Home Brew Beer

Home brewing is the brewing of different forms of beers, wines and ciders, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, through fermentation on a small scale as a hobby for personal consumption, free distribution at social gatherings, amateur brewing competitions or other non-commercial reasons. This is not to be confused with the recent phenomenon of micro beweries, which although small in size, do produce for commercial purposes. Brewing on a domestic level has been done for thousands of years, but has been subject to regulation and prohibition. Restrictions on homebrewing were lifted in the UK in 1963, Australia followed suit in 1972, and the USA in 1978, though individual states were allowed to pass their own laws limiting production. While legality of homebrewing varies from country to country, most allow homebrewing, some countries limiting the volume brewed by an individual, and even fewer countries allowing distillation of hard alcohol. People homebrew for a variety of reasons. Homebrewing can be cheaper than buying commercially equivalent beverages; it can allow people to adjust recipes to their own

tastes (creating beverages that are unavailable on the open market, or low-ethanol beverages that may contain fewer calories and so are less fattening); or people may enjoy entering homebrew competitions. Sometimes referred to as "craft brewing", homebrewing has developed various homebrewing clubs and competitions. The Beer Judge Certification Program or BJCP is an American organization which sanctions beer, mead, and cider homebrew competitions, certifies judges, and offers categories for judging; these judging categories are called "Beer Style Guidelines" and are written by the BJCP Style Committee. Similar British organisations are The National Guild of Wine and Beer Judges, who have judging categories for both beer, and wine; and the National Association of Wine and Beermakers (Amateur) - (NAWB), who have held an annual show every year since 1959.

Beer Types

Home Brew Lager
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Guide to brewing beer
You may associate home-brew beer with something dodgy your granddad used to concoct in the garage, murky brown stuff that gave your family a terrible headache and didn't taste any better than it looked. Or possibly dodgy beer brewed in your university days. But don't let those early memories scare you. Read more on home brew guide .