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Start Brewing Your Own Beer For $43!
It’s no wonder that home brewing has seen such a surge in popularity recently. Beer lovers – searching for premium beer flavor – faced with an easy and inexpensive method of making delicious home brewed beer have started brewing their own in droves. Home brew equipment kits are readily available to help you get started at a reasonable price, like Beer College’s Home Brewing Starter Kit which is available for $43. Just add ingredients and you are well on your way to preparing delicious and cheap homemade beer.
Why Get Your Home Brew Kit From Beer College
Beer College’s Home Brewing Starter Kit is an affordable option for the first time home brewer who wants to get their feet wet without a large investment. Unlike our competitors who up their price by packaging your kit with equipment you probably won’t ever use, we only give you exactly what you need.
What You Need To Start Brewing Beer
The most important element of any home brewing kit is the primary fermenter – an airtight food-grade 5 gallon container with an airlock on the lid. Your beer will spend the most time in here. Once you have mixed the ingredients to make your beer into what’s called the wort, you pour the wort into the fermenting container to allow the alcohol to be produced. The container must be airtight so that oxygen does not get in to disrupt the fermentation process. But the airlock allows the carbon dioxide and other gases that are produced during fermentation to escape without causing your soon-to-be beer to explode.
While you’re waiting for your beer to ferment, you can test the wort using something called a hydrometer to see how far along it is. A hydrometer – which looks a lot like a thermometer – measures the wort’s specific gravity while fermentation is taking place. This is used to determine the alcohol content of your beer and tells you when your beer is ready to bottle.
Once your beer is done fermenting, you will transfer it into a bottling bucket using a straightforward siphon. The bottling bucket is outfitted with a spigot that makes it easy to pour your beer into their destined container. In addition to this, by siphoning the beer into a secondary container, you can separate the beer from the residue that will collect at the bottom of your primary fermenter. Once your beer is in the bottling bucket, you will mix it with some sugar to start the carbonation process and then pour it into its intended bottles.
Your home brewing kit will also contain a non-porous heat resistant brewing paddle as well as no-rinse sterilizer powder. A very important part of brewing beer at home is preventing contaminants from getting into your wort. Even the slightest contaminant can result in beer with a funny taste. The no-rinse sterilizer is an easy way to clean your equipment before you begin brewing. When making your wort, many people opt to use a wooden spoon to stir. However, because wood is porous this can result in impurities held in the wood entering your wort. For this reason, we include a non-porous brew paddle with all our kits.
Beer College’s Home Brewing Starter Kit does not contain beer bottles, bottle caps or a capper. While these can be worth the investment down the road, we find most beginner brewers prefer to bottle their beer in empty soda bottles – or PET bottles. PET bottles are strong enough to withstand the pressure from carbonation and function just as well as beer bottles. Not only does bottling using PET bottles save a considerable amount of time and help the environment, it also keeps down your residual costs whenever you go to brew up a new batch!
Ready to get started? Find out how you can begin brewing your own beer at home for $43 using Beer College’s Home Brewing Starter Kit.
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Home Brewing Tools : Home-Brewing Hydrometers
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- Hydrometer Test Jar for Home Brewing or Wine Making 12 Inches Tall $2.30 The Economy Test Jar has a wide plastic base to prevent tipping, and is 14 1/4″ tall…. |
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Sainstore Refractometer for Measuring Sugar Content for Beer or Wine $31.44 This refractometer from Learn To Brew is for measuring the sugar content of beer and includes an automatic temperature compensation of 10 – 30 degree Celsius. No tools are needed for calibration. This refractomerter can replace your homebrew hydrometer and is much more precise. It is ideal for brewing and is extremely easy to use. Just drop some wort or beer on the lense and gaze through the eye p… |
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Beer Wort and Wine Refractometer, Dual Scale – Specific Gravity and Brix, replaces homebrew hydrometer $49.99 This refractometer is for measuring the sugar content of beer and includes an automatic temperature compensation of 10 – 30 degree Celsius. This refractometer can replace your hydrometer for easier and more accurate measurements. Simply use the dropper to take a sample of wort and put it on the prism. Then hold the refractometer up to the light and look through the eyepiece. Due to the dual scale … |
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Hydrometer – Triple Scale $1.11 Triple Scale Hydrometer… |
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Residual Sugar Test Kit $28.99 The ACCUVIN Residual Sugar Kit tests only for fructose and glucose sugars, the sugars reduced in primary fermentation. Reducing sugars in wine consist of hexoses (mainly glucose and fructose) and pentoses (mainly arabinose and xylose). The pentoses are not fermentable by wine yeasts. Since pentoses alone can vary from 0.4 to 2.0 g/L, the best measure of primary fermentation is the determination of… |
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The Hydrometer Code $9.99 Son of a brewer in 18th century England, John Beavershaft aims to be a leader in brewing science by pioneering the use of the new instrument, the hydrometer. He is led into a marriage with a former actress placed by a pair of schemers who aim to take control of his father’s brewery. At the same time he is busy using their capital to expand the brewery, using his own ideas and plans for novel equip… |
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The Beer Lover’s Guide to Beer Books: A Bibliography of Brewers, Brewing, Pubs, and Other Beer Related Subjects, Published in Books and Pamphlets and Printed in English Over the Last 550 Years or So. $14.95 A brand new reference for reading about beer, its history, its ingredients,what the different styles are, how and why it tastes the way it does, how it is made, where it is made, the brewers who have made ot, even how to make it yourself, and how and where it can be enjoyed…. |
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Philatelic Side Lines: Hydrometer Labels, Lock Seals, Beer Stamps, Cigarette Stamps, Customs Cigarettes, Small Cigar Stamps, Small Snuff Stamps, … Of The French Post Office, French Colonial… $10.62 This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the… |