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Cheese is very economical for us but we get milk from the farmer straight from milking and don't pay anything like the prices quoted. The other consideration is the type of cheese. Some of the cheeses in the local store run very high (Cambozola for example) compared to making it yourself...

cdrozda: Beautiful press. Mine is a little stone age - including the washed gravel in a sack for weight. Did you turn the shaft (it undoubtedly has a name) going into the follower?

I'll have to look into kegs...and lottery tickets. From the little I have gathered so far they look good. Thanks.

I just received an order from Beer Grains and couldn't be happier with product, service, shipping and packaging. Pricing was good, particularly after free shipping based on total order.

That's impressive. I'll try it with glass the next time I have a few. :drunk: That's definitely an advantage.

Thanks. I hear you on the lifting. I don't know how much better plastic would fare being dropped counter height full of liquid. It's not research I want to do. I am thinking some kind of ceiling mounted removable pulley system. The mere mention of it has my wife thinking some kind of hanging...

Create TV should have a home brew show. Some of the experienced folks here who really know what they're doing, love teaching and can clean up nice should join Norm and all the others on PBS. There must be room for a beverage show to complement all the cooking shows. It might help cure...

I notice others have stairs in the middle of their brewing stages and wonder if anyone has tried siphoning wort down one floor. Our stove is upstairs (there won't be a $econd one) but the remainder of the process can be handled downstairs. The stove is not that far from the stairs so running a...

I have only been at it for a couple of months but recently decided on glass. When I clean stainless and glass there is no lingering odour, when I clean any of the plastics to the same degree I can still smell the beer or cheese or whatever was in it last. That tells me it is not as clean. To...

If my wife was rational I'd be single and then who would I blame? She has the unique talent of doing nothing and still making all the mistakes. :D

Maybe you were just born to brew.

With canning season just finished in some areas you may want to try kijiji. Hardware stores can also have dent and scratch pricing on big, thin SS pots. They dent easily but work great. I picked one up for half price a while back. Cue Pandora. That's a very contentious issue on many food and...

Bienvenue. Happy Brewing.

markowe: it's impossible to compete on price Well, as the old saw goes if you can't sell the cheapest than all that's left is to sell the best. A little independence, hops, yeast and a lot of grain is a great start for a return to real beer in the grand tradition in which civilization was nurtured.

Seems you have all the requisite qualifications - marketing (selling others on your creations does wonders for your own appreciation), creativity, curiosity, interest (returning to a double dutch speaking forum now and again is definitely badge material) and product. Yup, seems all you need do...

Reading through this thread with only out-of-date memories of the area it seems you have as much an opportunity as a problem. Living in a sea of barley with enough demand to justify selling the industrial beer-like products seems ideal for starting a malt and general beer ingredient cooperative.

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I think commercials like that are the leading cause of information obesity. People consuming large amounts of undigestible information (dark beer is a left hand beer - I'm right handed so it makes me fat) causes early conversation death. Good beer is like lobster, I like those who don't like...

Advertising works. Beer advertising works very well. It's important big beer companies don't damage the message with a product that has character other than wet and cold. "Hey, this isn't my beer. It has flavor." Someone could end up tasting hops or malt and then what would the horses do?

Anyone ever try icing sugar? That's very fine cane. I seem to recall reading about putting some wort aside before throwing the yeast and then adding it back in for bottling but I have no idea of the quantity or results...just something I noticed when reading up on the subject.