How To Make Home Brewed Beer And Ale The Fun Way!
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One key thing to learn about how to make beer is a rule that applies to cooking as well as how to make beer: the quality of beer depends on the quality of ingredients that go into it. Fresher ingredients are better. One of the first things you can do to improve the quality and flavor of your beer is the yeast you use. If you start with a beer ingredient kit, you might be better of purchasing some fresher yeast. You can also opt to use a liquid yeast, as this can be an improvement over dry yeast. You can also look to upgrade all of the other ingredients as well, including the hops, grains and any other perishables that you might use.
After 2 weeks in the secondary, I primed and bottled. After a month in the bottle the flavor was amazing. After two months - to die for. At 7% alcohol by volume, I could have kept this one around for a long time, but it's hard to save a beer that great.
Once bottled, leave it be for no less than two weeks. It is during this time that the carbon dioxide is produced and your beer is carbonated. There are a few other ways to add CO2 to your learn to homebrew, but the aging is still something to allow.
The best ways to cool wort are probably either an ice bath (you could use a large sink or a bathtub, fill it will ice and water, then set the brew pot in the ice water and wait for it to cool), or an immersion chiller. Immersion chillers are expensive and require further attachments, but if you are interested in going this route, contact your local learn to home brew supply shop and they would be happy to show you one of their units and explain how it works.
We had a yard sale one spring and I sold the beer rig that had sat idle in its box. The can of malt extract syrup that had come with it was sporting a very impressive bulge by then and was discarded. Being a lover of books, I serendipitously kept Charlie's tome for my growing collection. Still no progress on Home Brewing Beer though.
Star San is a mild acid that kills all bugs and bacteria when applied. Best of all it does not impart any flavor to the beer. To use Star San, dilute with water per instruction on the package, fill a household spray bottle with the solution, and spray liberally on whatever needs to be sanitized. It's as simple as that.
