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Home Brew in Saudi Arabia – HELP!

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d...@minara.u-net.com

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Apr 25, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/25/98
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I will be posted to Saudi Arabia in few weeks and want to start brewing my own
beer out there. Raw materials available are ready mmade non alcoholic beer
(sold as malt drink in the shops!), yeast, water and sugar. I understand that
may other expats simply add water to sugar, a bit of yeat, let it ferment in a
couple of crates of 'malt drink and, Voila! Malt Drink with Alcohol!

Trouble is I am not sure of measurements, recipe, time to ferment, etc.

Any help to d...@minara.u-net.com would be much appreciated.

Thanx in advance,

Des Joseph
London – UK

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verne

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Apr 25, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/25/98
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d...@minara.u-net.com wrote in message <6hsohs$o0e$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...


>I will be posted to Saudi Arabia in few weeks and want to start brewing my
own
>beer out there. Raw materials available are ready mmade non alcoholic beer
>(sold as malt drink in the shops!), yeast, water and sugar. I understand
that
>may other expats simply add water to sugar, a bit of yeat, let it ferment
in a
>couple of crates of 'malt drink and, Voila! Malt Drink with Alcohol!
>
>Trouble is I am not sure of measurements, recipe, time to ferment, etc.
>
>Any help to d...@minara.u-net.com would be much appreciated.
>
>Thanx in advance,
>
>Des Joseph
>London – UK
>

There are allot of ways to make beer even fairly good beer from grain.BUT
DON'T DO IT IN SAUDI they take there laws seriously.I hope they pay you
well.
Verne

Alan Follett

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Apr 25, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/25/98
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Actually, there's an interesting question embedded in this. Regardless
of what Saudi law may say, as a practical matter to what extent do the
Saudi authorities interfere with the possession / consumption of booze
by us rascally infidels, as long as it doesn't get into the hands of the
locals?

Don Scheidt

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Apr 26, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/26/98
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d...@minara.u-net.com wrote:

>I will be posted to Saudi Arabia in few weeks and want to start brewing my own

>beer out there. [snip]

Tell you what. Did someone hold a gun to your head and say
"Go to Saudi Arabia or else!" or are you going as matter of
your own decision making?

If it's your own decision, then grow the fuck up and learn how
to get along without drinking alcohol while you're in Saudi. I
know this is difficult to grasp, but while you're there, maybe
you could respect their laws. If you're too immature to handle
that, then maybe you should just not bother going.
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Desmond Joseph

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Apr 26, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/26/98
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No one held a gun to my head ? just a large wad of cash!

I have been visiting Saudi for the past nine years in the course of my
business. ALL expats brew their own beer and wine. Black Label Scotch is
available ? you only need to look in the right place. The Saudi
authoritiesknow very well that this happens, but don't bother since
expats almost exclusively live in European/American compounds resembling
large holiday resorts and are out of 'harm's way'.

The point is that so long as we don't corrupt the local population, they
tend to turn a blind eye.

Now that thats clear...any recipe solutions?

Des.


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