Welcome to my Home Brew Section

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Welcome to my Home Brew Section. Below is a photo of the basic essentials you will need to brew your own beer.

You will need a brewing container, a bottle capper, a sugar measure, an airlock, a stirring spoon, a tube, a pipe cleaner, bottle caps and beer bottles. 

You will need a brewing container, a bottle capper, a sugar measure, an airlock, a stirring spoon, a tube, a pipe cleaner, bottle caps and beer bottles. 

My main advice I can give to produce a nice tasting beer is keep it clean and keep it cool. Sterilize everything that touches the beer. The most important being the brewing container. I boil a kettle and pour into the bottom and drain through the tap. Then I tip on its side and pour boiling water in and rotating the container very slowly in a full circle. Before I begin to bottle I sterilize them by rinsing them first then putting them in the oven on medium heat for about twenty minutes.

To keep it cool I mean don't brew an ale yeast at 30 deg for a couple of days. This will produce off flavors in your beer. Try and brew for at least a week or two at around 18 to 20 deg. You will know when its finished when the airlock stops making noise.

When bottling the beer don't add too much sugar. A lot of sugar will make the bottle explode, if you want extra alcohol this should be done when you add sugar in the container.

Finally it takes at least two weeks for the beer to carbonate in the bottle. Any earlier and you could have a flat beer. The longer you leave it the more chance the yeast will have to work its magic. Leaving it a bit longer will also ensure your beer has a frothy head. To get a good head and retain it is difficult with lighter colour beer concentrates, you normally need bittering hops and wheat malt if you want it to keep its head until you finish drinking. Darker beers normally have a good head retention.

I hope these few tips help. I have found this method to be very useful in my brewing over the years. My last and final tip would be to find a beer concentrate you will like. Don't make a stout if you like light crisp beers. My favorite beers so far has been from the Morgans premium and international range. In winter I like the Morgans Royal Oak Amber Ale and in summer I have liked the Morgans Canadian India Pale Ale.