Beer Making Kits

Hurricane Alex Rain Water Beer, finally the taste testing! Also on tap Coopers Selection Wheat Beer canned kit beer taste testing.

After getting a fresh Coopers English Bitter kit from makebeer.net and it turned out fine, but tasting it in tandem with commercially bottled Coopers revealed I simply do not like the Pride of Ringwood hops that Coopers uses, I now needed to test a Coopers kit from my local brewshop. I’d made Coopers kits purchased from my local brewshop some time ago and they turned out poorly. Ruling out the hop bittering, was it my fermentation temperatures or was I getting damaged kits (shipped or stored to hot making them go bad before their expiration date) from my local brewshop? We finally find out in this video.

The bottom line in all homebrew beer making is if you, your family & friends like it, you’ve made a successful beer. Anyone who tells you differently isn’t, uh, well, honestly, isn’t anything.

Cheers, have a homebrew!

Please take the time to give me a thumbs-up on this video, and thank you very much for watching.

Here’s my video on collecting the Hurricane Alex Rain Water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZ9EzxTGhw

Here’s my video on filtering the Hurricane Alex Rain Water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcl4Hm-kUK0

Here’s the video I made on brew day for the Hurricane Alex Rain Water Beer, Banks’s Mild Ale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Tbhg8hHHw

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http://earnalot.org/review/homebeermaking shares some common mistakes made by home beer brewers.
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Homebrew Troubleshooting
4 Common Mistakes of Home Beer Brewing

The only way to keep up with the latest about Home Beer Brewing is to constantly stay on the lookout for new information. If you read everything you find about Home Beer Brewing, it won’t take long for you to become an influential authority.

The best time to learn about Home Beer Brewing is before you’re in the thick of things. Wise readers will keep reading to earn some valuable Home Beer Brewing experience while it’s still free.
When you’re learning about something new, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of relevant information available. This informative article should help you focus on the central points.

Have you ever wondered if what you know about homemade beer is accurate? Consider the following paragraphs and compare what you know to the latest info on homemade beer.
There’s no doubt that the topic of homemade beer can be fascinating. If you still have unanswered questions about homemade beer, you may find what you’re looking for in this article.
The following section should go a long way toward clearing up any uncertainty that may remain.

The biggest single mistake made in home beer brewing is in the cleanliness of the beer making equipment. The trouble is most home beer brewing is done by men and for some reason cleanliness is not really seen as a macho trait so a quick rinse or a wipe down with a dirty cloth is often the extent of the cleaning many men will do, particularly if a few friends have got together for a home beer making (and drinking) session.
Look, there is nothing sissy or unmanly about making sure your home beer making equipment is clean and sanitised and it has a tremendous effect on the taste of your homebrew beer. Once you get into the routine of cleaning your homebrew equipment it will only take about 30-45 minutes and after a while it will become a habit so you will hardly notice doing it.
So come on, be a real beer brewing man and clean properly.

Another big mistake people make when starting to make homemade beer is not recording and making notes of everything they do during the home beer brewing process.
If you Brew an uncommonly good beer after previously getting mediocre results how will you know what you suddenly changed to get such a good result if you don’t have a record of the steps you have been taking during the brewing process?

The third biggest mistake people make when home beer brewing is always using the same yeast. This is a mistake made by most people who use the so called ‘Complete Home Beer Making’ kits. The yeast in those kits is often a very average ale yeast and has usually been sitting there too long.
To get the best results you really need to get some authentic yeast strains from a reputable yeast supplier. This yeast will be healthier and fresher and will enable you to brew a greater variety of beers, not to mention ensuring fermentation gets under way first time every time.

Finally, most people starting out to make homemade beer make the mistake of following the instruction on the home brew beer kits they buy. The reason this is a mistake is the home brew beer kits do not usually include boiling in their instructions. I am not going to go into the details here of why that makes a difference but when you next do some home beer brewing give it a try and taste the difference.

Well I hope this article has answered some of your home beer making questions but if you are serious about brewing excellent tasting beer rather than just something to get drunk on why not invest a few dollars in a good home beer brewing book and start making a homemade beer that is better than the commercially brewed beers?

Now you can be a confident expert on Homebrew Beer. OK, maybe not an expert. But you should have something to bring to the table next time you join a discussion on Homebrew Beer.
I trust that what you’ve read so far has been informative.

Now that wasn’t hard at all, was it? And you’ve earned a wealth of knowledge, just from taking some time to study an expert’s word on Home Beer Brewing.

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Our series of videos, The Best Guide to Homebrewing, will show you all of the steps for brewing your own beer. We only use the “extract” process and make very high-quality, good-tasting beer. While there are many different ways to homebrew, we break-down our process into 9 short videos.

This video shows you how to Keg your batch of Homebrew.

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Here’s a quick breakdown of a extract recipe kit from Northern Brewer.

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Homebrewing – it’s a fun and creative process of brewing your own beer. While it can be intimidating at first, with a little practice you, too, can become a great homebrewer!

Our series of videos, The Best Guide to Homebrewing, will show you all of the steps for brewing your own beer. We only use the “extract” process and make very high-quality, good-tasting beer. While there are many different ways to homebrew, we break-down our process into 9 short videos.

Homebrewing – it’s a fun and creative process of brewing your own beer. While it can be intimidating at first, with a little practice you, too, can become a great homebrewer!

Our series of videos, The Best Guide to Homebrewing, will show you all of the steps for brewing your own beer. We only use the “extract” process and make very high-quality, good-tasting beer. While there are many different ways to homebrew, we break-down our process into 9 short videos.

This video shows you how to clean and sanitize your kegging equipment. Cleaning & Sanitizing is very important to ensure the quality of your beer!

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All the equipment you’d need to start homebrewing your own beer.

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Homebrewing – it’s a fun and creative process of brewing your own beer. While it can be intimidating at first, with a little practice you, too, can become a great homebrewer!

Our series of videos, The Best Guide to Homebrewing, will show you all of the steps for brewing your own beer. We only use the “extract” process and make very high-quality, good-tasting beer. While there are many different ways to homebrew, we break-down our process into 9 short videos.

This video will show you the steps to bottle your new homebrew.

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Homebrewing – it’s a fun and creative process of brewing your own beer. While it can be intimidating at first, with a little practice you, too, can become a great homebrewer!

Our series of videos, The Best Guide to Homebrewing, will show you all of the steps for brewing your own beer. We only use the “extract” process and make very high-quality, good-tasting beer. While there are many different ways to homebrew, we break-down our process into 9 short videos.

This video shows you how to clean and sanitize your bottling equipment for bottling your homebrew. Cleaning & Sanitizing is very important to ensure the quality of your beer!

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Homebrewing – it’s a fun and creative process of brewing your own beer. While it can be intimidating at first, with a little practice you, too, can become a great homebrewer!

Our series of videos, The Best Guide to Homebrewing, will show you all of the steps for brewing your own beer. We only use the “extract” process and make very high-quality, good-tasting beer. While there are many different ways to homebrew, we break-down our process into 9 short videos.

This video shows you the equipment typically needed to brew your first batch of beer at home.
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Homebrewing – it’s a fun and creative process of brewing your own beer. While it can be intimidating at first, with a little practice you, too, can become a great homebrewer!

Our series of videos, The Best Guide to Homebrewing, will show you all of the steps for brewing your own beer. We only use the “extract” process and make very high-quality, good-tasting beer. While there are many different ways to homebrew, we break-down our process into 9 short videos.

This video shows you the equipment typically needed to brew your first batch of beer at home.

This video shows you how to clean and sanitize your equipment for brewing beer. It is a very crucial step to ensure your batch of homebrew turns out well, so make sure you have excellent cleaning and sanitizing skills.

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