Advice and tips on homebrewing
Tweak your Fresh Wort Kit: fruit, oak, yeast and hops
A Fresh Wort Kit is a good starting point for your own variations: different yeast, fruit purée, oak soaked in whisky or aquavit, and dry hops. Here are the doses, the timing and the kits that suit it best.
Bedsit lager: brew your own beer in the space of a bucket
With a Fresh Wort Kit, all you need to brew 20 litres of beer is a fermenting bucket that fits in a wardrobe. Here is the equipment, the method and how much space it takes.
LalBrew NovaLager – brew clean lager and pilsner at ale temperature
LalBrew NovaLager is a hybrid lager yeast that gives clean pilsner and lager at around 18°C instead of 10–12°C. Here are the yeast's properties and the beer kits tailored to it.
Brew your own beer at home – our most popular Fresh Wort Kits
A Fresh Wort Kit is ready-boiled and hopped wort, so you skip the mashing and boiling and simply add yeast. Here is the method and our most popular kits.
Brew gluten-reduced beer with Fresh Wort Kit and Clarity Ferm
Clarity Ferm added together with the yeast can reduce the gluten content of beer brewed with barley and wheat. Here is how to use it with a Fresh Wort Kit, and which kits suit it best.
Temperature control during fermentation – crucial also when you brew with Fresh Wort Kits
A Fresh Wort Kit lets you skip straight to fermentation, but that is exactly where temperature decides the flavour. We go through a fridge with an Inkbird, the Fercubator and glycol chillers, and how to cold crash.
Fresh Wort Kits – why you should choose 20L over 15L
A 15 litre fresh wort kit has to be diluted with water at home, while a 20 litre kit is finished wort ready to ferment. Here is why water chemistry makes the difference.
Brewing beer with a Fresh Wort Kit
A Fresh Wort Kit is 20 litres of ready-brewed wort that should not be mixed with water. Here is the equipment you need and the process from fermentation to bottles or keg.