Sydney Home Brew
Beer · Spirits · Wine · Cider

Fermentation gear for Sydney brewers

Everything for a batch of beer, a wash for the still, a demijohn of wine or a carton of cider — kits for a first brew, and the grain, hops and hardware for your fortieth. Browse the range here; buy it at thebrewshop.com.au.

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Browse the range here, buy at thebrewshop.com.au — our online store, where orders are picked, packed and shipped Australia-wide.

Home brewing on a Sydney kitchen bench

Your first batch, sorted

A starter kit is a fermenter, a way to measure what is happening inside it, something to sanitise it with, and enough malt for 23 litres. Pick the one that matches how far you want to take it.

Four things to make

Beer Making

Beer Making

Kit-and-kilo through to all-grain. Fresh wort for a clean, fast turnaround, hops kept cold and vacuum sealed, base and specialty malts, and the kegging hardware to finish a batch properly.

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Distilling

Distilling

Wash yeasts and nutrients, carbon and filtration, Air Still consumables, and the essence range for finishing a neutral spirit into something with a name.

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Winemaking

Winemaking

Acids, tannins, nutrients and fining agents for adjusting a must, and the carboys, hydrometers, refractometers and bottling gear to see it through.

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Cider

Cider

Pouches and kits that go from carton to glass in a fortnight, plus the cider yeasts, nutrients and enhancers to push a batch drier, cleaner or fruitier.

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Three stages, two weeks

1

Sanitise and pitch

Everything the wort touches after the boil gets sanitised. Fill the fermenter, bring the wort to pitching temperature, aerate, and add the yeast.

30–45 min · sanitiser contact time matters

2

Ferment and hold

The first 72 hours do the heavy lifting. Hold the temperature steady — swings cause more off-flavours in a Sydney summer than any other single mistake.

7–14 days · hold steady, ±1 °C

3

Package and condition

Bottle with priming sugar, or keg and force-carbonate. Bottles need two weeks warm to carbonate; a keg is drinkable the next day.

Bottles 2 weeks · keg 24 hours