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Wow it has been a while since I have posted… an in that time I’ve been coding, building a house and brewing some beer For a first time brewer i’ve posted up the basic steps required to get started as it had been a little difficult to find just simple pics and descriptions when I started.

This is how you start out with the fermenter ready to go and sanitized! I can not stress this enough SANITISE EVERYTHING that will come in contact with the mix.

And your basic ingredients… time, dextrose, yeast and the magic mix (which you can also make yourself). You may notice the pager so yes I was on call and since I can’t drink on call it was the perfect time to brew. This time I am brewing Ginger Beer which should be nice on a hot sunny day.

This is the mix which you heat up in some hot water before hand then mix with hot water to make it dissolve.

At this stage you have a couple litres of hot liquid you start to mix in your dextrose. Make sure you thoroughly mix this through.

Now at this stage you are basically filling it up till your defined level which in my case was 23L. Make sure if you can to use filtered or boiled (and cooled) water.

And now your done you seal it up put water in your air lock (filtered) and then let her sit for a week. I would suggest somewhere that doesn’t get too hot as you want it to stay within your temperature range as much as possible.

I’ll do up a post when I am bottling it which should be in a few days hopefully. Next batch will be a keg