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HOMEBREW 101How to Get Started Making Your Own Beer
We’re going to talk about...
What exactly is beer, anyway?
What kind of beer can you make at home?
What equipment do you need?
How do you actually make beer?
Cool! How do I get started?
What to do after my first batch?
What is beer, anyway?
What is beer, anyway?
Besides delicious, beer is...
Malted Grains
• Contribute fermentable sugars, flavors, and color
• Typically barley, but also wheat, oat, rye, etc
• Base and specialty malts
Hops
• Add bitterness, flavor and aroma to beer
• A natural preservative
• Lots of variety in level of bitterness and types of aromas
Yeast
• Convert fermentable sugars to alcohol and CO2
• Two types, ale (top fermenting) and lager (bottom fermenting)
• Ale yeasts can add flavors
Water
• Cleaner water leads to better beer
• Home brewers often opt for bottled drinking water
What is beer, anyway?
In addition to the four main ingredients, you can brew with... just about anything! Fruit (raspberries, cherries, watermelon, etc) Chocolate Coffee Spices (vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon, lemon zest,
etc) Sugars (like brown or beet) Honey Chili peppers (no really)
What kind of beer can you make at home?
Answer: Anything but Bud Light
What kind of beer can you make at home?
Most home brewers start with ales They ferment best between 65 and 75
degrees
Some common ale styles: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Stout Porter Barley Wine
Brown / Red / Amber Ales
Wheat Beers (Hefeweizen)
Belgian Dubbel and Trippel
What kind of beer can you make at home?
Sounds a little intimidating... that’s a lot of options Home brew stores sell recipe kits with
everything you need As a beginner, just decide what you want to
brew
What kind of beer can you make at home?
We’re going to talk about making: An ale recipe kit using
specialty grains With a single-stage
fermentation Using a technique
called Extract Brewing and a Partial Boil
What kind of equipment do you need?
Hint: Not this much...
What kind of equipment do you need?
Brew Pot Stainless vs.
Aluminum $40 - $300+ Lots of sizes (4 to
30+ gal.)
Fermenter Bucket or Carboy 6 gal. min. capacity Both require an
airlock
What kind of equipment do you need?
Brewing Accessories Long Handled
Spoon (plastic or stainless)
Strainer Thief (Turkey
Baster)
Auto-Siphon 6 foot hose Cheap ($11) and
super easy to start a siphon
What kind of equipment do you need?
Bottling Bucket Plastic bucket with
spigot Short length of hose Bottle filler
Bottling Accessories Bottles – New or Used Caps Bottle Capper
What kind of equipment do you need?
Measurement Devices Thermometer Hydrometer Test tube
Cleaning Supplies Powdery Brew Wash StarSan Sanitizer Brushes
How do you actually make beer?
Made (not so) painstakingly by YOU!
How do you actually make beer?
Step 1: Clean Everything Mix up a solution of your cleaner, per
instructions Thoroughly clean everything that will touch
the beer
Step 2: Assemble Equipment and Ingredients You’ll need the brew pot, fermenter, airlock,
long spoon, strainer, turkey baster, hydrometer, thermometer
Recipe kit + 6 gallons of bottled drinking water
Set the yeast out at room temperature, up to 24 hours
How do you actually make beer?
Step 2: Assemble Equipment and Ingredients
How do you actually make beer?
Step 3: Soak the Specialty Grains Bring 2 to 2.5 gal. of water up to approx. 155o
Once heated, place the grain bag in the water Typically steeps for 20
to 30 minutes, per recipe When finished, lift in and
out like a tea bag Let it drip, then discard
Return the pot to the heatand bring to a boil
How do you actually make beer?
Step 4: Add Malt Extract Remove the heat
source and slowly add the extract Add slowly, and stir; it
can scorch and needs to dissolve
Return to heat, bring to a roiling boil Watch it! It contains a
LOT of sugar and can boil over...
How do you actually make beer?
Step 5: Boil the Wort and Add Hops Once you get to a roiling boil, reduce heat
and set timer 60 minutes: Add bittering hops 15 minutes: Add flavoring hops 5 minutes: Add aroma hops
While the wort boils, sanitizethe fermentation equipment Bucket, airlock, turkey baster, strainer, ladle Just don’t go too far...
How do you actually make beer?
Step 6: Cool the Wort Need to get the wort below 75o as fast as
possible
Your Kitchen Sink
• Submerge the brew pot in an ice bath in sink or cooler
• Will need to stir the wort to circulate
• Replace the cold water as necessary
Wort Chiller
• Passes cold water through a ring of tubing for heat exchange
• Connects to faucet with adapter
• Place into wort for last 15 min of boil to sanitize
Ice Cold Top-Off Water
• Put 3 gallons in the freezer when you start
• When you’re ready to ferment, it will be ice cold
• Some brewers frown on it, and it’s not entirely effective
How do you actually make beer?
Step 7: Strain & Aerate the Wort Straining remove
grain and hop fragments
Aerating introduces O2 which helps start fermentation
Check specific gravity with sanitized hydrometer
How do you actually make beer?
Step 8: Pitch the Yeast Shake the yeast vial
and pour into fermenter
Give a good stir with a sanitized spoon
Seal the fermenter with sanitized lid, and add airlock
How do you actually make beer?
Step 9: Clean Everything Take good care of the
equipment, clean after every use
Step 10: Wait Beer ferments for between
2 and 3 weeks
In the third week, take three specific gravity readings at 24 hour intervals; stable gravity = time to bottle
How do you actually make beer?
Step 11: Prep for Bottling Soak and scrub all bottles the night before Day of, clean bottling bucket, spigot, bottle
filler, siphon
How do you actually make beer?
Step 12: Prime and Transfer to Bottling Bucket Sanitize everything, let
bottles drip dry Boil and dissolve priming
sugar into 2 cups of water Add sugar water to bottling
bucket Using the sanitized auto-
siphon, transfer the beer from primary to bottling bucket
How do you actually make beer?
Step 13: Bottle and Store Fill each beer to top
and put sanitized cap on top
Seal all bottles with capper
Store in a cool dark place for 3 weeks
Cool! How do I get started?
Don’t take my word for it Keep reading, there’s a ton of info out there
The Complete Joy of Home Brewing HomebrewTalk.com (Forums) TastyBrew.com (Recipe Database)
Purchase an equipment kit and recipe I buy from AustinHomebrew.com
Tons of recipes, $7.99 flat rate shipping
What to do after my first batch?
Get another fermenter and try two-stage fermentation Transfer from primary to secondary after 7-10
days Gets away from dead yeast, and allows for
clarification
Come up with your own recipe Software available to help build recipes
Mini-Mash and All-Grain brewing Mini-mash is all-grain technique for a small
amount of grain All-grain is using nothing but grains
Resources
Equipment / Recipes AustinHomebrew.c
om NorthernBrewer.co
m
Knowledge HomebrewTalk.co
m TastyBrew.com
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