Maris Otter
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Tips for Buying Home Brew Supplies

When it comes to buying home brewing supplies, there are a few things you need to think about. Things like ingredients you need to think about quality, cost and freshness. Equipment purchases mean thinking about how useful is it, practicality…
Open Fermentation

Open Fermentation Without the Contamination

I’ve read a lot of people making a big deal about open fermentation, especially home brewers thinking anything other than a carboy fitted with a bung and an airlock will lead to infected beer and spoiled brews. Open fermentation makes many…
Apple Wine Recipe
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Apple Wine Recipe – Simple & Rich Apple Wine

Apples are one of the fruits that can be easily gathered around the beginning of autumn. There are countless trees not only in people's gardens but also escapees that grow wild. The problem with a lot of these apple varieties that have…
Elderberry Wine Recipe
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Elderberry Wine Recipe – A King Among Fruit Wines

Elderberries are one of the UK best fruits for making wine. Often referred to as the “Englishman’s grape” elderberry wine is a rich, full bodied wine and there is usually a plentiful supply of the fruit throughout much of the UK you…
Clone Beer Recipes
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Clone Beer Recipes – Recreate Your Favourite Commercial Beers

When I started brewing my first few beers were commercial beers I’d tried to recreate. In essence, they were a clone beer. I would say that was somewhat of my motivation to start brewing in the first place, I wanted to recreate some of my…
How To Make Mead

How To Make Mead

Here at Home Brew Answers there are hundreds of articles about beer and wine, there are recipes for liqueurs and even soda but so far we have neglected the oldest of all alcoholic beverages which is Mead. In this article, we are going to…
Damson Wine recipe
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Damson Wine Recipe – Rich & Perfect For Aging

Damsons or the Damson plum as the name suggests are a close relative to the plum and a member of the Rose family. They are a common tree to find in many gardens and wild throughout the UK which means many people have a glut of them in early…
NEIPA New England IPA Recipe
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NEIPA A Perfect Beer To Experiment With – New England IPA Recipe

NEIPA or New England IPA, a tropical fruit laden, murky and silky smooth beer style has captured the hearts and minds of craft beer devotees for quite a while now. It is now gaining attention outside of this niche with coverage in the national…
Gooseberry wine recipe
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Gooseberry Wine Recipe – Fantastic White Wine

Gooseberries may not be one of the cool kids in the world of berries. Often overlooked for strawberries, blackberries or blueberries in terms of eating but for winemaking the gooseberry is a king amongst berries. This gooseberry wine recipe…
MILD Ale recipe

Mild Ale Recipe – Brewing The Perfect Dark Session Beer

An English Mild may be one of those beers that are perfectly suited for home brewing. It’s one of those beers that isn’t readily available in most pubs, I wouldn’t know where to begin finding a Mild on draught in Cornwall where I live.…