| I First started Home-Brewing beer in about 1988. A mate of mine,known as Zac, was into it and I was impressed at the range of beers available, so decided to give it a shot. I recall taking extreme car with batch Number 1, and steralizing everything. Said batch was duly bottled and recorded. I decided to record each batch as it was brewed, temperature, ingrediants etc so i could adajust the variables I made 10 batches (of 28 x 750 ml bottles), one each week. On the 10th week had a few mates around for the tasting and what a memorable day it was, if only for the fact we can't remember anything about it!! Suitably impressed, I built a series of cupboards, so i could rotate my stock, and drink only aged beer. It took a lot of brewing and a lot of will-power to actually fill the thing. But then came the good part. Start at one end and drink the lot. As each batch was consumed, bottles were washed etc and re-filled immediately., Thus ensuring a never ending supply. And here I am some 13 years later and yet to reach the end. But of course I'll never stop trying I now have the art perfected, to my own tastes of course, and when at full strength, have a total of 15 batches in stock. That is a total of 840 X 750 ml bottles [630,000 ml] and for you Aussies, thats roughly 2,210 pots. (1050 US Pints / 1312 UK Pints) or 166 US Gallons. |
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| BREWING PROGRESS AS OF 05/02/2002 AUSTRALIAN POTS.................................48,482 USA PINTS..........................................13,101 UK PINTS...............................................10,593 |
| BREW MADE SO FAR -- COSTING The kit cost, plus replacement parts along the way, water, glucose, wort etc total to date to $3,676.00 Aust. To buy the same amount of pots at the local pub (price indezed along the way) would have cost $37,973.00 Aust. Quite a remarkable set of figures, Although may have to deduct the cost of a liver transplant in the years to come, Hehehe! |
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| Last updated on 05/02/2002 |
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