Equipment Reviews

The best gifts for home brewers improve a part of brew day they already enjoy or find frustrating. A complete starter kit is useful for a newcomer, but an established…

Setting up a home brewery on a budget is mostly about resisting shiny kit. You need somewhere clean to work, one reliable fermenter, basic measuring tools, bottles, sanitiser and a…

You’ve just finished your first ever brew, the airlock has stopped bubbling, and now you’re staring at a glass tube floating in a jar of beer wondering what on earth…

You have just bottled your third batch of pale ale and something tastes wrong. Not infected-wrong, but a faint plasticky tang that was not there in the first two. You…

Compare hydrometers and refractometers for homebrewing: direct gravity readings, first-kit essentials and quick brew-day wort checks.

You pitched your yeast at the right temperature, left the fermenter in the spare room, and came back three days later to a beer that tastes like banana bread mixed…

You’ve just finished a 60-minute boil, you’ve hit your target gravity, and now you’re staring at 23 litres of near-boiling wort that needs to drop from 100°C to 20°C before…

How to take accurate gravity readings during fermentation, including hydrometers, refractometers, temperature correction, stable FG and ABV.

Compare plastic, glass and stainless-steel fermentation vessels for UK homebrew batches, from small demijohns to full-size fermenters.

Compare a 19L Corny keg vessel, a compact mini-keg kit and what a full kegging starter setup actually includes. Choose by batch size, gas and chilling needs.