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!
If you aren’t pressing your own fruit, hard cider is one of the easiest ferments for beginners, or for quickly putting bottles in your cellar. How Do You Make Hard Cider? Sterilize the juice (or not) Add pectic enzyme and a bit…
Some snapshots from my weekend witch walks with the fellas in our local haunts… Foraging a fistful of yarrow, mugwort, bergamot, crabapples and hawthorn. I’m using these foraged treasures and brewing up some meads- the photos in this post are of a…
Beer? For breakfast? Sure, when it’s biertreberbrot (spent grain bread) toast with butter and bourbon brown sugar jam, bacon, and eggs (Also, it was lunch). And here are some highlights from my first brewday with the fella (and his first ever). Feels…
I gave myself a lot of gifts for this birthday (organization: my first full set of matching tupperware, metro shelves, and bins and baskets, etc) but the best and most important one- permission to brew again. I am always fermenting something, but…
Enough heavy stuff. Who wants candy! (all raise hands) Anti-Hero Caramels with Himalayan Pink Salt, to be exact… I take commissions. Bring me your favourite beer and I’ll make it into candy. Noms! Or, you know, we could just drink it. It’s…
So as usual, not all went according to plan in the artful brewing session, but all mostly went well… as always I owe S. infinite thanks for going along with my crazy ideas without too much protest… he did all the hard…