Australian Pale Ale

We met a German couple a few weeks ago. Amongst other things, Germans like to talk about beer. The discussion we had with the Germans was getting particularly interesting when they mentioned the words "Home brewing". Apparently, the Australian climate is perfect for fermenting beer, and our German friends lost no time in buying their own beer brewing set to make their own beer. "Beer hier ist immer so expensive !". And they are right, a sixpack of normal beer in the shops will cost you anything from 15 dollars to 30 dollars ( Corona beer is especially expensive around here ). The price of beer leaves a nasty taste in your mouth, but we now had the answer : Brew beer yourself for 1 dollar per litre. Now we're talking !

The Germans were months away from leaving Australia ( due to visa restrictions ) and had their complete set including bottles and all the extra's for sale for a mere 40 dollars. So we bought it from them. Yesterday I decided it was time to start brewing our Christmas beers, so I read the instruction book carefully again ( second time ). The Germans gave us some good advice about brewing beer. "The only thing that can go wrong is if you don't clean your stuff before you brew". Sounds easy, so we made sure everything was disinfected ( using Coopers beer kit cleaner ) and left our kit to clean overnight. Today we rinsed it off and created our "wort" which is the base of beers. It looks like sirup and to be honest I love the smell of it, but then again I love the smell of kerosine and diesel too, so that might not be much help.

We finally found a use for our second bathroom :)

Our beer set is being cleaned for the night :


The beer set is filled up with beer Wort ( "wurt" ) and is fermenting ( hopefully ) :