Beginner Beer Recipes

Are you just getting into the wide and wonderful world of home beer brewing?

If so, here are two quick and easy recipes that are perfect for the home brewing beginner. Keep in mind that after you’ve finished your batch you’ll want to think about where the beer is going (maybe you’ve got plans to share it at a wedding, birthday party or holiday get together), and how you want to brand it. Labels on the Fly offers a wide selection of expertly designed, professionally styled custom beer labels.

Ginger Beer

Take forty quarts of water, thirteen pounds sugar, twelve good lemons, or a proportional quantity of lime juice, eight ounces of bruised ginger, and the whites of six eggs, well beaten; mix all together, skimming it before it begins to boil, and boil it for twenty minutes; add an ounce of isingglass, and a spoonful of balm, after it is put into the cask, stir it well; it will be ready for bottling in ten days.

Wine from Cider

Add to a barrel of cider from the press, honey sufficient to bear up an egg; work all of the filth out of the bung hole, by keeping the barrel full; in about five weeks, draw off the pure liquor into a tub, and put the whites of eight eggs, well beaten up with a pint of clean sand into a tub; then add one gallon of cider spirits, and mix the whole together; and having cleansed the barrel, return the liquor into it, bung it tight, and when fine, rack it off into kegs for use.

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