Just Home Brew Tips

There are several words that you will be introduced to when brewing beer. Some of them are probably things that you have heard before such as pH, Ale, and Lager. This article will give a more in depth description of these terms as well as give you a variety of new homebrewing vocabulary that you may not have heard yet.

ABV – Alcohol by volume

ABW – Alcohol by weight

Airlock – a plastic top that lets carbon dioxide be released during fermentation without contaminating your brew.

Ale – top fermented beer Read the full post

Although it is true that people have been making beer and wine in their homes since at least 10,000 BC (that we can prove maybe much earlier) the modern notion of home brewing is very new.

Chances are that your father did not make beer at home.

Modern home brewing grew out of the dissatisfaction people started to feel in the early 1980s with the small selection of mostly bland beers. Craft beers, micro brews and brew pubs came on the scene to give people a choice of good taste.

Home brewing also made it s modern appearance. Read the full post

I like to make many different types of homemade wine, but this is one of my particular favourites. I have made this with real strawberries, but they are very very expensive when out of season, so take note of my very cheap ingredients, but the taste is exactly the same as with real strawberries.

So here is you shopping list:

2 litres of red (or purple) grape juice. Make sure it is pure. We hate additives!

1 small (500ml) bottle of strawberry sauce (You know, the type you squirt over your ice-cream)

1 kilo of sugar Read the full post

Hi everyone, i have to tell you that i am the absolute expert in making cheap wine. I live in England and the price of a bottle of cheap wine is extortionate over here, so if you live in a country like this you need to take careful note of what i am going to tell you.

You can read many articles that tell you that you need this and that and all the general paraphanalia that wine-making stores tell you are essential for the job, but from years of experience, i know otherwise. Follow my simple guide and you will have success. Read the full post