Thread: Home Brew

Originally Posted by calitobali

By the way, do you tend to get bloated or gassy when you drink it? Everyone I have given it to does, we chalked it up to the ginger, but wondering if yours does that as well.

Hi Dude,

Anyways, the reason you are getting too gassy and bloated is you are trying to drink your brew way too fast. By that I don't mean the way you open your throat and pour that sucker down (which we both can be pretty good at :) ), I mean you should be letting your brew sit for ideally around a month, although the longer the better.

The problem is the yeast is still alive when you are consuming it (as Jin mentioned earlier) and they are continuing to ferment in your guts. Back here we call them 'greenies'. You need to let the bottles wait long enough for all the sugar to be consumed in the secondary fermentation and the yeast to die off before you even consider touching it without the nasty side effects. I spoke to crazy Dave (you know who I'm talking about about), who is a bit of a home brew guru, and he recommended no more than a tablespoon per large Bintang bottle for your secondary fermentation. I don't know if you can remember back, but we were all complaining of your very same complaint way back in the day when we stayed at Suriwathi. The Bintang stubbies coming thru were way to green and we were forced to drink the cans (and lots of Beam and Ouzo). It's a horrible feeling when you dread sucking the guts out of a cold bintang.........

As for caps, let me know how you get on, can be arranged to get some from my side of the ditch. I'd be starting at consulting packaging type wholesalers first, if I was you.

Hey Cali,

Why don't you post up your recipe for your Green Tea home brew so other people don't make the mistake of trying to brew it for themselves. Definately on the same echelon alongside Southern Comfort and low-carb beer as one of the worlds worst alcoholic drinks ha ha ha.

The mango and passionfruit was great, but! ;)