Expert: Spencer W Thomas - 1/14/2007

Question
My name is Todd and I am from Ontario,Canada. A friend and I have just recently heard about this home brewing, and have become very interested in it. The problem is we really don't know anything about this topic. We have searched over the Internet trying to find wed pages but all we turn up are people throwing words at us that really we don't understand. We are looking to find a understandable free guide an average guy like myself could understand. We are not really interested in just buying an instrument from a homebrewing supply store also because we don't know of any in our area. I am also the kind of person that likes to take the hands on approach. I am asking you this as you seem to have lots of experience. So do you know of any web sites with easily understandable instructions or perhaps you could elaborate.

Answer
The best online guide that I've found is John Palmer's online book How To Brew at http://howtobrew.com/

The other thing you could do is to look for a local homebrew store and/or homebrew club.  There you'll find people who can guide you through your first brew and give you pointers on improving it.  Not to mention people who can give you samples of their own homebrew.

The system tells me I've delayed answering your question, apparently because I never received the original email from AllExperts.  My apology for the delay.