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madjbs

If you want to make a real quality beer you need to skip any kind of malt concentrates and go for a full mash brew. Timothy Taylors is one of my favourites, in BKK hops and grain can be found here

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Marmite the Dog

I have an external thermostat on my spare fridge, so it gets set at 20 Deg for fermenting and it's at 5 Deg now for quaffing.

I have been in touch with Diamalt about this already, but we need to order a 'reasonable' amount in. Again, if you want to take this further, let's get together and sort it out.

Amazingly, it tastes really good, too. It's only 2.5 weeks old (in the bottle). I primed the bottles with malt rather than dextrose for that fuller flavour.

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Why is it, you can wait an eternity for a bus, only for three to arrive at the same time?

Marmite the Dog

Not these new ones. They're ace.

madjbs

How did you set up the external thermostat, there are brewers ones you can oder from oz but I would think it would be possible to do a home job cheaper.

Gerbil

Hmmm.... have to think about it a bit. Haven't really got time for a new 'hobby' at the moment but I do have a spare fridge that could be modified..... decisions, decisions...

Marmite the Dog

I ordered mine from Aus. I had to modify the plugs on it, but it works really well.

It doesn't need to be modified if you get one of them. ^

Marmite the Dog

I called them once and the guy denied all knowledge of malted barley and hops. Twas a bit odd.

madjbs

weird, how long ago was this? I spoke to him a few months back and he gave me prices and everything, perhaps he has been warned about supplying stuff to unlicensed brewers.

Marmite the Dog

About 2.5 years ago.

Maybe the phone number I got from ThaiVisa was wrong? No worries, everything I've got so far has been free samples apart from the thermostat.

reinvented

Had the pleasure of a sample of marmers beer last night

i think it might have been good, i dont remember a thing this morning

seriously, well done sir, a fine tipple

nightowl2548

I really love the Bavarian Beer "Tucher" particularly it's Helles Hefeweizen. Non German Hefeweizens just don't taste the same. Never seen Tucher or Pauliner in Big C though, however there is a decent Austrian restaurant in Patong with a good German Hefeweizen on tap.

nightowl2548

I've tried brewing my own and can never seem to get the yeast to fully ferment the sugars out and get a very sweet beer at about 2.5% alcohol. It's a hell of a lot of work cleaning out the bottles before bottling and I gave up on it, I did however have best tasting results by using distilled water as the malt concentrate already contains all the minerals from the original water.

good2bhappy

I tried a new beer the other day called Federbrau, it had a musky flavour and is 4.7%

Mr Pot

^ Fcuking horrible, must be an aquired taste; I gave my bottle back - it was like drinking rainwater from an ashtray

madjbs

It's always a good idea to start the yeast off at the exact temperature before you add it to the wort, you also need to make sure you aerate the wort sufficiently.

Fabian

They claim it to be "german style". Do you normally like german beer and what kind of beer does it resemble?