Home Brewing Ingredients

Home Brewing ingredients include malted barley which is a starch source for fermenting into alcohol. A brewers yeast used for fermenting. Hops for flavouring and reducing the sweetness of the malt. Also maize and rice can be used as starch with additional sugar sweetening for some malted barleys. The main ingredient of beer is water but simply add the ingredients to produce beer. As the main ingredient, hard and soft water can be better for certain types of beers. Pilsen malt is best making pale lager with soft water and stout such as Guinness is best made in hard water areas.

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What are the 5 main ingredients in beer?

The main ingredients in Beer are Grains, Hops, Yeast and Water. These are the basic ingredients and are used universally to make a great beer. Often you will find that flavourings have been used as well as these. Choose your favourite flavour from our selection of home beer brewing kits.

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Youngs 60g Super Wine Yeast Compound

The 60g Super Wine Yeast Compound from Youngs contains Bentonite, wine yeast, yeast nutrient, vitamins and minerals which is a specially formulated recipe. This handy homebrewing tool can be used to make high-quality wines, speedy fermentation and...

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Youngs Sodium Metabisulphite 500grm

The 500g Sodium Metabisulphite is used before you start your homebrewing, it is used to clean and steralise all your equipment, this prevents from any bacteria forming or any impurities that would spoil the brew. Just add water to a small amount of...

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