Home Beer Brewing

Home Beer Brewing: Good Preparation Is The Key

2008-09-10T03:22:00.000-07:00

A good brewer leaves nothing to chance. He keeps good records, he is very particular about cleaning and sanitizing his equipment and he makes sure he has all the raw ingredients and all his clean and sanitized equipment ready to begin.

Did you know that good home beer brewing is 75% cleaning? Yeah, I know, not a very enthusing statement but it’s a very true statement none-the-less.

Why such a fuss about cleaning and sanitizing. Ever had food poisoning? Ahhh… now you get the point!

A good thorough brewer will consistently produce a good brew, whereas a brewer who flies by the seat of his pants, will quite often turn out a brew that is only fit to be poured down a drain.

Take some of the hassle out of all this and get yourself a great kit that'll really impress your mates. Mr Beer's Deluxe Edition Home Microbrewery System is just what you need to get your first decent lot of home brew under way. All the instructions, in fact everything you need is included. Check it out yourself.

Here's to a good brew.

Jim

Home Beer Brewing: The Hard Way Or The Easy Way

2007-11-04T12:28:00.000-08:00

I came across this video which might be of great help to you when you get into home beer brewing.

Just a reminder. Get your beer brewing kit first, make sure all your equipment is cleaned and sterilized (otherwise you will end up with a batch of infected beer which will cause you a LOT of problems for anyone who drinks it.)

That's it for this week. Enjoy your brew.

Jim

Home Beer Brewing: The process of how to make beer

2007-10-21T16:20:00.000-07:00

The basics of learning home beer brewing is understanding the brewing process and
having the right equipment.

Here’s how it works:

Assemble your ingredients – malted barley, hops, brewing yeast, a little sugar.

First the malted barley is soaked in hot water to release the malt sugars

Next the liquid is allowed to cool and the yeast is added and fermentation begins

CO2 gas and ethyl alcohol is released during this fermentation process

When the main fermentation has finished you can bottle your beer – add a little sugar to provide the bubbles in the bottle.

Well that sounds pretty simple doesn’t it. But these 5 steps have left out a lot of information. There are some great books out there and some pretty bad ones too. Here’s a good one on how to make beer at only $5.27 a gallon. Just think, the money you drop to begin your own home beer brewing, will be recovered really quickly.

Good brewing

Jim

Home Beer Brewing: Hobby Or Way Of Life

2007-10-21T14:57:00.001-07:00

Learning home beer brewing is like everything else… a process that takes a little time. The old cliché of learning to do it right the first time, is really good advice. You want to be able to actually drink AND enjoy your beer. To this end, until you are absolutely sure that home beer brewing is something you want to do then it is a good idea to drop a little money and get yourself a home beer brewing starter kit – a Microbrewing Kit. They aren’t expensive and they will get you started right away. Once you determine that this is something you really want to do in a bigger way, then you can get out there and set yourself up with hydrometers, chillers, learn about the grains, malt, hops, yeast. You can get involved with the boiling and the cooling, the fermentation, the bottling and the different sorts of beers you might like.

You can gather beer recipes and join brewing groups and do all the other things that guys do when they really get involved and are passionate about their hobby. You might even decide to turn your hobby into an income. I recommend that before you jump into the deepest end of the whole home beer brewing pool, start small and see whether its something you want to take on and at what level.

As the Aussies say, “Let’s blow the froth off the top of a few”.

Jim Allan

Home Beer Brewing: Learning Home Beer Brewing - An Easy Choice

2007-10-21T04:23:00.000-07:00

Like most everything else, the cost of beer is making it easy for guys to decide to learn home beer brewing. Once you have the equipment then its all go. The best way to begin is to drop the cash for a home brewing kit which will save you the hassle of having to drive around picking up individual pieces of equipment you need to begin your home brewing experience.

Most entry level kits are really good value and they include some special equipment that makes the job of producing your first brews pretty rewarding.

Once you know how to make beer, and you can learn as you go, just think of a hot sunny day and some mates around for a BBQ and let them sample the results of your very own home beer brewing. There’s nothing like a nice cold beer on a hot day.

Jim Allan