TinTurtle
Active Member
I became interested in home brewing after I visited Great Leap Brewery last year in Beijing. I live in China six months out of the year and the local beer is the equivalent of water, though imports are not too bad but the selection is limited. I was back in Chicago late summer and fall of 2011 and while I was there I found a craft beer bar called Bigby's (in Addison). These guys really screwed me up, with a hundred plus beers on hand and only craft beers on tap, my standards of what is acceptable in beer was raised.
I returned to Beijing a couple of weeks back and hooked up with a local brewing club that is just getting started. I have Palmer's book with me and I am heading out on Saturday to do some shopping for equipment. After talking to the guys here who are already brewing, it looks like extract is not an option, it will be all grain. And I have access to the basic ingredients. I shipped a 65 gpd RO unit here a couple of years ago and it is hooked up in our apartment. The water here varies between toxic and horrifying. Forced carbonation/kegging seems to be the way everyone goes, and it is fairly cheap.
Equipment will probably require some fabrication. My Chinese is non-existent so I will convince some friends to help me get things done that I can't handle myself. It should be interesting, I will try and post pics for the curious so you can see what its like trying to put this together here.
I returned to Beijing a couple of weeks back and hooked up with a local brewing club that is just getting started. I have Palmer's book with me and I am heading out on Saturday to do some shopping for equipment. After talking to the guys here who are already brewing, it looks like extract is not an option, it will be all grain. And I have access to the basic ingredients. I shipped a 65 gpd RO unit here a couple of years ago and it is hooked up in our apartment. The water here varies between toxic and horrifying. Forced carbonation/kegging seems to be the way everyone goes, and it is fairly cheap.
Equipment will probably require some fabrication. My Chinese is non-existent so I will convince some friends to help me get things done that I can't handle myself. It should be interesting, I will try and post pics for the curious so you can see what its like trying to put this together here.