Practical info for the smarter drinker
This is the first decision you’ll make as a homebrewer. These are the two basic methods of making beer at home – either use malt extract or malted barley (all-grain). Here’s a good analogy comparing the two methods: Say you want to make spaghetti, you have two options for pasta sauce: Buy pre-made sauce in …
1. Drink a beer. How else are you going to decide what you want to brew? 2. Read a book. The brewing process has a number of steps that need adequate explanation. A good book will explain the whole process and serve as a handy reference during your first several brews. You can buy a …
If someone is interested in brewing they often have the same set of initial questions… 1. How much beer can you make at one time? The standard homebrew batch is 5 gallons, or about 20 liters. That’s enough for eight 6-packs and change. Most of the pots, fermentors, and recipes are sized for roughly 5 …
I began brewing beer 4 years ago. For years I had thought about it and planned to someday give it a shot. I even went over a family friend’s house once and watched him brew beer in his kitchen, and came away telling myself “I could do that.” However I always had one excuse or …