Home Brewing
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Can anyone tell me if there is anywhere in Limassol (prefered) or Cyprus where i can get beer & wine home brewing equipment and ingredients, there are not many things i miss, but a good pint of real ale is one of them, so any help would be good, and i can get experimenting with recipe's. Thank you.
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I have some brewing equipment that I brought over from the UK, electric mash tun with tap, pressurised barrel with tap and some other bits and pieces if you are interested. I never did get around to doing a brew over here. Alternatively let me also know where to find ingredients and I'll also brew some decent beer - you can only drink so much Keo & Carlsberg Cheers. |
Aphrodite's rock Brewery based in Tasda. They do 7-8 different beers, including ale, stout, IPA etc...
They are very, very nice indeed. We commissioned them to come out to our wedding with their whole selection and bar. Amazing selection of beers, leave it up to the profesionals I say! :-)
Clem
I don't think there's any argument that UK beer is to be found in Cyprus (though sadly it's all keg or bottled, and cask ale is very rare beast indeed - Aphrodite Rock excepted), but the question was about home-brewing, which a lot of people do because they enjoy the process. not necessarily just for the final product.
I don't know of any place in Cyprus that deals for the brewing equipments. I have ordered all the bits and bobs like hydrometer, thermometer, air locks, syphone etc from amazon, and use UKCY (shippers). I have just purchaised an oak barrel, second hand, from Celtic Timber (in Wales). £100 for the 250L barrel and €65 via UKCY. You can also or a vertical barrel from them with lid for the primery fermentation... Or to use as a water butt! :-)
I have a question for you Graham, as you sound like you know what you're doing RE brewing.
We are currently doing primary fermentation of our wine in plastice 20L containers. its fermenting away nicely so far and its been a week. However, I am only receiving the rest of equimpement at the end of the month so I will most likely not be able to transfer the wine for secondary fermentation when I'm supposed to (proably around now-next few days). Do you think there is any harm to the wine if keep in long pramary fermentation? The Cypriots leave it this way for 40 days they tell me, but that's without the pith though...
Any help will be muchly appreciated.
Clem
This is a long shot but hear me out please.
Im currently in lockdown due to covid in a hotel in Cyprus and im interested in the possibility of making a quick homebrew in my hotel room. Im obviously limited in my utensils but i have a kettle, bottles and sugar. Can anyone help me out with where i can get the remaining necessities locally. Malted barley / yeast? The hotel will not assist in any way or supply beer to room.