How to Make Home Brew Beer

Making your own home brew beer is a fun and low cost hobby that can provide many hours of entertainment. I can think of very few things that can compare to an ice cold beer after a hard day at work, after toiling in the garden or even just enjoying a cold one while sitting and relaxing with friends.

There are many reasons why you might decide to make your own home brew beer, the first and foremost reason many of us might start down the road of home brewing is the cost of home brewing when compared to buying commercial beers. At the time of writing the average 750ml bottle of beer or longneck as we call them in Australia is around the $4.50-$5.00 mark. For around $13 we can buy a home brew kit beer and for a further $4.50 or so we can purchase a 1kg bag of dextrose. When combined with water these two ingredients will make a 23 litre batch of home brew beer. Not all of this beer will be usable due to the sediment cake on the bottom of the fermenter but it will provide at least 28X750ml bottles of beer. Now that works out to be $0.63 per bottle. A bottle of good beer for 63 cents is a bargain as anyone can see. It can be made even cheaper though, if you use cheaper white sugar with your beer kit instead of dextrose you can bring the cost down to about 54 cents per bottle, incredible as it may seem. Although these prices apply to Australia where the publishers of this site are based and are current at the time of writing, consider making your own cost comparison by checking out the local supermarket or home brew shop for brewing supplies and then compare them to what you are paying at the local bottle shop. There is no doubt you will find significant savings by brewing your own beer wherever in the world you might live.

While you are enjoying your home brew beer and the money you are saving you will also find some measure of satisfaction that comes when you are drinking something that you have made yourself. I can honestly say that drinking a beer you have brewed yourself just tastes better and you have the bonus that the brewing method used to make home brew is a more natural one than found in a commercial beer. Commercial beers are brewed, then filtered and carbonated with high pressure CO2 gas. Home brew beer is brewed and then carbonated and conditioned in the bottle completely free of preservatives and the like. It also has a longer shelf life.

Our objective at howtomakehomebrewbeer.com is to introduce home brewing to novice home brewers and to those who are considering taking the first steps into home brewing. The focus of this site is on the most common method of making home brew beer, using a home brew beer kit. We examine the equipment required to make home brew beer, what ingredients are needed, where to get them and we also include a step by step guide to making home brew beer using a kit, expanding on the information that would be provided with the beer kit so that there is no guess work with your first batch of beer and your chances of a having an initial success will be greatly improved.

Home brewing really is quite easy and fun, we hope you enjoy this web site as it teaches you how to make home brew beer. As your homebrewing skills develop you might decide to try your hand at making spirits at home or to venture into the delightful world of cider making. Cider Recipes is an easy to read and informative website that will teach you how to make your own cider that surpasses commercial cider in taste and quality. Click here to visit www.cider-recipes.com. Fermenting and distilling spirits at home takes homebrewing to a whole new level combining fermentation and distillation to produce fine bourbon, whiskey, vodka and many more popular spirits. Learning How to moonshine is easy so click here to visit www.howtomoonshine.org.

Happy homebrewing!