Make Beer at Home
Make Beer at Home with a Couple of Buckets
Who loves beer? Who loves beer?
I love beer!!
As I mentioned in the 20 Million Dollar Dream Cottage article brewing beer is a weekend hobby of mine.
For anyone that has gone to a U-Brew shop to make beer you probably thought you would get a lot of beer for a cheap price.
Then you found out that you got a lot of cheap beer!
The most common recipe in U-Brew shops requires a malt extract. This looks like a dark thick syrup and provides the sugar needed to create alcohol. The problem with malt extracts is that they usually don’t provide the best flavour and always leaves the finished beer way too sweet. I like to compare malt extracts to concentrated orange juice. They provide a cheap alternative to the real thing, but never taste nearly as good.
Recently products have come on the market that are called Ready Brew kits and let home brewers make professional quality beer from home. Magnotta, a brewery in Ontario, won the Canadian Brewer of the Year for 2006 and produces a ready brew kit called Festa Brew. The Festa Brew kit consists of 23L of wort (unfermented beer), a pouch of dry yeast and instructions. The wort is the same stuff that is sold to the public in their award winning beers. All the home brewer has to do is put the wort in a bucket with the yeast, let it sit for 5 days, transfer it to another bucket, and 10 days later transfer it to bottles or a keg. That’s about it. The end result is professional quality beer made right at home for about $10 per 24 bottles.
If you are interested at all in picking up this hobby I would suggest starting with one of these ready brew kits and simply follow the instructions.
Happy Brewing!
I’m game. I’ll give it a try — if I can get good ingredients in NYC (I’m sure I can, I just have to find them).
On my India blog in one of the Cochin entries I describe Toddy, a home brew of Kerala. Anyone have any Toddy home brew tips?
–C8j
I really like beer too - do you need to be of age to purchase this ‘brew at home’ kit? If not, then I will surely need to find and buy and brew this beer.
My high school microbiology teacher used to brew it in his bathtub.
i have a friend who’s going to be making beer at his house. i think this is kind of the new trend… i can’t wait to try it!
(i’m too lazy to make it myself)
Of course as a Viking from Norway, I love beer. This sounds like a great idea. I was at a microbrewery in Trondheim last weekend and they make beer with a personal touch too:-)
my grandfather was from trondheim, and i’m just making a batch of festa brew brown ale. Unfortunately I can’t buy aqua vit in canada anymore to go with it>
My Buddy Blair + another friend John make awesome HomeBrew* Sometimes with a lil extra “Ooomph” in it too!!
I know Magnotta is an excellent Winery as swell so they may have some Wine Kits too*
I’ll try it. It looks cool:) It goes perfect while playing Worms
I love hearing about beers from around the world and different home brew recipes. I’ve come across a pumpkin recipe in the past, but haven’t made it. Sounds great though. Newyork Dude I’m going to look into Toddys I’ve only heard of King Fisher from India before.
I’ve given this hobby some thought in the past and I will absolutely file your suggestion away in my noggin. I’m just a little afraid of giving beer a try and coming away with a kitchen full of nasty brew.
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Beer! I would like to try making the OpenBeer one day, nice blog!
Thanks for the tips. My husband has been itching to make beer at home. We just may try it.
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