Strawberry Wine
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Strawberry Wine Recipe: The Only Recipe You’ll Ever Need

Strawberries are one of my favourite fruits, how can you capture that taste in a strawberry wine recipe? With any fruit wine recipe, the main flavour you want to really shine is the fruit you are using and sometimes it is tough to find…
Home Brew Answers Book

Just Released: Home Brew Answers Kindle Book – A Free Download For Christmas

It has been just over a year since I started Home Brew Answers. The whole idea behind it was to share all my experiences of brewing beer. The site has now grown to see a few thousand visitors a week so I wanted to create something to give…
Beer Recipes
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Install This Chrome Extension To Make Reading Beer Recipes A Whole Lot Easier

When it comes to sitting down and researching a new beer recipe you are working on anything that makes the job simpler and easier has got to be good, right? It is obviously a lot more fun actually making the beer than doing the groundwork.…
Reusing Yeast
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Reusing Yeast From One Beer To The Next

Reusing yeast isn’t a novel idea, in fact, in commercial breweries it’s the norm. A commercial brewery will reuse yeast by cropping the yeast from the top or bottom of a fermenter just after the primary fermentation has finished. The yeast…
Ginger Wine Recipe
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Fiery Medium Ginger Wine Recipe

This Ginger wine recipe was one of the very first country wine recipes I ever made. The great thing about ginger of course is it’s available year-round in the supermarket and a little goes a long way in comparison to using fruit in wines.…
Making A Yeast Starter
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Do I Need To Make A Yeast Starter?

You probably know a thing or two about yeast starters, either you’ve read about them, heard other brewers talk about “making a yeast starter” or you make one before brewing every batch. Home brewers will often profess it's provided…
Home Brewing Books
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What Are The Best Home Brewing Books?

Home brewing books are a secret vice of mine, I seem to accumulate them and it doesn’t really matter what area they cover I will read them cover to cover. If you want to be a better brewer, understand what is going on in the fermenter…
Pear Wine Recipe
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Simple & Delicious Pear Wine Recipe

Country wines tend to be really simple to make and this Pear wine recipe is no different. With all country wines, of course, the most important part of creating a delicious wine is pushing the flavour of the fruit to the forefront. The good…
Start Home Brewing
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What Is The Best Way To Start Home Brewing?

Starting any new pursuit is hard, starting home brewing, however, can be especially tricky with the sheer amount of technical jargon and intricacies. It doesn’t have to be especially hard however and that is what I want to discuss in the article.…
Strong Ale Recipe

Strong Ale / Old Ale Recipe – Brew It, Drink It & Age It

A beer that isn’t as popular as it should be are Strong Ales / Old Ales. Currently, so many beers are hop driven it’s easy to forget just how much flavour and character big malt driven strong beers can provide. A quality I often try to achieve…