Here at SouthYeasters, a big part of our aim is to help people start and perfect homebrewing. If you take nothing else from this page, please contact us and ask any questions you have. We are all passionate and willing to help and share advice.

So where to start;

1. Read a book - we recommend "How to Brew" by John Palmer. The first edition is available online for FREE (www.howtobrew.com). The 4th, expanded edition was released recently and while it covers a lot more topics, these basics are unchanged.

2. Attend a homebrew meeting - Check out our events and come along and ask questions.

3. Choose a type of brewing - Extract, Partial Mash or All Grain.

4. Maybe do a course - in Cape Town, currently BeerGuevara and Beerlab offer courses. (We believe there are more options coming soon as well - please let us know)