How to Make a Light Beer Home Brew

Learn how to home brew beer. It is relatively easy, once you have the proper supplies and ingredients. Each time beer is brewed, tweak the recipe or ingredients used to accommodate personal tastes. Follow the steps below, making sure to use a light-colored malt for a light beer.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Large cooking pot
• 6-gallon plastic bucket
• Rubber stopper with hole that fits in the bucket lid hole
• Plastic airlock for rubber stopper hole
• Bleach
• 6 pounds of dry malt extract
• 4 ounces of pellet hops
• 1 package of brewing yeast
• 6 gallons of water

1. Begin by sterilizing the bucket and lid, stopper and airlock in boiling water and 1 ounce of bleach. Drain the mixture into the sink over the lid, and rinse well with water until no smell of bleach can be detected. Do not use too much bleach or leave any bleach residue in the bucket or lid.

2. Boil 3 1/2 gallons of water. Put the other 2 1/2 gallons in the refrigerator to chill.

3. Add 6 pounds of a light-colored malt extract to the boiling water. Once the mixture begins to boil again, add 2 ounces of pellet hops. Let it boil rapidly for 45 minutes.

4. Add last two ounces of pellet hops, and boil for 15 more minutes. Then remove from heat.

5. Place the pot in the sink, and run cold water around it.

6. Pour the 2 1/2 gallons of water from the refrigerator into the bucket.

7. Mix the malt and hop mixture into the cold water in the bucket. Add the package of brewing yeast and stir. Put the lid on the bucket, making sure it is sealed tightly. Fill the airlock about 3/4 full with water. Let it sit about two weeks before bottling.

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on 11/7/2007 What kind of beer is this? You don't specify what type of hops or type of yeast. Depending on the alpha acids in the hops, you could be making a very sweet tasting beer or a very bitter tasting beer. And not all hops should be used for finishing hops (in step four). Some are intended for bittering. Some are intended for flavor. Some are intended for aroma.

The yeast you choose makes a big difference too! Each different strain overs different flavors and aromas. Many have different alcohol tolerences. Some work at different temperatures.

You don't boil plastic equipment and you don't sanitize them with bleach. There are sanitizing agents designed for brewing beer.

This piece looks like a cheap summerization of someone else's cheap summerization of an article on brewing beer.