Hosting guests over Christmas was the ideal opportunity for us to dish out a lot of our home-made food. The yoghurt was a great success, but without sufficient time to mature the beer was a mixed bag.
Finally the beer was ready for bottling, but having learnt from our mistakes the last time around we tried a new strategy this time. It worked surprisingly well…
Now that we’re brewing our second batch of beer, we’ve sealed our first 23 bottles of wine and cut our teeth – rather successfully – on making ginger beer, we’ve gathered together our top 10 tips for successful beer and wine making.
So this weekend we finally opened the home-brew beer and it was… quite nice actually. In fact, very nice. Between four of us we got through the best part of four pints and the empty bottles now stand lined up, waiting for sterilisation so they can be used again.
After two weeks in the fermenter, it was finally time to bottle the beer this weekend. So, we hoisted the fermenter onto the worktop, tested its gravity and got our sterilised bottles ready…
Beer is very easy to brew, and it’s one of the most cost-effective self-sufficiency moves you can make. You can quickly and easily set up a small brewery under your kitchen counter and, a week or two later, be snapping open your first few home-brewed pints. Here’s how.