Home Brew Basics

First and foremost, it’s extremely important that all of your equipment and accessories are clean and sanitary for good tasting beer. The basic ingredients need to make beer are water, malted barley, hops and yeast.

First you need to make the wort. Wort is the liquid extracted from the mashing process. Wort contains the sugars that will be fermented by the brewing yeast to produce alcohol. To make wort in very simple terms the malted barley (malt), hops and water are boiled for a period of time. The wort is then poured in the fermenter and cooled. After it is cooled the yeast (brewers yeast) is placed in the fermenter and an airlock is placed over the fermenter.

The yeast then begins to do its thing and grows as it consmes the sugars. After about 1 to 2 weeks the yeast will fall to the bottom of the fermenter. The beer is then bottled and stored for a couple of weeks to carbonate.

Home Brewing Training

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641 Home Brew Recipes

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Make Beer at Home

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Fermenter/Batch Size
Mr. Beer
Beer Machine
Coopers
2.0 Gallons
6.0 Gallons
2.6  Gallons
12 oz Beers per Batch
21
28
64
Cost per 12 oz Beer - low*
$0.63
$0.83
$0.42
$0.31
$0.62
$0.47
Cost per 12 oz Beer - high*
Number of Brew Packs Available
16
14
19
Custom Recipes & Ingredients
Available
Yes
No
No
Carbonation Method
Natural
Tablets
CO2
Brew Packs
American Ale

American Brown  Ale

American Golden Lager

American Pilsner
Light

Canadian Dark     Lager

Canadian Light

Canadian Red      Lager

Australian Light    Lager

British Porter

British Golden      Ale

British Scotch      Ale

German Plisner

Danish Golden     Light
Lager

Draught

Real Ale

Bitter

Dark Ale

Stout

Australian Pale     Ale

Canadian Blonde

Mexican Cerveza

European Lager

IPA

Pilsner

Wheat Beer

Irish Stout

Australian Bitter

Traditional
Draught

Heritage Lager

Sparkling Ale

Lawnmower Lager

West Coast Pale Ale

Wheat                Weizenbier

Doppel Bock

Irish Stout

Red Ale

Golden Lager

American Blonde Ale

Canadian
Draught

English Nut         Brown Ale

Octoberfest         Vienna Lager

BohemianCzech Plisner

Witty Monk         Witbier

Pilothouse          Pilsner

Oatmeal Stout

Black Tower        Porter

American Devil    IPA
* Prices based on cost per brew kits, does not include price of equipment
Home Beer Brew Making Kits, Supplies, Bottles & Recipe Reviews
Compare three of the most popular suppliers of home brewing kits, Mr Beer, Beer Machine and Coopers. Besides your basic home beer kits each company supplies optional recipes as well as other equipment for brewing beer at home. Simply click on one of the logos below for more information.