Foundation Beer Ingredient Kit Instructions

If you're looking for the best, effortless beer ingredient kit, we recommend the FOUNDATION BEER KITS. We have spent years perfecting these kits to ensure you have a successful brew producing impressive results

FOUNDATION BEER KITS are perfect for beginners. With easy-to-follow steps in brewing fundamentals. You will make the wort, add bittering extract and flavouring hops and pitch yeast for fermentation. All while practising temperature control and good sanitation. These are all skills needed to become a master brewer.

Even though these are beginner-friendly kits, seasoned brewers enjoy the simplicity that these kits bring. Brewing consistent, great-tasting beer, at a fraction of the cost of store-bought brews. In fact, this premium quality beer kit will cost approximately 60p per pint! You can't beat that.

What does a Foundation Beer Ingredient Kit Contain?

- GEB Liquid Malt Extract - All the Geterbrewed kits contain the finest liquid malt. This is wort that has been concentrated and needs rehydrating to be able to start fermentation

- Isomerised Hop Extract - Fine-tuning the bitterness level of the beer

- Hop Pellets in innovative tea bags - Maximum flavour & aroma from the world’s best hop merchants

- Brewers Yeast Strains - always premium quality to ensure successful fermentations

What is a good beer-making ingredient kit?

All our GET ER BREWED Beer Kits have been designed to create the best possible beer using the finest ingredients. Drawing on our wealth of experience as brewers and industry contacts, we have put together industry-leading beer kits that deliver consistently impressive results.

What ingredients do you need to make great beer?

The four main ingredients are: Water, Malt, Hops & Yeast

(1) Water - get to know your brewing water to get the best out of your brew.

(2) Malt - GET ER BREWED have the best malt available to homebrewers. in multiple different varieties. All malt kits make top-quality brews.

(3) Hops - The freshest hop pellets, professionally packaged in resealable hop packs and made into easy to use hop tea bags.

(4) Yeast - Professional brewers strains of yeast known technically as saccharomyces cerevisiae is responsible for turning the fermentable sugars into alcohol.

We commonly get asked are beer making kits safe?

The simple answer is yes. Modern beer making ingredient kits make it easier and safer than ever to successfully make amazing quality beer to enjoy at home, as long as you follow some basic principles.

We recommend you follow the SIT Principle.

(S) Sterilisation - If you take a scientific approach to ensure everything is clean and sterile you create the perfect environment for a healthy fermentation

( I ) Information - Follow the step by step instructions we provide with each kit.

(T) Temperature - Fermentation temperature is critically important, aim to have a consistent temperature without large fluctuations, if you need a fermentation chamber to control the temperature

What brewing equipment is needed?

These kits have been designed to use very basic equipment. A brewing vessel and a few brewing essentials is all you need:

- 33 Litre graduated GEB fermenter, with tap and airlock

- Beer Spoon or paddle

- Hydrometer

- Thermometer

- Steriliser

- Bottles, caps and a capper

We have a few beginner equipment kits available to get you brewing in no time. /beginner-brewing-start...

These kits can easily be added to, keeping you going through your brewing journey.

Instructions

Good sanitation of all equipment is essential before you begin. Have your fermenter set up with the tap closed and ready for the addition of water and ingredients.
Place the Liquid Malt containers into a basin of hot water. This helps to soften the content, allowing it to easily pour into the fermenter.
Add a kettle of boiling water (approximately 3 litres) to your fermenter. Open and pour the contents of the liquid malt into the fermenter. Give a really good stir. Rinse out the Liquid Malt containers with hot water and pour into the fermenter. If any additional sugars come with your kit, dissolve it in hot water and add it to your fermenter.
Add cold water to your fermenter until approximately the 17 to 20 litre gradation mark. Check your temperature reading and add hot water up to 20 to 25 litres. This stage allows you to achieve your desired temperature range of 18-22 degrees. A constant temperature during fermentation is important, you do not want large fluctuation in temperature.
Add your isomerised hop solution, this adds the hop bitterness to your malt extract.
Aerate the wort with a really good stirring. This allows the wort to oxygenate, ensuring the yeast works their best. Stirring vigorously for 2 minutes should suffice.
Take a hydrometer reading, note the starting gravity and keep a record of it. This allows you to monitor when your brew will be ready.
Pitch the yeast. Ensure that the yeast packet and scissors are sterilised. A spray bottle with no rinse steriliser is perfect for this job. Allow the spray solution some contact time to ensure it is clean. Now just sprinkle the yeast on top the wort.
Put the lid onto your fermenter and place it where it is going to ferment. Remember to give it a spray down with a steriliser.
Attach a heat belt if necessary to maintain temperature. Best to keep the brew out of direct sunlight.
Place your airlock into the fermenter lid and half fill with water. This allows the gases given off by the yeast to escape, but protects the wort from air getting in and spoiling your brew.
Allow the yeast to work by monitoring the activity in the airlock. If it’s bubbling, you have active fermentation. When it stops bubbling that's an indication it is nearing completion and you tap off a sample to take a gravity reading.
Fermentation times vary with different yeast strains and the temperature that they are fermented, but 10 days would be an average time period.
Add the hops tea bags after 10 days and following checking of your gravity reading 1.015 or below, the hops are added by placing the innovative hop tea bags into a cup of boiling water and allow them to soak for a few minutes then add the contents of the cup including the tea bags to your fermenter. Ensure the lid is sealed correctly and the airlock is half full of water to protect the brew.
Hop additions add a delicious aroma to your beer and are best added late in fermentation, so allow them to soak in the fermenter for 2-3 days, check the gravity reading and if it remains constant for 3 days then proceed to bottling.

BOTTLING BASICS

Bottling is relatively easy. Start with enough bottles and caps for your brew. Have a few extras ready just in case.

Clean and sterilise your bottles and caps with a no-rinse steriliser (even if they are new bottles)
Add the correct amount for priming sugar or carbonation drops into your bottles. (about a level teaspoon per 500ml bottle)
Fill your bottles preferably with a filler stick, to avoid oxygen getting into your brew. Be mindful of the yeast and hops at the bottom of your fermenter, avoid getting this in your bottles
Cap with a new cap and capper
Leave in a warm place for about a week, then in a cool place for about 2 weeks. This allows for secondary fermentation and carbonation to take place.

Foundation Beer Ingredient Kit Instructions