How To Make Your Own Homebrew

Every one loves beer right? That’s a given, but, does everyone know how to make beer at home? Well more to the point, does everyone want to even get into making beer at home for fear of screwing the whole process up? There are so many kinds of beer you can make, that it might be worth a try.

If you aren’t into having all the equipment in your basement, then you might want to think twice about making beer at home. However, it is honestly not that difficult and even a novice with no experience can manage to make some really nice beer, provided they read the manual and do what they’re told.

Making beer at home isn’t for everyone. So if you’re going to try it out, then don’t invest a lot of money in a high-end kit with all the bells and whistles. Get something that’s reasonably priced, easy to set up, has great and very clear instructions to follow and then give it a try. You’ll likely be pleasantly surprised by the results.

Making beer at home is a nice cheap way to provide “brewskis” for home entertainment and for gifts. However, remember this one golden rule: “Read the instructions carefully and don’t experiment.” Trying to guess what you need to do next won’t cut it. If you don’t think you can sit still long enough to read the kit information, then let your wife take care of it.

Most of the kits on the market for making beer at home are pretty decent and go well together with the variety of ingredients you will need to get rolling. Make sure that the ingredients you do buy are top quality. Cheap ingredients will affect the taste of your beer. The scoop is that a good beer making kit can range in price from $60 to $200 and can keep you in beer until the cows come home once you have mastered the art.

Really, all you need on hand to make home brewed beer is four things. Make sure they are the best you can get, and the whole process will be really smooth. Here is what you need: filtered water, malted barley, hops and yeast. There are lots of places to get these ingredients, and in fact, you can likely get them at the store that sold you the beer making kit. Some kits come with enough ingredients in them to make one batch.

Take your four ingredients and boil them the length of time suggested depending on the recipe you are following. This is different for each beer style you are trying, but not that difficult to do. The combination of the four ingredients you are boiling is called wort (pronounced wert) and when it’s done, you pour it into the fermenter where you leave it sit until it cools down.

Once the mix is cool, toss in prepared yeast and put an airlock over the opening and allow the yeast to go to work. It takes about 7 to 10 days for the yeast to eat the sugar in the mixture and drop to the bottom of the fermenter. At this point you bottle the beer and leave it to mature for about two weeks. Voila! Easy right? Well why not try it and find out?