Brew beer at home - learn how to make homemade beer!

In this part of the webpage, I will show the process of brewing your own beer at home. And I will tell you secret - It really is easy to make beer!

It will be a step-by-step description of the whole process - from before you start brewing to the bottling of the finished beer.

Before you Start to Brew

The first thing you need to determine, is what type of beer you want to make. There are many types of beer to choose from! I suggest you start with an easy and uncomplicated beer for your first brew. A pale ale is very easy and simple to brew, and you do not need to ad many types of hops and malts. You can find many, more or less complicated, beer recipes on the internet, so you know what ingredients to buy. As you get more experienced, you can always make your own recipes.

The steps in the brewing process is as follows:

• Getting ready
• Adding malt
• Mashing
• Lautering
• Sparging
• Adding hops
• Adding flavour
• Adding Irish moss
• Chilling
• Measure Original Gravity - OG
• Cleaning/sanitizing equipment
• Fermentation
• Secondary fermentation
• Measure Final Gravity - FG
• Measure alcohol
• Cleaning/sanitizing before bottling
• Carbonation
• Bottling
• Labeling

Some Words of Advise

As you can see, the process seems pretty easy - and it is! However, I think you need to know a couple of things before you start brewing beer. If you brew a big amount of beer, it will take in the area of five to seven hours from you begin to you end. So make sure you have plenty of time! Do not rush into it. Instead enjoy a day without stress - as any hobby should be.

You can not fail in the process but in one thing - how clean and sanitized your equipment is! This is by far the most important and delicate matter when you make beer. When the wort has been cooled down, it is very vulnerable - even a hair, or a fly, in the wort can infect it, and that way destroy the beer and make it undrinkable. Make sure to clean and sanitize all the equipment, and your hands and arms, thoroughly before the wort touches you or the equipment! Then you will have no troubles, when you make beer!