
Explore the balance of water, barley, and hops in craft brewing and compare craft versus commercial beer to guide your home brewing decisions.
Explore how Black Rock home brewing uses a concentrated base rehydrated with water to produce brewery-grade beer at home, with customizable hops and dry hopping.
Learn to brew your own beer by following instructions for a 23-liter batch of concentrated wort, selecting hardware from homebrew shops, and sanitizing, bottling, or kegging your beer.
Clean and sanitize beer brewing equipment using a detergent or caustic cleaner. Wipe with a non-scratch microfiber cloth, then sanitize surfaces in 65-70 degree water.
Learn to brew your own beer by mastering fermentation with yeast and hops, practicing rigorous sanitation, and controlling temperature and airlock activity for a healthy batch.
apply a silicon dioxide clarification agent (finings such as isinglass or gelatin) to beer, chill to 3 degrees, dose 30 ml per 23 liters, and let solids settle.
Learn bottling and bottle finishing for home brewing, using sanitized bottles, carbonation drops, and a filling tube to manage secondary fermentation and proper maturation.
Measure specific gravity at the start and end of fermentation to gauge dissolved sugars and potential alcohol, using a hydrometer and temperature corrections for accurate results.
Learn to dry hop in late fermentation with hops pellets, about 3 g per liter for a 20 liter batch, using a hop cage to infuse aroma.
Learn the fundamentals of home kegging, including keg components, cleaning and sanitizing, carbonation and dispensing with CO2 regulators, and options from basic to beer fridge setups.
Learn how to clean and sanitize kegs for kegging, using boiling water and sanitizers, ensuring proper closures, CO2 safety, ventilation, and thorough surface contact.
Learn to transfer cold beer from the fermenter to a keg with minimal oxygen exposure by purging with CO2, sanitizing gear, and keeping the beer under pressure for clarity.
Learn to carbonate beer by purging oxygen with CO2, switching to the top purge, and using the regulator to set pressures at 15 psi.
Learn how to transfer carbonated beer between kegs under CO2 pressure, equalize pressures, purge oxygen, and maintain sanitation to preserve flavor and carbonation.
Learn to brew beer and cider with Black Rock kits and recipes, from fermentation basics to flexible flavor options like sugar, hops, and extracts, including kegging and bottle finishing.
Discover how to choose affordable home fermentation vessels, keep them clean, and master temperature control and carbonation using practical gear like plastic buckets, cornie kegs, and simple cooling options.
Learn to craft a personalized beer using unhopped wort concentrates and partial mash methods, choosing from various kits to control color, flavor, and a quality base.
Learn partial mashing and temperature-controlled brewing to craft an American hi-lo beer, guiding you through mashing, sparging, hops timing, boiling, whirlpool, immersion chilling, and sanitary transfer to fermentation.
Learn to craft beer at home with Black Rock, exploring ingredients like mosaic and Eldorado hops and even mango flavors, while scaling from starter kits to more complex brews.
We show you how to brew your own beer with simple ingredients and inexpensive equipment. We use Black Rock's Concentrated Wort, but you can do it with any concentrated wort you can buy at your local brew shop or online.
Brewing Beer
Did you know that the best beer is fresh beer?
Most of what you buy and drink at the store or your local brewery is already past its "best to consume date". It is like buying old stale bread. You can eat it, but it isn't terrific?
Did you know that 75 cents in every dollar you pay for beer or cider has nothing to do with the product and everything to do with taxes, levies, distribution and packaging? You think you are buying beer, but the fact is that you are purchasing the right to buy beer. Someone took your beer right out of your mouth!
Did you know that it is as easy to brew beer as it is to grill a sausage or make a cup of tea? Your local brewer doesn't want you to know that! Your government is likely of the same conviction. If you knew how easy it is to make your own good beer, chances are you would already be doing it, and you will be skipping the fees, levies and taxes.
Brewing Your Beer
Here is the payoff. You can make your own beer and cider at home, with simple equipment that you can buy at the local hardware store and ingredients you can get over the internet - the best ingredients in the world!
We guarantee that your beer and cider will taste better than what you can buy at the store or your local craft brewery? If you brew your own beer, not only will it be fresh, taste better and cost you significantly less, it will also make you more popular, better looking, a nicer person, richer, etc....
You get the picture ;-)
For the price of a beer, we will show you how to do it with Black Rock Home Brewing's ingredients. It is the best brewing ingredients in the world! But hey, you can use anyone else ingredients too if you know what you are doing. Let's help you to know what you are doing and welcome to the world of brewing your own beer!
Welcome to our world of beer!
The Two Cowboys, and Fellow Beer Lovers.