Recent content by balkan_brewer

Hello, Last summer I started preparations for opening a nano brewery of my own and also launched crowdfunding campaign. Now I can say that my brewery is ready to start, a dream came true. I have a 250 liters (cca 62 gallons) per batch HERMS system and 500-liter fermenters. I plan to aerate...

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I am in the process of building a brewery and I intend to turn one room into a small lab where I would store and culture yeast. Among other, I need to ensure that the air in the room is clean, bacteria-free, etc. Therefore, I need to install an air cleaner or filtration unit. What do you think...

Hey, I've made 2 batches of American Wheat Ale with US05, OG 1.044 and 1.040. Since I plan to bring thefirst batch to a craft beer festival on July 30, I don't have enough time for usual fermentation period for wheat beers, which is 11 days + 5-7 days bottle conditioning in my case. I plan...

The world is small after all :). My family also makes slivovitz (plum brandy moonshine) but in my opinion it is too strong :). In fact there is a traditional Serbian ale recipe that used to be made in the villages just like slivovitz, something similar to lambic, but I don't know any more...

Yugoslavia was everything but a Soviet Sattelite. It had the most liberal form of socialism of all Eastern block countries. It departed from Stalin and the Soviet Union in 1948. Tito, the leader of Yugoslavia until his death in 1980, was loved and still is loved by many people in the region...

Well, you would be surprised how easy actually it is :). There are two suppliers of all kinds of ingredients (malts, hops, yeast, Star San...) in the country, but specialized craft beer shops are in neighboring Serbia and Croatia (2-3 hour drive). In my experience, many of you guys from the...

Hey man, sorry for taking this long to reply, I am just all over the place with this campaign. I think I had a dozen of interviews with media in the last 2-3 days + I had to bottle one batch of beer and make another one :). So, let's go one question at a time: 1. Business plan was the...

Hi guys, My name is Nikola, I'm 29, I live in the city of Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I've just started an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise a portion of funds needed to start my own nano-brewery at my late granddad's farm in a village 16 km from my hometown...

Hello from the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. My name is Nikola and I hope I will find some useful pieces of information here :) Cheers!