Beer making kits and winekits, turbo yeast ( turbogjær, turbohefe) and beer (beerkits) are our specialities. Alcotec Super Yeast is our main turboyeast brand (Alcotec 24 - the 24 hour turboyeast, Alcotec 48 - the high alcohol one and several others). We manufacture the Grand Superior and the House of Hambleton winekits, Cantina 5-day, Bards Blends and several others - we are the leading European homebrew supplier. We also supply essences as well as activated carbon and many other products for home distilling. And if you want to know how to make moonshine alcohol or all about wash fermentation - look no further, on our website you will find all the info you need.. |
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Beer making kits - CO2 - Carbonising |
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Homebrewing of beer kits is much like homebrewing of wine kits using malt and hops instead of grape juice - with the main difference that you want the end result to be fizzy. The natural way of achieving this is similar to the natural way Champagne is made: 1. First ferment your beer (or your sparkling wine to be) to normal strength and let the fermentation cease naturally - do not add any preservatives or stabilisers. 2. Bottle your beer or wine or use a barrel like our BeerSphere (see picture), add a little priming sugar and seal your bottles (or barrel). You must use tight seals like crown corks or champagne wine corks. 3. Wait a week or so. During this time your homebrewed beer or wine will go through a secondary fermentation (because you added more sugar = food for the yeast) and since the CO2 gas can not escape anywhere your beer will end up carbonated. |
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Although some commercial beer is brewed this way - the Trappistenbier from Belgium is a famous example - most aren't. The procedure is too expensive and there are some problems. Firstly, since the natural method means using yeast to produce the CO2, there will be a sediment in the bottles. Secondly, there will also be proteins present and they can make your beer cloudy when you chill it. Thirdly, it is difficult to achieve very "gassy" beers this way. The industrial way of carbonising beer is by simply adding CO2 gas after the beer fermentation is done. This means that the beer can be filtered after fermentation to take out all yeast and proteins (since you have no secondary fermentation, you don't need to "save" any yeast). At Hambleton Bard, we are specialists in producing high quality wine making kits, beerkits, high alcohol kits and turbo yeast. We are experts in the field of home distilling of moonshine alcohol. We are proud to have been in business for more than 30 years. The company is currently growing mainly on export markets and we always welcome new export enquiries. Check out our homebrew news page for the latest additions to our range of homebrew products. |
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