I'm looking to find a supply store for home brewing, where I could get a basic carboy/hydrometer/capper setup and hopefully a good selection of ingredients.
But ... Is it even legal to brew your own beer here? Seems strange, but I've been searching, and no dice. Home brewing should be popular here, but I've yet to meet anyone who does it.
Anyone else on TT brew your own beer?
There are a couple of links where one can order stuff online -- (bier.de) (promille.de) (brauen.de) -- though a physical store would be better..
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I'm not sure why you think homebrewing should be popular here. I used to homebrew back in Australia, but it's simply not worth it here. Beer is so cheap, and so good, and there is so much choice, that unless you're a beer brewing enthusiast, it's much easier, cheaper and better tasting just to buy a crate a beer when you want a drink.
In Australia, beer is crap and expensive, and this was basically the only reason that anyone did it back there..
In Australia, beer is crap and expensive, and this was basically the only reason that anyone did it back there..
There are many other reasons to brew your own beer than out of sheer necessity.
My home brewing is limited to only tea and coffee. But home brewing beer sounds interesting. I'm going to have to ask my beer guzzling consuming husband about this and see what's his take. Knowing him he's probably going to say, "why home brew when there are some great beers on the market"? My reply will be " I don't know".
My take is why home brewhere in germany when the beer here as stated is cheap and excellent quality.
I used to homebrew in the early 80's as a student in Ireland when beer prices were not affordable.
Just for enlighten me, is it for the pleasure for brewing, like baking a cake, etc that you get? Coz from the kits you will maybe gat a drinkable beer, but it will be far from escellent, wheres home cooking/baking can taste excellent.
I used to homebrew in the early 80's as a student in Ireland when beer prices were not affordable.
Just for enlighten me, is it for the pleasure for brewing, like baking a cake, etc that you get? Coz from the kits you will maybe gat a drinkable beer, but it will be far from escellent, wheres home cooking/baking can taste excellent.
It is an old Munich thread, but there might be something useful for you there: home brewing
this is why... one of many reasons to do it...
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Wit
Classification: wit, Belgian ale, wheat beer, all-grain
Source: Martin Lodahl (malodah@srv.PacBell.COM), r.c.b., 7/8/94
Well, here's my best attempt so far.
Ingredients:
* 4 lbs DeWulf-Cosyns "Pils" malt
* 3 lbs brewers' flaked wheat (inauthentic; will try raw wheat nest time)
* 6 oz rolled oats
* 1 oz Saaz hops (3.3% AA)
* 0.75 oz bitter (Curacao) orange peel quarters (dried)
* 1 oz sweet orange peel (dried)
* 0.75 oz coriander (cracked)
* 0.75 oz anise seed
* one small pinch cumin
* 0.75 cup corn sugar (priming)
* 10 ml 88% food-grade lactic acid (at bottling)
* BrewTek "Belgian Wheat" yeast
Procedure:
Mash-in to 3 gal water @ 100F; rest 10 minutes
Protein rests: 20 minutes @ 117F
20 minutes @ 122F
20 minutes @ 126F
First decoction; thickest 40% of the mash
Heat to 160F; rest 15 minutes
Boil 15 minutes, then return to rest mash
Adjust to ~145F; hold 10 minutes
Second decoction, thickest 35% of the mash
Heat to 160F; rest 10 minutes
Boil 10 minutes, then return to rest mash
Adjust to 162F, rest at least 15 minutes, check starch
Mash-out @ 170F; 10 minutes
Sparge: 5 gallons at 170F
Boil 60 minutes, adding hops at the beginning and spices at the end.
Add lactic acid to taste, at bottling. The mash is very bizarre, turning to a thinner gruel with each decoction. Low apparent extract seems to be due to a much greater quantity of starch than this malt can convert. I plan to try domestic 2-row, which is ~25 degrees Lintner higher in diastatic power.
Specifics:
* O.G.: 1.038
* F.G.: 1.009
Classification: wit, Belgian ale, wheat beer, all-grain
Source: Martin Lodahl (malodah@srv.PacBell.COM), r.c.b., 7/8/94
Well, here's my best attempt so far.
Ingredients:
* 4 lbs DeWulf-Cosyns "Pils" malt
* 3 lbs brewers' flaked wheat (inauthentic; will try raw wheat nest time)
* 6 oz rolled oats
* 1 oz Saaz hops (3.3% AA)
* 0.75 oz bitter (Curacao) orange peel quarters (dried)
* 1 oz sweet orange peel (dried)
* 0.75 oz coriander (cracked)
* 0.75 oz anise seed
* one small pinch cumin
* 0.75 cup corn sugar (priming)
* 10 ml 88% food-grade lactic acid (at bottling)
* BrewTek "Belgian Wheat" yeast
Procedure:
Mash-in to 3 gal water @ 100F; rest 10 minutes
Protein rests: 20 minutes @ 117F
20 minutes @ 122F
20 minutes @ 126F
First decoction; thickest 40% of the mash
Heat to 160F; rest 15 minutes
Boil 15 minutes, then return to rest mash
Adjust to ~145F; hold 10 minutes
Second decoction, thickest 35% of the mash
Heat to 160F; rest 10 minutes
Boil 10 minutes, then return to rest mash
Adjust to 162F, rest at least 15 minutes, check starch
Mash-out @ 170F; 10 minutes
Sparge: 5 gallons at 170F
Boil 60 minutes, adding hops at the beginning and spices at the end.
Add lactic acid to taste, at bottling. The mash is very bizarre, turning to a thinner gruel with each decoction. Low apparent extract seems to be due to a much greater quantity of starch than this malt can convert. I plan to try domestic 2-row, which is ~25 degrees Lintner higher in diastatic power.
Specifics:
* O.G.: 1.038
* F.G.: 1.009
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When I am in Berlin in a couple of weeks (getting very excited!), I want to get some brewing ingredients for my homebrew projects.
Where is the best place to get things such as malts, yeast, speciality grains - and even pick up some equipment.
Sounds insane that Czech people for all their love of beer don't make it themselves.
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Where is the best place to get things such as malts, yeast, speciality grains - and even pick up some equipment.
Sounds insane that Czech people for all their love of beer don't make it themselves.
Topics merged by admin
I am looking for more of a physical store in Berlin.
I am looking for the same thing in Munich. Each time I go back to England I load up on kits, glucose etc., to bring back. The bags of glucose must look muchos interesting to airport security when they X-ray my suitcase
QUOTE (Hutcho @ Jul 2 2007, 10:18 am) 
I'm not sure why you think homebrewing should be popular here. I used to homebrew back in Australia, but it's simply not worth it here. Beer is so cheap, and so good, and there is so much choice, that unless you're a beer brewing enthusiast, it's much easier, cheaper and better tasting just to buy a crate a beer when you want a drink.
In Australia, beer is crap and expensive, and this was basically the only reason that anyone did it back there..
In Australia, beer is crap and expensive, and this was basically the only reason that anyone did it back there..
Krostitzer has got a point you know...
Maybe ask in a Reformhaus.
Brewing your own beer sounds like a lot of bolloks when you can get it cheaper, and tastier without the stink of fermenting yeast and dustbins full of bubbling foam.Get yourself down to aldi and buy a crate!!!
Whatever happened to doing things simply for the fun of it, or to enjoy the process? Jeez. Anyways, there's a bar in Mitte, near Alexanderplatz that sells supplies. I'm sorry I don't remember the name. It's on Munzstrasse.
It's called Marcus Bräu
http://www.brau-dein-bier.de/
http://www.brau-dein-bier.de/
oh hell yeah. 70 bucks for a setup, that's what i'm talkin' bout. thanks elf.
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