Homemade Beer Recipes Made Easy and Fast on a Budget of less than $30 Bucks

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Making Beer is just like home cooking. Each recipe requires a different ingredients and techniques. This page is an attempt to go over the basics of homebrewing in order to give you an understanding of how beer is made. First of all, beer is made from 5 basic ingredients: water, malt , hops, yeast and the only limitation is your imagination for flavor. Water is the most abundant ingredient in any style of beer and is the staple of life. When making beer at home try to use filtered water instead of plain tap water. If your tap water taste like crap , you probably won't like it in your beer either. Do not use distilled water because it has been depleted of its oxygen. Malted barley is barley grain that has been carefully soaked in water until it sprouts and then dried. This malting process develops the necessary sugars and soluble starches needed for fermentation. The malt is then taken through a process called mashing which extracts the sugars and starches from the grain. Although advanced homebrewers can accomplish this step at home, most will buy the malted barley already mashed in a product called malt extract. Hops are green flowers that grow on a vine and look similar to pine cones.They perform several roles in the beer making process. Most notably are the taste and aroma they impart on a beer. Since not all of the sugars will ferment, the malt will cause the beer to be really sweet. Hops will balance out the sweetness by adding a degree of bitterness. Hops will also add a distinctive aroma to the finished brew. Yeast is the main catalyst that makes it all happen. In short, yeast is a living organism that feeds off of the sugars in the malt. The yeast will convert the sugars to alcohol and carbon dioxide in a process called fermentation. There are many strains of yeasts . In order to get the results needed for making beer, a specially cultured beer yeast is required. The yeast will also impart taste and mouth to taste qualities of the beer.

The Beer Making Process is Simple

Lets summarize the basics, malt, hops, and water are boiled for a period of time. This mixture is called wort. Then the wort is poured into fermenter and allowed to cool. Next, the prepared yeast is pitched into the fermenter and an airlock is placed over the opening. Now it's the yeast's will do its job. The yeast will multiply like crazy as it consumes the sugars in the brew. After a period of time, usually within 6 to 11 days, the yeast will have consumed all that it can and fall to the bottom of the fermenter. Finally, the beer is bottled and set aside for at least two weeks to mature and carbonate.

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