Greetings from a Belgian living in Brazil

[geovdw]

Hello everybody,
My name´s Geoffrey and I want to start with Homebrewing, the last month and a half I read a lot about homebrewing and starting today I will buy the necessary equipment to brew 10 to 12 Litres (sorry I´m not used to gallons, pounds etc.) I love all kinds of beer especially the ones from my native country like duvel, orval, oerbier, westvleteren, tripel karmeliet, etc.
and american pale ales with a high IBU.
I want to start to brew myself because of the high beer prices here in Brazil, some imported beers have aroun 70% taxes on them making it very expensive to enjoy the better beers here.

Greetings from Brazil!

 

[flars]

Welcome to brewing.

As you pick out equipment consider the method you will use for controlling the temperature of the fermenting wort.

 

[Doctor_M]

Welcome! If I recall correctly (iirc) there are a bunch of brazilians on here I'm sure some will chime in shortly.

 

[geovdw]

thanks, to control the fermentation I thought about putting the fermenting bucket in a basin with ice during the day.

 

[BrasilCerveja]

Actually a lot of Belgian yeasts tolerate higher temps. Also a lot of Belgian beers are bottle fermented- meaning there's still yeast in the bottom that can be cultured. I wouldn't recommend that for your first few batches but it's something to keep in mind for later.


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