Free Beer Recipes

Brewing beer in your home is an extremely rewarding past time. And these days, with the range of quality ingredients available online and from your local home brew supplier, it's easy to make excellent quality beers. With a little care and practice, you'll be able to make better tasting, and cheaper, beer than what you'd typically find in your local bottle shop.This site is dedicated to giving you plenty of recipes to try. It's not designed to teach you how to brew your own beer. There are alrea

Sanitising with Star San

Published on 2011-04-18 18:06:00

I've always used household bleach for my sanitising rituals. This was partly due to it being cheap, partly because it's also a good cleaner, and partly because the only alternatives I'd seen readily available here in NZ were Sodium metabisulphate and sodium percarbonate. From research, these two alternatives are not actually classified as sanitisers (although that doesn't stop them being sold as such).I actually use sodium percarbonate as my cleaner of choice. It's amazing at removing caked on g

Duesseldorf Altbier

Published on 2011-04-18 17:36:00

Schloesser AltbierI've been quietly interested in brewing one of these for a while now. It's not a widely brewed beer style, but it sounds interesting. It's also one of the few German Ale styles (the majority of German beers are lagers).An Altbier is fermented cool using ale yeast (I fermented mine at 16C using US-05). It's then lagered for a few weeks. So, while it's technically an ale, it uses techniques more similar to creating a lager.The only real problem I had was that my efficiency was do

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