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!
So, it's your first time brewing beer and you have just found out that you need to cool the wort before adding the yeast, but how do you do it with no equipment.
Don't fret. An ice bath is a tried...
As homebrewers we both know that having clean and sanitized brewing equipment is vital, but when do we sanitize and when do we not?
It's unnecessary to sanitize a brew kettle before using it to...
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...
As a home brewer you probably know that your yeast performs best when it is suspended in your beer, fermenting away. So, surely giving your fermenter/carboy a good shake would help the yeast out,...