First brew

[Bolti]

Ok, so I made my first brew a couple of weeks ago and I tried it out this weekend.

I liked the taste when I tried the couple of small bottles that I made but at the party when I was driving there the yeast in the bottom got stirred up and clouded the beer and changed the taste radicly.

What ways are there to bind the yeast in the bottom and make the brew a little more tolerant to shaky car rides and horizontal fridge storing.

Any help is greatly appriciated.

Ah by the way, I believe the 2 litre coke bottle could have something to do with the whole thing but I am having trouble getting bottles here in Iceland.

 

[Kayos]

Just make sure you have an hour for it to sit before you serve it....otherwise, no there is no way to keep the yeast down. You can't keep a good yeast down....of course you could keg and get a beer gun.......

 

[Bolti]

The CO2 system is far to expensive for me to import becouse of my geographical situation

I feel it's much easier to poor from the small ones. So .5 litre bottles from now on instead of the 2 litre ones.

Does it look good though? It's a Coopers Real Ale extract (My local homebrewer shop only has Coopers and Brew Canada extracts)

I need to find some way to import hops and stuff (I checked the Austin Homebrew Supply and that carried a ~$200 shipping cost to Iceland on any kit I tried)

 

[SeamusMac]

That looks fantastic, it's too bad to heard that it's so difficult to get the equipment you need in Iceland.

Most microbreweries in Canada and the US have glass jugs called growlers that are used to transport draught beer to events/parties. You could do the same thing with your home brew. If you're careful about pouring your beer into a second set of bottles it you'll leave most of the yeast in the original bottles and won't loose too much of the carbonation. Just make sure not to leave much head space in the new bottles, less of the carbonation will leave the beer that way.

 

[WriterWriter]

Sorry, I can't help. But as a Canadian I just wanted to say that it's very interesting that we manage to get our brew products into Iceland. I've never tried Brew Canada (go figure, I buy Australian!) but I think I might just have been shamed into giving 'er a go.

 

[Bolti]

The company importing brewing extracts here has 1 rack

Its Brew Canada and the Coopers

No more no less

I know a guy at a local brewery and I am thinking about talking to him about this whole thing. He could maybe hook me up with some malt and hops

 

[blackwaterbrewer]

bolti,

don't give up! you have definietely made me thankful to have easy access to supplies in the U.S. your brewery friend might me the way to go. he could maybe give you some yeast, too. if you can get some hop rhizomes, i think that would be a good climate to grow some varieties.

brew on, dude.

 

[Bolti]

haha, thanx man.... I am not giving up on this stuff... I think I will start with the Extract brewing and get the good grip on the whole thing, try to get it as clear as I can, then continue with trying to get the all grain stuff locally.

If everything gives.... well I'll just have to pay the $200 for shipment for a $40 parcel

 

[eriktlupus]

just make sure you have a big enough order then the price of shipping it will come down.

 

[Bolti]

hehe, tried to assemble a large order with 3 kits at the same time and the shipment just got 3 times as large. $77 order and $480 in shipment.

I think I'd rather just spend the $480 on a trip to Boston, MA and ship the tsuff to the hotel and return with some stuff instead :rockin:

Actually not a bad Idea

 

[Kayos]

See if B3 will ship for free over $60 order......