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A Step-by-Step Guide to Make Beer at Home

Author: Taylor King
by Taylor King
Posted: Apr 13, 2015

The easiest way to how to brew beer at home step by step is shown below. All you need is the right equipment, the correct set of ingredients as well as a little bit of patience. So what are we waiting for? Let’s jump onto the steps of preparing beer at home.

Step 1: To prepare beer at home you require a brew pot, strainer, kitchen thermometer, rolling pin, large funnel, bottling container, a container of 3 gallons, polyvinyl tubes of 3 feet.

Step 2: You will require the following set of ingredients:

  • Malt extract – 3 pounds, dried
  • Crystal Malt – 8 ounce, crushed
  • Northern Brewer pellet hops – 1 ounce
  • Yeast – 1 pkt
  • Sugar – 3/8 cup

Step 3: Pour crystal malt in a large freezer bag. Crush the grain carefully using a rolling pin. Excessive crushing will turn the grain into flour.

Step 4: Steeping is the technique of extracting the good properties of crystal malt. You have to pour half a gallon of water and mark the level of water at 2 1/2. Add the remaining 2 ½ gallons of water into the brewing pot. Leave a space of about three inches at the top. Add the crushed grains into the pot. On a medium heat, boil till the temperature of the mixture reaches between up to 155 degrees. Remove the pot from the heat and cover for half an hour. Discard spent grains using a strainer.

Step 5: Once the mixture starts boiling, remove and add malt extract; stir well. Put the pot on medium heat and again boil the mixture carefully. Overboiling will result in a sticky business. Once the mixture boils, add two-thirds of hop pellets, and boil for an hour. Remove from heat and add remaining hop pellets.

Step 6: Unfermented beer is termed as ‘wort’. To cool the wort, place the brew pot in an ice bath in the sink. Sanitize the strainer, funnel, fermentation bottle as well as airtight cap by soaking them in 1 tbsp of bleach for half an hour.

Step 7: Pour the wort through the strainer into the bottle using a funnel. Add tap water if the wort mixture does not reach the 2 ½ gallon mark.

Step 8: Pitching yeast refers to the addition of yeast to the wort. Allow the wort to cool at room temperature before adding yeast.

Step 9: The yeast sugars take a period of seven to ten days to convert the wort into alcohol. The fermenter is kept in a dark place.

Step 10: Priming refers to the addition of extra fermented sugars before bottling. For the process, boil sugar for five minutes along with a cup of water. Cover and cool the mixture. Pour into a container and siphon the beer into bottling container carefully

Step 11: Fill the sanitized bottles with the prepared mixture after fermenting for a period of seven to ten days.

You have just now prepared tasty beer that you can enjoy with your friends and family members. Serve chilled beer prepared at home and shine among your peers.

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