BEER

[dandandan 0]

I wanna brew some, and not from one of those "brew your own" kits. anyone know anything about it?

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[billvon 3,117]

How "do it yourself" do you wanna get?

The most do-it-yourself way:

Get some barley. Sprout it. Dry the sprouts; now you have malt. Crush them and separate the husks. Take the powder and mix it with warm water. The natural enzymes in the sprouts break down the starches to sugars. Strain the resulting mixture to remove solids (this is called lautering.) Now you have wort, which is a sweetish liquid.

Now boil it to deactivate the enzymes and kill any volunteer yeast. Might want to add hops or other flavorings here, or sugar if you want more alcohol. Next, put it in a fermenter (can be a plastic pail with a cover to keep air out and a balloon to release CO2) and add brewer's yeast. Let it ferment for a while, a few weeks or so.

At this point you have beer. You can let it sit for a while (conditioning) or filter it and bottle it right away. It will be pretty flat without a pressure retaining conditioning tank, provision for later carbonation or bottle conditioning.

[LongWayToFall 0]

Go to a brew store. They aren't like the supermarket kind of beer kits. If you have never brewed before, that is the way to go. Even if you plan on going into huge scale production, you still need to try small batches to perfect your recipes. 5gal batches can taste just as good as any out there. Start with extract because its easy, then get up to full grain brewing. But like I said, go to a brew store, they will tell you everything you need to know, besides you need a source for your grains anyways.

[BIGUN 1,486]

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