Hey there people! I'm new to this forum and also to home brewing.
I'm stduying chemical engineering in Turkey and I love beers. However, beer tax is 63% here in Turkey so we pay awful amounts of money to be a little happy.
Since I'm studying chemical engineering, I decided that I can make my own beer and enjoy drinking without paying a fortune (oh, you know how rich can a student be?)
But of course I got obstacles on my way. I cannot find any malt extract or barley grain anywhere in Turkey. I looked and searched every spot that has the possibility to have something similar but the result is negative.
I am fermenting half a liter of sucrose-water solution to have about 5% alcohol by volume at the end of the fermentation. Since I didn't use any grain or extract, the color of the solution is now cloudy white (as expected). I am thinking of adding honey or some kind of syrup at the end of the fermentation process to give color and taste and also to help carbonation.
I didn't use airlock because I couldn't get any but I'm releasing CO2 multiple times a day from the bottle. However, it stinks so bad that I am afraid I will vomit some time.
Even though I cleaned everything could it be bacterial contamination? Or is it because of sucrose which I don't think so?
Waiting for your replies, and cheers to everybody!
I'm stduying chemical engineering in Turkey and I love beers. However, beer tax is 63% here in Turkey so we pay awful amounts of money to be a little happy.
Since I'm studying chemical engineering, I decided that I can make my own beer and enjoy drinking without paying a fortune (oh, you know how rich can a student be?)
But of course I got obstacles on my way. I cannot find any malt extract or barley grain anywhere in Turkey. I looked and searched every spot that has the possibility to have something similar but the result is negative.
I am fermenting half a liter of sucrose-water solution to have about 5% alcohol by volume at the end of the fermentation. Since I didn't use any grain or extract, the color of the solution is now cloudy white (as expected). I am thinking of adding honey or some kind of syrup at the end of the fermentation process to give color and taste and also to help carbonation.
I didn't use airlock because I couldn't get any but I'm releasing CO2 multiple times a day from the bottle. However, it stinks so bad that I am afraid I will vomit some time.
Even though I cleaned everything could it be bacterial contamination? Or is it because of sucrose which I don't think so?
Waiting for your replies, and cheers to everybody!