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loving the home brews that are appearing back home during lock down, If the booze ban continues and you have saved the yeast from the above brew, You can make a awesome gluten free beer from supplies in Pick and pay. go either sorghum based with berries, or corn based if you have hops...

Hey all. Amazingly got some investors and they run it to death. Only selling kits by the end! Watch this space launching my own place in competition.

Hey all. Some of you might know in nearly all South African supermarkets we can buy malted sorgum. That being said I recently found out that from the same sorgum brand one can get malted maize. Trying to get information from the manufacturer regarding the product. But just putting this out there...

@bushman101 How long did it take to ferment out?

Thanks Abrayton @Andrew Hodgson I'm very worried about "green" beer . Most of mine i age for atleast 4 months. ( Lager is sitting at 9 months ) Re cider. I used to make lemon lime turbo yeast cider. Which was tasty at 19 . 34 i worry my pallet has changed alot. Hopefully it figure something...

Hey all. So i think every homebrewer has been asked this at least once or twice. Have been asked to supply a pile of home brew for a braai coming up and the usual being i don't have enough general public friendly beer/cider to supply. Looking for a quick recipe either beer or a cider ( rather...

Just a heads up. This brew had a sg of 1046 and is still going great guns . minimal "metalic" sorgum taste .at day 4 1010

Hey don't shoot the new guy for probably asking a question that's been asked a million times . But has anyone tried saflager 34/70 fermentating out at a constant 15'c ? Landed up getting a few packets at a ultra cheap price ( they were close to expiry) And dont have a place to ferment colder ...

Hey dont disagree. Was just trying to help a guy out. His cash flow tanked because he paid rent upfront and one of the biggest suppliers has put all the small shops on cash upfront for all purchases. The South African craft beer home brew shops is going to go through a massive shake up over...

Post like yours read like a Nigerian prince. I'm just in a boat going I wish I had R100000 spare floating around.

Hey all . Moderators please remove this if this doesn't meet any of the groups rules. Having just moved to the Garden route here in SA . I've found out that the local home brew shop is going to have to close due to cash flow issues. Being that they have the license for both retail and events...

Experimenting is why I love beer and brewing . Will post when I brew it. Right now struggling to get the right sorgum to rice ratio to get a expected starch extraction. ( Iodine test at 4hours : still stach pressent with the rice / replacing the rice with maize meal commenly used in South...

Re the juniper / that's just for an experiment . That being said alot of early beers were flavoured with juniper . There is also this massive gin revolution happening world wide and thus. If I can pull off a great beer. I might have a potentialy commercial product on my hands ..( I wish )

Just saw this thread. Made a few batches of alco pop brews when I was young and dumb and had a better half who didn't drink beer. Approximately 20l batch Still spits vodka yeast 7kg sugar 5kg start and then .500g every two days. Fermented Bellow 15'c till fermentation Post fermentation...

Hey million buck question how did it go? Quick one which old sa beer recipe. Desperately looking for a lion ale recipe for my old man