Step by Step Beer Making

You can make your own beer at home.

Beer of a fairly high quality can be manufactured at home with the right equipment and ingredients. The same techniques that large breweries use can be replicated on smaller scale. This affords an advantage to the average beer consumer, who wishes to drink good beer, but does not want to spend a lot of money. An initial investment in the purchase of new equipment can enable you to reap the benefits of cheap beer for years to come.

Things You'll Need

• 10 gallon food safe pail
• Lid
• Vinyl siphon hose
• Hose clamp
• 12 two liter polycarbonate bottles
• Hydrometer
• Large stock pot
• Malt extract
• 1 teaspoon yeast
• StarSan
• Cold water
• Thermometer
• 6 cups sugar

Instructions

1. Sanitize all of the equipment using StarSan.

2. Add 10 liters of cold water (about 11 degrees Celsius) to the 10 gallon pail, and boil 7 liters of water in the stock pot.

3. Add a can of malt and 6 cups of sugar to the stock pot.

4. Empty the contents of the stock pot into the pail.

5. Add more water to the pail until the temperature of its contents matches the room's temperature on the thermometer's readings, then add the yeast and top the pail with the lid.

6. Test the beer after one week with the hydrometer. It will be ready to bottle when it reads 1.10.

References

• Eartheasy.com: Simplest Homemade Beer - Eartheasy.com Solutions for Sustainable Living