Making Your Own Beer .
With the help of home beer making made easier, lots of people are jumping on the band wagon and either as a hobby, or indeed to save on money, home beer making is increasing in popularity.
Local brew shops and a number of supermarkets now stock home beer making kits to make things even easier! With that said, brewing beer is a easy process, requiring only a few utensils, and can easily be made from scratch.
Before you begin your home brewing it is essential that all utensils are sanitized properly. Bacteria can grow quickly even though beer is ‘live’ from the yeast and this can result in terrible tasting beer.
To brew your own beer from scratch it is essential to use fresh ingredients. These can easily be bought from your local brew shop and will make a substantial difference to the final taste of your home brew.
Once you have all your ingredients and have sanitized your utensils, then by following the instructions below, you will be well on your way to making your own home brew.
1. Steep your grains in a large pot with at least three gallons of hot water, for around thirty minutes or so.
2. To make the ‘wort’, boil for a further thirty minutes with added malt hops/extract.
3. After boiling the ‘wort’, transfer the pot into a tub or sink filled with ice cold water. It is essential you do not mix this water with the ‘wort’, so please be careful.
4. Your cooled’ wort’ should now be put into your formentor for 2 weeks or so, in a cool, dark place.
5. The next step is to make a sugar priming solution and put this into your bottling bucket.
6. To remove the fermented ‘wort’, after 2 weeks, use a siphon, ensuring you leave the sediment at the bottom of the fermentor.
7. Pour into sanitized beer bottles and cap instantly.
8. Now place these filled bottles of beer in a cool, dark place for a further fourteen days.
Brewing your own beer takes around 6 hours: 4 hours or so for the brewing process, then a further two hours on bottling day. With the brewing process taking around 4 weeks, you will soon be able to sit back, relax and enjoy your very first home brew beer.
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