Many beer connoisseurs like ourselves at one point or another get tempted to brew their own beer, it’s cheap, fun and pretty easy. Over the next few weeks we are going to cover the processes of home brewing and this week we are starting off with the beginners basic brew kit. So if you want us to dumb down home brewing read on.
The basic starters brew kit contains a big tub with an airlock, a hydrometer, a big spoon, a capper and a few other bits and pieces to make your first brew. To start off with you will put the sugars and the can of brown gooey beer mix into your sterilized tub, add water and the yeast give it a big stir and then seal the lid with the airlock in place this will start bubbling over the next few days as the yeast reacts with your mix of beer goodness and lets off CO2. After about a week you can then bottle and cap (testing with the hydrometer first will confirm its ready), when you bottle you put a bit of sugar in your bottles that the remaining yeast reacts with, this is what carbonates the beer in the bottle and they should be about ready in a week.
So there it is, pretty simple right? This is the easiest way to get into home brewing as it’s just like making cordial. There are more advanced ways to brew beer with more steps involved that we will cover in the next few weeks. These kits are available in places like K Mart and many are made by Australia’s Cooper’s brewery, they are a good start but we also recommend finding a home brew shop in your area as they will give you more choice of beers types ready to dump into to your brew tub to get brewing.
