Brew Your Own Beer At Home

Someone who is not familiar with the process of home brewing may be
wondering just how difficult it is in the first place. If it
involves a lot of mixing and boiling and mashing and grinding and
more mixing, is it even worth it? If it's difficult, why bother?

In reality, the process of making homemade beer is not that hard.
Yes, there is some mixing and boiling and things such as these, but
learning how to make homemade beer is typically just as easy as
learning how to make homemade soup. And once you get the process
down, you can pretty much do it with your eyes closed ... well, not
really since there is some boiling liquid involved, but you get the
picture!

Homemade beer, in a nutshell, is made by steeping some malted
grains or other basic elements in water for some time; this is kind
of how you make tea, when you steep the leaves in water. For beer,
you then add more water to this to make several gallons of your
liquid. This too boils for some time, and then you add hops and
any other ingredients you want to toss in there. Some put in
mashed fruit, or honey, or something else to give their beer a
sweeter taste.

This large tub of liquid is transferred to what's called a
fermentation container, and to this you add some yeast. You then
close up this container and let it sit for several days. After
that, you siphon it off or use a strainer to put it in a second
container. This step is important because the liquid will have
some sediment and other little icky things at the bottom of it, and
you want the pure liquid at this point.

Once the liquid is in what's called the secondary fermentation
container, you let that sit for probably a few more days. You then
use a cooking thermometer and a little instrument called a
hydrometer, which looks a lot like a thermometer, to test the
liquid and see if it's done. When it is, you transfer it to
bottles, and add some carbonation at this point. Cap the bottles,
and presto! You have beer.

Pretty simple, right? Sounds a lot like a cross between a bit pot
of tea and homemade soup, and in reality, that's not a bad
comparison.

Of course, most people who make homemade beer follow recipes that
tell them exactly what to do step by step, and you may need to make
some minor adjustments to the procedure we've mentioned, but this
is pretty much how homemade beer is made.

If you were one of those that was thinking that homemade beer was
just too complicated, you can see that it's not. There's no reason
to be intimidated. Making homemade beer and wine is fast becoming
one of the easiest and most enjoyable hobbies that people can
pursue - and don't worry, so can you!

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