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Krypt, what you should do is start a beer club with other like-minded friends. That way you have a lot of options and a steady flow of decent beer in the pipeline.
If you're having intestinal distress, it's probably not the alcohol. It's probably because you're not eating (or just eating random low quality food).
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Posted on: 12:55 pm on Jan. 24, 2003
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Sauron
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Krypt:
I doubt that home brewing is legal in Thailand at all.
But I do know people here who do it anyway.
You would find it a challenge to maintain the requisite cleanliness of all vessels in Bangkok where the air is so dusty.
Pls note that beer yeasts are specific to beer type and are sold as liquid cultures called slants. Do NOT use "brewer's yeast" from a supermarket. That is for baking bread.
I recommend you read up about this on the Net, succesful home brewing is an art form as well as a science and a discipline. You will also have to get into microbiology, or else pitch a contaminated (by bacteria and wild yeasts) batch from time to time.
I can have a "Thai check out" the legality of home brewing for personal consumption. She is former (till last year) Deputy Director General of Excise Dept, Finance Ministry, which oversees the liquor business.
But I think the answer is no.
I am not trying to one-up you, I could be wrong, but I am in the business and I know the Thai govt mentality about this sort of thing.
Another downside to home brewing in a tropical country is temperature control. You will need a cool dark place. And a constant correct temperature. Yeast does not appreciate temperature variations/fluctuations, it responds by being stressed and producing things other than alcohol, things (called congeners) that you will not want to drink.
Personally I have experimented considerably with fermenting sugars to make neutral spirits (i.e., voBKa) and this is a lot easier to ferment than beer, the problems arise because you have to distill it up from 16-18% to 95%, purify it, then water it back to 40-50% and distill it again, even more carefully, then cut it back to drinking strength again. This is DEFINITELY not legal in Thailand without an extremely hard to get license, but, people make illegal untaxed Thai moonshine (lao khao and yaa dong) every day from sticky rice, tapioca/cassava etc and it is widely sold.
You guys working in Saudi will be familiar with the sediki made there.
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Posted on: 4:15 pm on Jan. 24, 2003
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bandit
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In a previous post one of the bros has mentioned that it that draft beer, i. e. beer in kegs is not pasteurized. In general this is not true.
Larger breweries pasteurize their beer through to two main reasons, limiting the chances that bacteria is growing and the longer expiry date as it might take longer time to reach the customer. While pasteurizing a beer gives you a longer expiry date the taste of the beer is suffering. But to larger breweries it is more important to have a longer expiry date.
Therefore smaller local breweries do usually not pasteurize their beer and normally such a beer is best to be consumed four to six months after the production date.
Pasteurized beer in kegs has normally an expiry date of six to eight months. A beer in keg is not made to be stored. Beer in bottles, depending on the process has an expiry date of eight months up to two years.
Cheers! 
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Posted on: 5:26 am on Jan. 27, 2003
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