Beer Homebrewing - An Intoxicating Hobby
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Beer homebrewing
Bored? Looking for a new hobby?
Try beer homebrewing.Apart from the heady feeling beer homebrewing offers a number of benefits.
Beer drinking at a moderate level is healthy and has been shown to prevent strokes and heart disease .
It is also a great way to beat stress.
Homebrewing is easy on your wallet.Apart from the start up the costs involved are very minimal.
With start up brew kits the whole process has been greatly simplified and with a little practice you can brew a drink as good if not better than your local pub.
.It allows people brewers to adjust the recipes to their own tastes.Few things can beat the pride and pleasure of enjoying your own homebrew beer.
Try beer homebrewing.Apart from the heady feeling beer homebrewing offers a number of benefits.
Beer drinking at a moderate level is healthy and has been shown to prevent strokes and heart disease .
It is also a great way to beat stress.
Homebrewing is easy on your wallet.Apart from the start up the costs involved are very minimal.
With start up brew kits the whole process has been greatly simplified and with a little practice you can brew a drink as good if not better than your local pub.
.It allows people brewers to adjust the recipes to their own tastes.Few things can beat the pride and pleasure of enjoying your own homebrew beer.
Beer homebrewing - ingredients
The basic ingredients for beer homebrewing are water, a starch source like malted barley,brewer"s yeast and hops.The yeast feeds on the starch fermenting it to produce carbon dioxide and alcohol.Hops are plant extracts added to induce bitterness and flavor to the brew. Beer homebrewing - techniques
There are two styles of beer homebrewing:extract brewing and all grain brewing.Extract brewing with the help of of beer kits is the easiest way to get started.All grain method needs more expertise and can be learnt at later stages if required .In the kit brew method the initial stages like mashing ,lautering etc are done by the brewery.The product known as wort is concentrated into a syrup or powder known as malt extract.Malt extract combined with hops and other flavors for a particular beer are what constitutes a beer kit.
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Beer homebrewing- equipment
Basic beer homebrewing equipment includes:# Instruction / guide book.
# Steel pot for boiling.
# Fermentation vessel of glass or food grade plastic.
# Fermentation lock to prevent air ingress and enable excess carbon dioxide to escape.
# Plastic tubing to siphon the beer.
# Bottles.
# Caps and bottle capper.
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Beer homebrewing - brewing procedure
The procedure in brief involves boiling the malt extract after adding water forming what is knowing as the wort.The wort is cooled and diluted in a fermentation vessel.The yeast is then pitched in and the vessel sealed for 7-10 days.The beer is then siphoned off,primed and sealed into bottles.Priming causes it to carbonate which gives the beer the fizz .Wait for another 2-3 weeksCall your beer buddies and celebrate.
Cheers! You are well on your way to becoming a master brewmaster.
by beerbrewer
"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy"-Benjamin Franklin .Hi,i am a hard core beer enthusiast. I started home brewing beer in 2008... more »
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