Suggestions When At Bottling Stage Of Your Home Brewing Hobby After fermenting, perhaps the bottling stage can be considered as a tedious activity. There is more to bottling than what you are currently thinking. There is a science in bottling your precious brews as well, and it is important that you are aware of the right way for bottling. Home brewing was most popular in England during that era, largely because it's customary for feudal manors to make sure that beer is available for consumption for the lords and their subjects. In America, the most influential people who took up home brewing were George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The act of brewing your own beer also gives you that mad scientist fulfillment (or at least for me), not to mention the satisfaction that you feel every time your beer-guzzling friends rave about your concoction. Better Quality For Your Beer Home brewed beer, unlike commercial beers, doesn't have cheap additives. Now there are two types of locks that you can use. The first one is called the air lock type one, and the second is the type 2 air lock. The brew kettle. This is an important addition to your growing list of home brewing equipments. When shopping, make sure that the kettle that you will get should be at least 16 quarts. Depending on the coverage of the guide, it could serve to provide the necessary information to create brew according to a recipe, provide recipes, or the combination of both. A guide may also detail the different processes of creating the most common brews prepared in non-commercial scales. For starters, a guide that covers all the basic information you need should do. [for further information and instruction regarding the yeast you may also refer to the labels on the packaging] 7. Cover the pail, place airlock in the hole of the cover of the pail. Fill this thing with half full of water and snap its cover on top. The airlock is a one way valve that releases the carbon dioxide produced during fermentation but prevents any air from entering the pail.