Just Home Brew Tips

Beer is the third most consumed drink in the world next to water and tea. Today brewing beer a home has become a hobby for most people. Brewing beer at home has many uses including personal consumption, free distribution to people at personal gathering and other non-commercial uses.

Beer is produced by brewing starch source in water like cereal grains and then fermenting with yeast. The main ingredients required for making beer are water, a source of starch like cereal grains or malted barley, yeast for fermentation and hops or any other alternative for flavoring. Secondary starch source like rice, sugar, etc can also be used. Read the full post

There are several words that you will be introduced to when brewing beer. Some of them are probably things that you have heard before such as pH, Ale, and Lager. This article will give a more in depth description of these terms as well as give you a variety of new homebrewing vocabulary that you may not have heard yet.

ABV – Alcohol by volume

ABW – Alcohol by weight

Airlock – a plastic top that lets carbon dioxide be released during fermentation without contaminating your brew.

Ale – top fermented beer Read the full post

The history of making alcoholic beverages is essentially the history of home brewing. Historians believe that beer was originally discovered by people of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Barley was a staple grain of this area and it was soon learned that if the barley got wet and was allowed to germinate, it would become sweet and could be used in foods like bread. This process is known as malting.

It didn’t take much time after the discovery of malting to discover beer. Someone probably allowed their malted barley to get wet and remain exposed to the elements. Perhaps wild yeast contaminated the exposed liquid. The yeast then took hold and multiplied generating a bubbly liquid of alcohol and barley that soon became the first beer.

The first thing you will need to do is acquire the ingredients and equipment for this brew. You will need the standard equipment for making a home brewed beer and the following supplies:
4 pounds of English light syrup
4 pounds of Canadian light syrup
.5 pound of 60L crystal malt (grain)
0.13 pounds of Roasted Barley
1 ounce of Centennial pellet hops
3/4 cup of priming sugar
1 packet of Nottingham ale yeast
Hop bags and grain bags Read the full post