Planet Of Beer

Once a mutual gathering of list-ticking anoraks and wierdy beardies with a fondness for Morris dancers, the beer festival has seen a sudden rise in mainstream popularity, predominantly due to a renaissance in cider and perry drinking. I’ve compiled a novel selection of widely available European beers that should cater to all tastes.

Newcastle Brown Ale

As accessible a dark ale as was ever brewed, Newcastle Brown has proved popular with both enlightened students and Northern football hooligans, who have discovered that the heavyweight bottle makes a fine bludgeoner.

Hoegaarden

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When it comes to making beer at home, the first thing you need to do is to go out and purchase a very basic home brewing kit. Expect to pay anywhere from $100 to $150 for the kit. To get the brewing underway you will need a number of items. In general, this list includes a stopper, a plastic hose, a brew pot, a primary fermenter, bottle brush, bottle capper (if you choose to use glass bottles), bottles, a bottling bucket and a thermometer. You will also require a variety of household items including a small bowl, saucepan, rubber spatula, oven mitts/pot handlers, and a large mixing spoon that is made of either plastic or stainless steel.

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For many people home brewing is nice hobby and for small group it is also a small, work from home, business. A lot of people across the USA are now brewing in some sort of way, be it for fun or for profit. Home brewing is not that hard to do, it can make you a bit of profit but, the best reason of all, if can be a lot of fun to do and because of this it is a favorite hobby of a many people across the world.

What is needed for a home brew?

You might think that you won’t be able to learn brewing your own beer or wine but it is not that hard. Maybe you should start with one the many brewing kits out there, this would gradually help you to learn what you need when it comes to the ingredients needed. When you start to see the results, don’t expect a great taste in the beginning and all of the time, you will addicted and the brewing bug has taken you.

Before you start your first brewing project you should first do some reading on the subject to find out what is the method you want to try first. Do you want to start with brewing beer or wine, or maybe both? Learn what supplies you need for every brew batch you are going to make, know how much time it will take to get the best results. Make sure you have all the ingredients you will need and also, if needed, the equipment for the brew process. You do not want to start searching for things or need to buy any extra ingredients while you are in the middle of the brewing process.

Dream big, start small

If you are new to this brewing hobby you will need to practice a lot before you can call yourself a master of the craft, you will make a lot mistakes but you will learn from them and in the end you will have perfected the art of brewing. This should not be too difficult as long as you are motivated and you will be when your friends and family start to encourage you.

Having mastered the art of brewing you can then take advantage of your skill so you can give parties and supply the beverages for just a small amount of the investments it would normally cost or you could start you own small business.

Making some money from your hobby.

Once people start to hear about the parties you supply with nice home brew beverages for lower then normal costs you see the power of word of mouth advertisement. Your best customers are your friends who really enjoyed you wine or beer and they start to tell their friends, family an other people. Maybe the profit will not be that big in the beginning and it does take some effort to deliver a continues quality but there could come a point that it could just become your main income. And that’s what we all would want to have, our hobby as a business.

This does not mean that brewing you own wine or beer can not stay a hobby that you just love to do and share with others, maybe the idea of working from you home doesn’t appeal to you at all. Just keep doing what you love the most.

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A person can have many reason to start brewing his or her own beer. A reason could be that beer you brew yourself could taste better and will surely cost a lot less then when you buy it in the store. If you want to start with your newly found hobby and see results as soon as possible then use a home brewing kit for the easiest results. And if you like various beer flavors then a beer kit could also help you out because you can get them in a lot of variations. Chances are that your favorite beer is already available.

So what is in a brewing kit, what are the differences and what will it cost you?

Starters

The starter kit will get you all the the things you will need for that first batch of beer you are going to brew. You will get a keg which is made from polyvinyl chloride, this is food grade, shatter resistant and very light. Obviously there will also be a lid and assembly set for a tap. There will be some reusable bottle caps included with universal openings. Often people who brew their beer at home use PET soft drink bottles to bottle the beer in. These caps will fit those kind of bottles. There is always the option to buy new clean plastic bottles if you prefer. Last but certainly not least, you will get a so called “Brew Pack” this holds all the beer mix, sanitizer and yeast you need for you first two gallon batch of beer. And of course there will be an instruction manual included as well. All this will probably set you back about $40.

Premium

On top of what is included in the starter kit the premium variation holds the following items. Eight (one liter) bottles, labels and caps. These bottles can be reused. They choose the number eight because most home beer brewers prefer that number of bottles when there are two of you drinking the batch. The labels who are self adhesive give your bottles that authentic look. Also included in the premium pack is a brewers guide. You can always get a refill brew pack you could use once the first pack is used and bottled, always for two gallons. The brewer’s guide should not be mistaken for the starter kit instruction manual. The guide is a valuable reference that will help you in the years to come while you practice this wonderful hobbby. The premium beer kit will cost you around $50.

Professional

In the professional kit you will find everything that was in the premium one but this time you will get enough for brewing yourself three batches of beer which is about six gallons. On top of that there will be a brew-o-meter, hop scale, funnel, measuring spoon and sugar measure. With this kit you must be sure that you want to go through with this hobby, not because it would be a waste of money but it would be a waste of good beer. A professional set is for people who have seen someone else using a kit and now wants to do it on their own. A kit like this will probable be about $100.

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