Planning to start brewing your own beer soon? Check out my shop and recommended gear page with all the brewing equipment, recipes and kits I've used in the past as well as some items on my own wish list. Check out the Menu to find out more!
Keeping your brewing equipment clean and sanitized is of chief concern to all brewers, however, there are certainly some phases of brewing which require a little less sanitizer than others.
When I...
I really enjoy most aspects of homebrewing, but I have to admit that even I find that bottling is a laborious task at the best of times. Could swing top or flip-top bottles be the...
For me, brewing beer is always a pleasurable activity that I have to sandwich between other obligations in my life. Too often I'm halfway through my brew day or bottling day (yep still doing that!)...
Over the last couple of months, I've been rethinking the way that I chill my wort on brew day. Is there a greener and more efficient way than using a conventional immersion chiller? Well, putting my...
As a keen brewer and someone very conscious of environmental conservation, the amount of water it takes to 'chill' an average size batch of beer is soul-crushing.
My first attempt at using an...
When you get into homebrewing the first horror story you hear is that you MUST cool your wort down fast after the boil.
Normally on day one, you are dealing with a kit you got for your birthday...