This is the category for everything home-brewed!
Here you’ll find every brewing recipe and article from The Alewyfe about making your own homebrewed beer, wine, mead, cider and other fermented beverages.
These beginner-friendly brewing recipes and more in-depth information that will get you brewing in no time flat (but your beer won’t be, if you follow along), or help you troubleshoot your brewing and bottling issues.
From simple out-of-the-box kit wines to wild-harvested country fruit wines, from easy all-extract beers to BIAB all-grain mash brews, from basic and fruit meads and wild-crafted herbal metheglins, you’ll find all sorts of inspiration in these brewing recipes and posts to help you create your own inspired, artistic brews.
So pop the cap on your favorite beverage, grab your mash paddles, clean out your kettles, freshen up your fermenters, air out your airlocks, and get ready to brew on, or just follow along with us as we learn, experiment, and explore the fun of homebrewing!
Dried elderberry wine is a fantastic beginner-friendly wine recipe to brew at home. It’s well-suited to small-batch brewing, or can be easily scaled up to larger batches. The ingredients are simple and easy to acquire, and the wine can be made in…
This homebrewed hawthorn wine finishes sweet and rosy hued, with the delicate spiced apple-like scent of hawthorn fruit. It’s sweet without being overly cloying, and lovely as a dessert wine, in a spritzer, or as a tonic cordial. Botanically, hawthorn “berries”, or…
A Simple Wild Berry Mead Recipe We could do without our evening beer or wine, but life is nicer with it, especially in these stressful times. And since once you have the equipment, ingredients are usually cheaper than buying your favorite tipple…
To wit, ’tis wit wort! We brewed up a winter wit beer recipe to celebrate New Year’s Eve at home, and usher out the old year while welcoming in the new. This homebrew was a partial decoction BIAB (brew-in-a-bag) mash recipe with…
Our first batch of homemade kit wine is in the bottles! It’s an inexpensive Washington State basic kit malbec (with a few off-label tweaks)… It definitely needs some time in the bottle to age, but so far, so good. It was my…
I walk through the garden in the gathering fall, and find a last blooming Ferdinand Pichard rose and hips, a few tarrying half-ripened blackberries, pelted with pellets of icy snow on a grey November day. Beauty lingering, clinging to green, a wintery…