Brewing

Brewing is an ancient art and is fairly easy and fairly cheap to get started with. If all your interested in is Beer then you should visit a home brew shop or supermarket and pick up a brewing kit. Which should have most if not all of the following:

• Long plastic spoon
• Fermenter (including lid, airlock and rubber seals)
• Bottle filling valve

This equipment can be used to brew other things than beer and should cost $60-$100 (Australian).

The number one tip I can offer is to do a good job cleaning your equipment. This really does make a huge difference to the outcome.

While many people claim that it is necessary to sterilise, it is more important simply to follow good common sense with regard to basic hygiene. you're basically doing some cooking with some food that will be sitting around for weeks (beer) or months (wine) and so if any greeblies get in - they will breed for that time and you'll end up with an awful mess.

if you trust yourself to be exceptionally clean, then do so, but otherwise, invest in some of the pink sterilising solutions you can get at a brew shop. Alternatively, try Aquashield.

A word of warning: be careful if you use sterilisers that aren't specifically for brewing!

You will be drinking this stuff later, and drinking bleach or other household sterilisation stuff is a Bad Idea™.

Topics

Equipment

• Brewing equipment

= Instructions

• Mead brewing

Drinks

• Mead
• Beer
• Spirits
• Cider
• Cyser
• Perry