A Beer Making Process So Simple That You Can Do It At Home

A Beer Making Process So Simple That You Can Do It At Home
By Alex
All around the world, people love their beer and are just as taken up with being able to brew beer at home and it is certainly one of the most popular of all hobbies, especially in countries such as England, and normally people generally will be able to easily brew about five gallons of beer at home, which works out to about two cases of bottled beers that is enough for their private needs. To get the best out of the beer making process, it would be ideal to use a kit that can do both the malt extraction as well as steeping the grains, while mashing the grains is something that only an advanced brewer is capable of doing.

Getting Started

No doubt, before getting started with the beer making process, you will need a kit and also know the basic instructions which include using clean as well as sanitized equipment, having a pot large enough to contain a couple of gallons of water and to also have a steeping bag that will contain grains. As for the actual beer making process, you must first of all put the grains in a steeping bag and tightly close it up and then place the bag into the pot and heat it till the temperature rises to 155 degrees and steep for half an hour.

Next, the beer making process involves removing the grain bag from out of the water and discarding it, while you need to then boil the rest of the water minus the grain bag. After the mixture has boiled, you can take

it off from the heat and then add hops directly, which will result in making the ‘wort’ as the mixture is known as. The next stage in the beer making process is simple and requires only that the wort is allowed to boil for three quarters of an hour and in the meantime you can add hops to give the beer its flavor and then boil the mixture some more for another fifteen minutes.

Now, you need to pour about three and a half gallons of cold water into a primary fermenter into which you can then add the wort and then seal it with an airlock as well as fill the airlock halfway with some water and let the wort cool till it is at about seventy-five degrees. Then, it is time to add the yeast, while also taking a hydrometer reading which can be achieved by removing a bit of the wort and testing it.

Finally, you can put the lid and airlock back on to the fermenter and let the fermenter do its job for anywhere from eight to forty-eight hours. In fact, it may take as many as five days for the fermentation process to stop and then you can test for specific gravity by using a hydrometer, after which it is time to add hops to give the beer its aroma. After conditioning the beer for a week to ten days, you can then pour the clear beer into sterilized beer bottles though before that, you need to dissolve five ounces of priming sugar that has been boiled and then cooled to room temperature.