How do you make homemade beer?!
How do you make homemade beer?
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http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/...
He makes it look easy!
beer me!!
I tried homemade beer exactly once. The guy who made it had all the right equipment and considered himself a great artist. It tasted awful and I said so. He said "Do you want it to taste like Budweiser?" I allowed that I did.
I think you have to have a kit. But Ive seen an episode on Food Network. Try food network.com. And go to the "Good Eats" and search it there. Alton Brown has a recipe in there
Buy a homebrew kit and read the instructions. The only extras you'll need are sugar and a clean plastic container that can hold about 20 litres. Cleanliness is important. So is keeping the air out and keeping the temperature between about 20 and 40 Celsius (70 and 104 Fahrenheit). It's possible to stuff up your first brew; the most likely way is if the vinegar bug gets in from the atmosphere, so be prepared to try again. And get some books from the library about the theory and history of brewing. You'll soon become skilful enough to make your own beer out of raw ingredients like barley, hops, yeast and sugar. There's a book, whose title I've forgotten, which tells you how to make beers just like bought ones, so you can make Guinness, Heineken and Carlsberg that would fool an expert. Really good beers need good chemistry. Breweries employ chemists with PhDs to check that the trace elements in the water are right, the barley and hops come from the right places and the strain of yeast is correct. But you can make acceptable beer without this level of expertise.
When most people first start homebrewing, they doi what is known as 'extract brewing.' It's a simpler method than 'all grain brewing.'
Extract brewing consists of making a tea using specialty grains, which give the beer its flavor and color. With the tea, you add the malt extract and boil it for an hour or so. The extract provides the fermentable sugars and sweetness in the beer.
Hops are added at different intervals. They contribute bitterness (to counter the malt's sweetness), flavor and aroma.
When you are done, you have wort (rhymes with hurt). This is unfermented beer. You cool the wort down and introduce air to it. You place it in a fermenter (either a bucket or a carboy) and add the yeast. After a week, you tranfer the beer into a secondary vessel. This allows the batch to finish fermenting and gets it off the sediment.
After a few more weeks, you transfer it into a bottling bucket. You add priming sugar to the batch and bottle it. The yeast will eat this priming sugar and carbonate the beer.
A good book to pick up is the 'New Complete Joy of Homebrewing' by Charlie Parpazian.
Visit http://www.beertown.org to find homebrew shops and homebrewing clubs in your area.
Stay away from Mister Beer kits, and Beer Machine kits; they make inferior beer.