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Also free as in beer.
Sadly there's no beer in it however
That's probably for the better.
You can look up beer recipes and buy equipment and ingredients from it though. And use web based or spreadsheet calculators on it to do beer related calculations
That beer is also not free, but assuming you make beer for a long time the price per pint (half litre to split the difference between UK and US pints) tends toward about 20c (though highly hopped beers like hazy pale ale can get towards a dollar a pint) which is pretty cheap
But not free as in Murica.
You could get Ubuntu in a free like America style
But in America, Freedom isn't free.
Buck'o'five.
Canonical will sell you an Ubuntu