Home brewing
Submitted by Dale on Thu, 2013-09-26 19:57
Howdy all, I'm looking at getting into a bit of home brewing, mainly beers, but occasional ciders for the cook. Any one on here doing some brewing and have some tips to pass on or some good beers to recommend to a novice?
cheers
Dale
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Mr Wolf
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Best book ever.How to brew.
Best book ever.
How to brew. By John Palmer.
It helped me out a lot.
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Shark B8
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Aussiehomebrewer forum
Aussiehomebrewer forum helped me out a lot. Depends how far u want to go with it.
ive got a fv fridge for keeping the temps steady, and a keg set up as the bottling gets a little long in the tooth after a while.
as far as beers go just experiment. Start with basics u will b surprised at the outcomes. Good luck with it have fun
I've had better luck with ales
Go big or go home..
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easy way to start off is to
easy way to start off is to get the instant brew flavour kits like the coopers ones from coles or a brew store. just buy a tin of flavour and mix it with water, add yeast and a little extra sugar than it says ;)
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or go to one of the brew it
or go to one of the brew it yourself type shops
no kegs to sterilise/clean up afterwards, they have flavors u can ttry out and its within cents of doing it yourself
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Kegs
+1 for using kegs, a lot less mucking about and the missus will have no idea how much you have guzzled in a session without all the empty stubbies covering the table. And as crezz says start with the instant ones from the supermarket, they taste alright to me and after a few you won't care anyway.
This habit is getting expensive!
Dale
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Thanks guys, keen to try
Thanks guys, keen to try Coopers Heritage, speaking to another person who reckons that a good one to start with and is a pretty good brew as well.
Cheers
Dale
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good luck mate! once you get
good luck mate! once you get the hang of it you can star experimenting by adding true ingrediance like ginger to ginger beer and real apples to ciders. it gets a bit addictive
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If you are going to bottle
If you are going to bottle the beer, try and score some glass bottles with screw tops. This way you wont need to use crown seals and require a bottle opener for your beers.
I scored a heap of glass mineral water bottles and used plastic coke bottle tops to get a great seal.
Brown glass is recommended for beer, as sunlight can taint the beer's flavour in white glass.