Brew Beer at Home – Three Easy Homebrew Recipes
Brewing your own beer can be very exciting and as per your liking, you can even add variations to the recipe. There are several recipes that you could use to give different flavours to your home brew. Let us take a look at a few recipes that are easy to follow and most appropriate for those who are brewing their very first batch of beer supplies.
This first recipe is of an American style Home brewed Pale Ale, which is a very simple recipe, but a good learning example for beginners. You will first need to get one of the beer kits available at a home brew store along with the ingredients required for brewing beer.
Ingredients:
3.75 lbs Cooper’s Bitter Brewing Kit
2 lbs gold or light dry malt extract
1 oz Cascade hops in pellet form
In about a 2 gallon pot, the larger the better, put in a gallon of water and let it boil. While the water boils get your ingredients and the other equipment ready.
Open the can of Cooper’s bitter extracts and pour in some hot water from the tap so that the semi-solid liquid can soften up.
In the meantime sterilize the fermenting bucket and other brewing equipment and get them ready for use. You must remember that it is very important to sterilize everything that you are going to use when brewing beer at home.
Once the water comes to a boil, stir in the bitter extracts, rinsing the can with more hot water from the tap in order to use up all the extract. Stirring continuously, pour in the malt extract. Continue to stir so that the malt dissolves and mixes well without forming lumps.
When the water is boiling again, put in the hops and allow to boil for another 5 minutes. After the home brew is through with the boiling process, immerse the pot in cold water to cool the now ready ‘wort’. The wort has to cool down before it can be poured into the fermenting bucket.
Meanwhile, fill your fermenting bucket with about 3 gallons of cold water. When the wort has cooled down, pour the brew into the fermenting bucket and fill it up further with cold water until it reaches the 5-gallon mark.
Put the thermometer into the bucket to check the temperature from time to time, as the home brew needs to be kept at room temperature. Cover with lid and allow the wort to stand in a cool dry place.
For a maltier home brew, you can add extra grain extracts to your home brew.
Ingredients:
1 lb crushed crystal malt
1 can Coopers Real Ale extract
1 pound dry malt extract
0.25 oz Willamette hops
Secure the crushed crystal malt in a grain bag and let it boil in a gallon of water. Keep stirring and when the water comes to a boil, remove the grain bag and squeeze the liquid out of it. Allow the water to boil for 10 more minutes and then add the dry malt extract, stirring it until it dissolves. Now add the Coopers Real Ale extracts and stir, boiling for another 5 minutes. Put in the Willamette hops and turn the burner off. Allow to cool before filling the wort into the fermenting bucket.
This third recipe is a more thirst-quenching form of home brew.
Ingredients:
1 lb crushed pale ale malt
1 lb crushed crystal malt
6 lbs North western Gold liquid malt extract
2 lbs light or gold dry malt extract
0.75 Galena hops pellets
1.5 English Kent Goldings Hops pellets
1 packet Whitbread Ale Yeast
In 3 gallons of water, boil the grain extracts in a tightly secured grain bag. Once the water comes to a boil, stir in the liquid and dry malt extracts and allow it to boil further. When the water is boiling, drop in the Galena hops and allow to boil for 25 minutes and then add half of the Goldings hops. Boil for a further 20 minutes before adding the remaining hops and switch off the burner. Cool the wort in a wort chiller to bring it down to room temperature before pouring it into the fermenting bucket with an additional two gallons of cold water.
Author: Tim J Kirby
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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