A practical guide to cleaning and sanitising fermenters, bottles, brewing systems, beer lines and home-brew equipment.
Category Archives: Other Brewing / Making
A straightforward guide to choosing a mead kit, yeast, nutrient and equipment for your first batch.
Choose a kegerator, kegs and the gas-side parts you need for a practical home draught setup.
A practical guide to choosing and using hydrometers and refractometers for beer, wine, cider, mead and spirit washes.
The original Still Spirits Air Still can use water distillation to capture aromatic hydrosol and a small quantity of essential oil from suitable plant material. The hydrosol is normally the main output; essential-oil yield can be very low and varies greatly by plant, freshness, preparation and season. This guide is for the original Air Still. […]
The original Still Spirits Air Still can distil small batches of potable water without a separate cooling-water connection. This guide is for the original Air Still head and boiler. If you have an Air Still Pro or another still, use that model’s own water-distillation instructions. Before you begin How to distil water with the original […]