Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider

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A community dedicated to homebrewing beer, mead, wine, cider and everything in between. If it ferments, bring it over here.

Share recipes, ideas, ask for feedback or just advice.

Some starting points for beginners:

Introduction to Beer Brewing

A basic mead primer

Quick and diry guide to fermenting fruit - cider and wine

Brewing software

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Where should I start? Absolute newb with a kit (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz

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I've never tried my own home brew before and I've been sitting on two kits for years now (got them sitting the pandemic but never found the time) and I wanted to try to start something

The original juice and hops are probably toast by now so I'll have to purchase some new, but I've got two of those jugs and the other bits that come with them.

I also have a small orchard in my back yard and wanted to try to use the thousands of plums in get every year to make some kind of lambic ale.

Any advice is appreciated!

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[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In my experience, keeping your equipment clean and sanitized is the most important step.

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 4 points 1 week ago

Sanitation
Oxidisation

The two major things to tackle. My advice would be to just start making beer. The more you make, the better you will get at it. Join a forum to get advice. Don't be put off if it doesn't come out right at first.