Hi all,
I a US expat living in Ukraine for a while and got bit by the brewing bug recently. I've been lurking about the forums and Googling brewing info and watching scores of Tube vids.
I WILL have some challenges here. Searching for ingredients (in Ukraine) on the web is a real crap shoot (with more crap than I can shoot).
With rec hobbies NOT being anything even close to a priority (surviving is #1 here) I'll be forced to learn the ropes by brewing all grain brew. IF I can find the ingredients. Pretty sure barley and wheat are available, but not sure if I can find hops. Suggestions for subs would be appreciated.
The equipment I can pull together though I may have to improvise quite a bit. I've looked in every hardware shop I see when we're (my hot blond bride & me) walking, but have yet to see copper tubing to make a chiller. 1.5 L bottles (sanitized of course) of ice may have to do that job. We have two 5 gallon(ish) plastic CBs all ready for fermenting tanks and a large boiling pot is easy enough. I even found some cool 0.5 L flip tops for bottles I want to use. Plastic tubing is readily available (used for potable water) for transferring and a make shift airlock. A cooler and the tubing cam be had for a mash tun also. Finding a hydrometer (I have 2 of them in Maine, of course), may be a challenge, but I can work around that.
Anyway, looking forward to learning all I can here and hopefully, SOON to start a batch of pivo (Russian for beer).
I a US expat living in Ukraine for a while and got bit by the brewing bug recently. I've been lurking about the forums and Googling brewing info and watching scores of Tube vids.
I WILL have some challenges here. Searching for ingredients (in Ukraine) on the web is a real crap shoot (with more crap than I can shoot).
With rec hobbies NOT being anything even close to a priority (surviving is #1 here) I'll be forced to learn the ropes by brewing all grain brew. IF I can find the ingredients. Pretty sure barley and wheat are available, but not sure if I can find hops. Suggestions for subs would be appreciated.
The equipment I can pull together though I may have to improvise quite a bit. I've looked in every hardware shop I see when we're (my hot blond bride & me) walking, but have yet to see copper tubing to make a chiller. 1.5 L bottles (sanitized of course) of ice may have to do that job. We have two 5 gallon(ish) plastic CBs all ready for fermenting tanks and a large boiling pot is easy enough. I even found some cool 0.5 L flip tops for bottles I want to use. Plastic tubing is readily available (used for potable water) for transferring and a make shift airlock. A cooler and the tubing cam be had for a mash tun also. Finding a hydrometer (I have 2 of them in Maine, of course), may be a challenge, but I can work around that.
Anyway, looking forward to learning all I can here and hopefully, SOON to start a batch of pivo (Russian for beer).