oz » Tuesday May 01, 2007 6:59 pm

Hi,

My husband and I are living in a country that does not tolerate alcohol - it's illegal. My husband has made a batch which gives a bit of a kick but is really flat and tasteless. Because of where we live, we don't have access to any beer brewing kits. We have non alcoholic beer which my husband used last time, plus sugar and yeast. I even have some hops coming over that i packed with my household goods from the previous country we were living in but that will take a while to get here.

I would be so grateful if someone could give me a rudimentary recipe, keeping in mind we have none of the sophisticated ingredients or equipment that is usually used.

Cheers,
Oz

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Tuesday May 01, 2007 7:52 pm

If you can get hold of any fermentables then you are in business..

Eg: honey
Malt
Sugar
Dextrose
etc etc
Add some hops to taste and some yeast and voila beer..

Depending on the ingredients that you can get hold of then this may depend on the quality of your beer but where there is a will there is a way..

Can you get hold of some dried malt??

Oz · Post by Oz » Tuesday May 01, 2007 8:58 pm

THANKS lethaldog. Actually I also packed away some good malt from a beer brewing place in Switzerland (where we lived before moving from Australia) so that's on it's way too! I'll check out and see if they have anything here too.

By the way, apart from ingredients, do you recommend a certain way of making the beer yourself?

Cheers
Oz

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Tuesday May 01, 2007 9:16 pm

Well for example:

you could use say 2.5kg of ldme, boiled for 60 mins with hop additions of say for example you were making an apa.

try the malt
25gm NB at 60 mins
25gm cascade at 30 mins
25gm cascade at 15 mins
15gm cascade at 5 mins
make up to 22 litres

use a us-56 or simillar and ferment for a week or so then rack or bottle and that should be a very nice beer..

all depends on what sort of beer you want to make but thats just one example.

buscador · Post by **buscador** » Tuesday May 01, 2007 10:42 pm

Could I ask what country you are living in?

And if you cannot obtain these the items above for any reason, I would advise looking into Mead. I've been keen to try my hand at one, seeing that its made from mostly honey. May take a bit longer to brew, but from what I've been reading it's the wine of the gods!

Good Brews,
b

hoohaaman · Post by **hoohaaman** » Wednesday May 02, 2007 2:39 am

I'd like yo know the country too,because not to many countries u cant get product into?

hoohaaman · Post by **hoohaaman** » Wednesday May 02, 2007 2:47 am

Buscadoor,put your cascade away man,where spiking drinks belgian style
sazz.n/b tett

Longrasser · Post by **Longrasser** » Wednesday May 02, 2007 8:11 am

If youre in the sandpit with the raggifarians be very very careful

Green Horn · Post by **Green Horn** » Wednesday May 02, 2007 9:47 am

What country do you speak of? As a beer drinking Aussie I say we lobby our Government to pressure this inhumane nation to allow consumption of sweet, sweet beer

Cheers,

Mick

pixelboy · Post by **pixelboy** » Wednesday May 02, 2007 1:08 pm

I bet she's in Saudi Arabia.. mate of mine was there for 2 years.. he resorted to making wine from ribena

nt · Post by nt » Wednesday May 02, 2007 2:41 pm

It is illegal to brew in Thailand unless you got a microbrewery license or something.

TommyH · Post by **TommyH** » Wednesday May 02, 2007 4:15 pm

I would say the couple need advice on "how to brew" without any of the equipment we find available here. i.e. coopers brew kits etc.

perhaps open fermenting in plastic pales covered with food wrap. (gladwrap)

Maybe some of the "more knowledgeable" could chip in with some advise

Wassa · Post by **Wassa** » Wednesday May 02, 2007 8:29 pm

What you could try is the following, with ingredients you should be able to get in any country. Mind you it won't be good beer, but any beer is better than no beer.

Try 2 kilo of biscuit makers malt.
Dissolve this in about 3 litres of good old water.
Add 500gm of decent honey uintil dissolved
Add hops, any hops but preferably Hallertau, Saaz or Tettnanger. Mind you Cacsade, fuggles, goldings, amarillo will do in the following:
20gm for 60 min
20gm at 45 min
15gm at 30 min
15gm at flame out

Make up to 20 to 22 litres and add yeast. Preferably a decent brewing yeast, but if not then any port in the storm.

It'll be beer Jim, but noty as we know it.........GOD I love Star Trek.

buscador · Post by **buscador** » Wednesday May 02, 2007 9:00 pm

hoohaa-
wat are you smoking

i didnt even bring up cascade, although if youve got it
flaunt it, unless yer in a country that doesnt like BEER

b

Link · Post by **Link** » Thursday May 03, 2007 12:11 pm

Oh, just don't do it. If you really need a drink that badly, either move or go on holiday.

From what I understand about most of the countries where alcohol is illegal, it really is just best to avoid it altogether. They are usually pretty hard line and I doubt the memory of a beer that you've brewed in the sink using sugar cubes and lawn seed is going to add much light to the nights you might end up spending in a Saudi gaol.

Beer is good, but not that good.

I'd also caution others to maybe think twice before promoting or assisting an illegal activity on a public forum.

Most places have some sort of local, legal drug - in Oz it's alcohol. Find out what your's is and take that instead.

Good luck.

NickMoore · Post by **NickMoore** » Thursday May 03, 2007 3:48 pm

Link wrote:I'd also caution others to maybe think twice before promoting or assisting an illegal activity on a public forum.

Get yourself a good lawyer Wassa, or you'll be doing some time - Saudi-style

What'll probably happen is the Saudi Government will apply to have you extradited, which the Australian Government will allow of course.

You'll be flown over there, handcuffed to two burly Federal Police officers who will hand you over to their Saudi counterparts.

You'll be given a preliminary flogging, before standing trial where you'll be convicted (and rightly so because you're guilty as sin). You'll then be flogged again and then sent to a maximum security jail where you'll spend the next 20 years shifting sand from pile to pile.

Good luck man.

And let Wassa's sad story serve as a warning to others about the dangers of biscuit makers' malt.

TommyH · Post by **TommyH** » Thursday May 03, 2007 3:54 pm

And apart from that
NO BEER

buscador · Post by **buscador** » Thursday May 03, 2007 6:33 pm

Final Verdict-

MOVE HOME!

MOVE HOME NOW!

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Thursday May 03, 2007 7:17 pm

Link wrote:
I'd also caution others to maybe think twice before promoting or assisting an illegal activity on a public forum.

Good luck.

Last time i checked it was still legal to answer a question!!!

blandy · Post by **blandy** » Thursday May 03, 2007 8:04 pm

At least in this country, Lethal.

Either that or the Feds will start investigating anyone from Aus who's posted in the spirits section of this forum.