Nalod wrote:Is it legal to home brew there?

You can buy alcohol here so my assumption is it is legal to brew--just not to sell

Nalod wrote:

orangeblobman wrote:you take those fruit cup juices and put piece of bread in, seal it. and wait a week or so. but hide it from guards.

Looky here, we got Freaking Martha Stewart ovah here doing a "McIver"!

Dude wants to drink fine beer, not ferment a "Juicy Juice"!

Nalod wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

Nalod wrote:Is it legal to home brew there?

You can buy alcohol here so my assumption is it is legal to brew--just not to sell

I would assume that too. Until your in a Turkish prison or they call you "Lefty" cause there is an old "Crazy" law that if you brew spirits without proper blessing they cut your right hand off!

Might be a tax evasion problem. I don't really know, but your playing in their backyard!

I knew people that were reprimanded in Libya for making wine... but they had bottled and stored over 70 bottles (yep!). So that was the quivalent of "possession with the intent to distribute," but no ticket or jail or whatever. They just snitched to our bosses, and had to sign letters saying if there are any other problems they were on the next flight home

Everyone all over the world drinks. Here, it's just that the locals don't do it in public. They think that's silly. Drinking is something you do privately, at home.

Now, if I stink the place up and a spill leaks into the neighbor's apartment then, yes, I have a problem (so I'll try to buy a plastic kiddy pool to put everything in)

I would like persoanlly create as much of the equipment as possible too, both to reduce costs as well as get to know the mechanics as well as possible. Not to mention, I will leave most if not all of the equipment behind. When I get back stateside, I would like to purchase top quality products and would like to be competent enought to entertain all-grain brewing.

I suppose the most sophisticated techniques I'm looking to use in Doha are adding bittering and finishing hops and employing secondary fermentation.

Thanks for the Cooper recommendation, as well as the Bodenstatz. I am still in the friggin hotel, so I've finish half of John Plamer's book "How to Brew". I'm hoping I'll learn the mechanics, technique, process, and science behind the inputand outputs of brewing. Any other recommendation about introductory text or media about any of those subjects is welcomed

Markji wrote:SC, now that you have been in Doha for awhile, how is life in that part of the world? Are you able to travel around the country? Any unrest? Best of luck to you.

Life is slow here, I'll tell you that much. But this is a SIGNIFICANT upgrade over Tripoli. This is Tripoli's wet dream. But the project I'm working on is truly unbelievable. I'm handling procurement of half a billion dollars in equipment, specialized consultancy contracts, etc. I cannot get this experience at home. The construction site itself is epic, and the what makes it unique is that it is greenfield (not rebuilding an industrial area).

Its for that reason it is safe. I have met more expats than Qataris. They have so much cash that they hire outsider to tackle issues like that, where they hop around th eglobe buying up real estate and renting it. Because of that, there are businesses here that I've actually seen before. Nice things. The other night I went to the nicest lounge I have ever been in. It was at the W Hotel... can't find a picture of the lounge, but here's the skyline at night:

As for travel, there's not much else to do within Qatar. I cannot yet leave the country due to my visa status. When that is changed, I plan to go to: Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt; Abu Dhabi, ; Dubai and Abu Dhabi, UAE; Beirut and Byblos, Lebanon; various Persian Gulf fishing destinations.

I am most excited about Lebanon. Those women are beautiful. It is a popular French vacation destination, which is why the women have that beautiful dark skin, dark hair, but green/blue eyes. We all know how French men are. The Lebanese have Westernized in their Islamic practices. There is a beach resort that has a beach bar that gets top notch DJs, Edde Sands. I plan to spend a week there this summer:

Worst case is my God Daughter's christening will be June/July, so I may get the extract, yeast, and hops then, while I work on equipment until then