One Of The Most Important Parts of Brewing
Out of all the things you can do to make sure your brew day goes well, cleaning and sanitising your brewing equipment has to be one of the most important as well as the easiest.
Neglecting this simple task though is one of the easiest ways…
Cleaning Vs. Sanitising
There is a difference between cleaning, sanitizing and sterilizing. First off let’s get sterilizing out of the way because as home brewers, sterilizing is not something that can be done economically.
To make something sterile you have to…
Cleaning Your Gear And What To Use
Some cleaning and sanitizing is more important depending on which part of the brew day it’s for. As a general rule anything you use before the beer is boiled doesn’t need to be sanitized to such an extent because the boiling process itself…
Sanitising Your Equipment & A Few Tips
Everything that comes into contact with your beer after it’s boiled needs to be disinfected and sanitized. There are a number of cheap solutions available and they will all minimize the risk of infection in your beer
Bleach: Again bleach…
Extract Brewing with Steeped Grain and Hops
Extract brewing opens up a whole variety of options to the home brewer to create countless types of beer without the need to invest in too much equipment. This type of brewing is an ideal progression from making beer kits. In essence you create…
Quick-Start Guide to Our Brewday
Let's take a look at what our brew day is going to look like, in essence a quick start guide to brewing one of the beers I've listed down below.These short steps are all you need if you just want to get going right away. However, below I…
Speciality Grains
For an extract brewer there are a number of speciality grains that can be used to make a wide range of different beers providing a lot of scope to start experimenting with all sorts of combinations.
There are 2 types of malted grains,…
Using Speciality Grains
Our extract beer will be made with an unhopped malt extract and further to this we will steep grains in hot water to add further complexity to the malt extract base. The steeping of special grains, such as chocolate and black malts, will turn…
Hop Use in the Boil
There are very many varieties of hops available to the home brewer and at first it may seem overwhelming. However, they are great for adding different flavours to a beer and give the brewer scope to make something completely unique.
When…
Boiling Your Beer with Hops
To extract bitterness from the hops they need to be boiled. Alpha acids in the hops are the primary source of bitterness and aren’t very soluble, boiling for around an hour is the most effective length of time to extract the alpha acids.
As…