So basically I'm living in a country that has never heard of home brewing so ingredients are very hard to come by, luckily my girlfriends family run a herb/raw ingredient business and are well connected with raw ingredients like grains and so on, but nothing specifically made for brewing.
So from my limited knowledge of brewing I need 4 things. Yeast, grains, malt, hops.
For hops I guess there is no choice but to get them imported if I can not find them here.
Grains should be easy to get but which type would be best and would they need any special treatment (like roasting) before using?
For yeast I guess bread yeast is not terrible, or as it is usually small it wouldnt be too expensive to import.
Then the last is malt... I am guessing that I can make this myself from the grains but need to read up a bit about that. Let me know if I'm totally off on it though.
Thanks for any advice, I really hope I can get some drinkable ale out here somehow as not only are the brewing items hard to get but shop beer is ridiculously expensive (around 6USD per litre). Cheers.
So from my limited knowledge of brewing I need 4 things. Yeast, grains, malt, hops.
For hops I guess there is no choice but to get them imported if I can not find them here.
Grains should be easy to get but which type would be best and would they need any special treatment (like roasting) before using?
For yeast I guess bread yeast is not terrible, or as it is usually small it wouldnt be too expensive to import.
Then the last is malt... I am guessing that I can make this myself from the grains but need to read up a bit about that. Let me know if I'm totally off on it though.
Thanks for any advice, I really hope I can get some drinkable ale out here somehow as not only are the brewing items hard to get but shop beer is ridiculously expensive (around 6USD per litre). Cheers.