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Homemade Beer: It's Easy with a Beer Brewing Kit!

The good news is it is easier than ever to make homemade beer, especially with a beer brewing kit. There has been a steady increase in the homebrewing market and the industry has responded. There are many great books, e-books, video tutorials, and beer brewing kits out there to choose from that can get the beginning home brewer on their way quickly without spending too much money.

3 Things You Should Know Homemade Beer

Most people think homemade beer is difficult and expensive. But the truth is:

1) The start-up costs are NOT astronomical!
2) The actual process to brew your own beer is NOT overly complicated.
3) It IS possible to create great-tasting beer at home!

How To Make Beer at Home

basic steps to give you an idea of what you are in for....

The basics of how to make homemade beer are described below. You can make the process very simple (using beer brewing kits) or very complex, depending on your experience and what type of beer you are brewing.

1. Clean and sanitize all equipment and bottles.
2. Create the wort (unfermented beer).
3. Transfer to a fermenter (large holding tank).
4. Take a hydrometer reading, for a base reading.
5. Add yeast and seal the fermenter.
6. Allow beer to ferment - time varies based on various conditions.
7. Take another hydrometer reading to make sure the fermentation is complete.
8. Bottle the beer (this is usually considered the most tedious and boring part of brewing your own beer.)
9. Condition the beer for about 2 weeks - usually best to store where you stored the fermenter.
10. Clean and sanitize all equipment - this makes step one easier next time.
11. Chill your beer to your preference, take off cap, and ENJOY!!!

Easy Homemade Beer with Beer Brewing Kits

Beer Brewing Kits - What Are They?

The easiest way to start making your own beer at home is with a beer brewing kit. Now, if you search the web you'll find that there are two different types of beer making kits:

1. the kind that contain everything you'll need (equipment, ingredients, instructions).
2. the kind that contains only the ingredients for a particular style of beer.

There are several beer brewing kits that contain just about everything you need to start making your own beer. These kits range in price from $45 to $150 and you can usually get 1 to 3 batches of beer from the initial kit ingredients. Now it should be noted that some of the beer brewing kits kind of abbreviate some of the processes that a homebrewer does with standard equipment, such as boiling the malt to create the wort. These "complete" beer brewing kits are geared to get you started easily and quickly.

The other type of beer brewing kits, which you can get at almost any online or physical homebrewing store, allow you to create a multitude of beers by providing the ingredients for a particular beer. As you progress in your homebrewing, you'll probably want to buy individual ingredients to really customize and experiment with your beers.

Helpful Hints for A Great Homemade Beer

1. The most unglamorous part, but one of the most important factors for good-tasting beer - Clean & Sterilize ALL of your equipment. If you do not, your beer will not taste good - PERIOD.

2. Water quality is very important. If you do not brew with good water, your beer won't be as good as it could be. You may want to look into using bottled or distilled water if your tap water is no good.

3. Always make sure the wort is the right temperature before adding the yeast - too warm and it'll kill the yeast; too cold and the yeast won't start fermenting.

4. Always make sure you ferment at the right temperature. It is very important that you don't leave your beer to ferment in a place of great temperature fluctuations.

5. Use the hydrometer, not just how long the beer has been fermenting, to check when your beer is ready to bottle.

Coopers Beer Brewing Kit

An Easy Way To Make Your Own Beer

Coopers Beer kits are a fantastic way to start brewing homemade beer. Not only does the kit provide all the specialized equipment you need to make an awesome beer, but they offer around 20 different types of beer that you can brew at home. So you can try your hand at brewing dark ales, stout, Mexican, or Canadian beers, among many others.

Easy, Great Tasting Homemade Beer

from a beer brewing kit

Coopers, a very well respected Australian beer, has been around since the late 1800's. In the late 1970's, Coopers began offering some of their unfermented wort in a bag for homebrewers in Australia. This soon turned into a wort concentrate to make it easier to ship. By the mid 1980's, Coopers began shipping their concentrated beer kits around the world.
Complete Stout Package

Everything you need for a dark brown beer with a persistent head resembling espresso creamer, a blend of coffee, chocolate and grain aromas, exceptional mouth feel and dark malt characteristics, the combination of malt tannins and hop bitterness results in a dry finish.

Complete Dark Ale Package

Everything you need to make a beer with rich mahogany color and a creamy head. Roasted malt aromas with a hint of chocolate, dominated by roasted malt flavours, sufficient hop bitterness to give balance and a dry finish.

Mexican Cerveza Package

Mexico is known for its arid lands, dusty conditions and oppressive heat. So it's not surprising that the people of Mexico are expert at quenching a thirst. Coopers Mexican Cerveza (beer) emulates the style of the finest quality beers exported from Mexico. This premium beer is light in style with a fresh clean taste, ideally served ice-cold with a wedge of lime or lemon.

English Bitter Package

Everything you need to make an English Bitter with brown copper color with red hues and a creamy head. It displays a pleasing floral aroma with a blend of toasty/sweet malt flavors finishing with a firm bitter finish

Complete Draught Package

Everything you need for a light yellow-gold color beer with a tightly packed white head, floral nose with a hint of malt, medium bodied palate with delicate hopping and a slightly bitter finish.

Canadian Blonde Package

Everything you need to make a Canadian Blonde with pale straw colour. Crisp pale malt aromas with a hint of spicy hops, clean pale malt flavours and a light-bodied palate that finishes with obvious hop bitterness.

Complete Real Ale Package

Everything you need to make an ale with bright golden color with a strong head. Pleasant blend of fruit and malt on the nose with a moderately bitter finish

Complete Lager Package

Everything you need to make a lager with straw color, golden hues, and a lacy white head. Light floral aromas follow through on a light to medium bodied palate with subtle malt and hop flavours and a clean finish.

Australian Pale Ale Package

Everything you need to make a beer in the style of the famous COOPERS ORIGINAL PALE ALE, which is considered an Australian icon. The finest 2-row barley, hops and specially selected yeast combine to produce a beer with fruity and floral characters, balanced with a crisp bitterness and compelling flavor perfect for every occasion

European Lager Package

Europe, being the birthplace of lager style beer, is considered to be the heartland of premium lager. Coopers European Lager captures the style of the finest quality lagers exported from Northern Europe . Serve well chilled in a tall, narrow glass with a generous head of 5cm or so and savor the herbaceous hop aroma and crisp finish.

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