Backyard Beer Production

[GaryD]

Excellent stuff, Fishfood.

You've certainly acquired an interesting skill set in addition to your buttermaking accomplishments.

You seem to bring a professional touch to everything you do.

Gary

[Jonathan Dyer]

Hi Fishfood,

Just a quick question do you make beer with kit malt or with real grain?

[Martin A1]

I am all ears gentlemen!

I'd think that at $10-$20 a throw you can't go past a kit based liquid malt?

Jonathan have you ever made your own from real grain? I don't reckon my wheat/barley paddock would be big enough

[Jonathan Dyer]

Martin

I make everything and anything. Beer, wine, spirits I make hundreds and hundreds of liters of them all every year.

I haven’t as yet made true all grain beer it is much harder with more equipment need to convert the starches found in the grain to readily available fermentable sugars. I just need a few more things to make the entire process easer and I’m off. You don’t need much grain to make a decent batch of beer a good 100Kg of malted grain will produce 200-280L of beer (Dark heavy beers to light beers).

Tin malt is ok and a good beer can be made with it but it is still inferior to real beer.

I don’t use a beer fridge as the cost of operating a fridge is expensive and the kegs and taps cost over $300 if not more. I use 330ml bottles and as far as washing the bottles I just put them in the dishwasher with some SMS and citric acid to boost the sanitation of the SMS no cleaning on my behalf.

[fishfood]

Hi Fishfood,

Just a quick question do you make beer with kit malt or with real grain?

Hi at the moment i am lazy just use kits i am slowley collecting all the stuff for grain brewing

[Jonathan Dyer]

so fishfood whats the beer of the month?

[fishfood]

Been a bit slack latley been drinking the xmas presents [crownies ] and party leftovers [bit of everything] will get rid of a few on sunday at Jims

[Hamish]

I just found this thread - hile I am not a big beer drinker I am very impressed with the setup! Especially the wood fired oven - I have always wanted one!

[djs-sa]

i think it time to clean the brew kit ready for summer time,

last year I used the cooper's mexican with great success so i think i might stick to that to start with

[Jonathan Dyer]

The cerveza is a good all-rounder and well suited for that summers drink hitting the spot nicely.