So I have been a homebrewer for some time now and it is the first time I can actually drink beer (these mass produce taste bad and should be tossed into the ocean at the deepest place) since I started making my own.
And this has actually lead me to start my own micro brewing company here in Sweden!
Anyhow, anyone here tried it and have experience from making your own beer?
Some tidbits how to make your own beer:
Well, you can have advance stuff or, you can make it much easier (hey, Egyptians 2000 years ago could do it!).
The process is mashing (day 1) - boiling (day 1) - fermentation (day 1, then let it ferment usually for a week, this depends on what yeast you are using) - bottle - wait (also depending on yeast, and of course style of beer, but minimum three weeks) - drink
Mashing
When you mash you extract the sugar from the malt and create sweet wort, here you need something to mash out to.
So to start the process you add malt into a freeze box at 66C:
Let it stand for a while and then you take the contents and put it in a bucket with fake bottom (not sure for the English word here), then you poor water onto the malt bed and let it filter through and extract the sugar, creating sweet wort. To end the process you pour 76C water on the malt.
Bucket with false bottom:
Boiling
Boiling is a straight forward process with regular kitchen equipment. It is also here you add the hoops for your beer. The hoops create the bitterness in your beer as well as how you beer will smell, which usually is added very late in the boiling phase.
Fermantation
To ferment you need to have a canister that is air tight with a water lock that contains boiled water. Before you put your boiled wort into the fermentation tank you need to cool it down to around 20C, this is because you dont want to kill your yeast which you then apply into the tank.
Example fermentation tank:
Bottling
After the beer has been in the fermentation tank for a week you need to bottle it. Here you take the beer (that now has produced alcohol, yay!) and bottle it. Here you would need glass, caps and capper. You also will need brewing sugar to add into the beer (BEFORE BOTTLING) so that the yeast reactivate itself and start producing carbonic.
Finishing
Now the beer is finishing up and starting to get the characteristics of a beer!
Above is just a short explanation a lot more measuring gravity how to make the beer more clear etc.
And this has actually lead me to start my own micro brewing company here in Sweden!
Anyhow, anyone here tried it and have experience from making your own beer?
Some tidbits how to make your own beer:
Well, you can have advance stuff or, you can make it much easier (hey, Egyptians 2000 years ago could do it!).
The process is mashing (day 1) - boiling (day 1) - fermentation (day 1, then let it ferment usually for a week, this depends on what yeast you are using) - bottle - wait (also depending on yeast, and of course style of beer, but minimum three weeks) - drink
Mashing
When you mash you extract the sugar from the malt and create sweet wort, here you need something to mash out to.
So to start the process you add malt into a freeze box at 66C:
Let it stand for a while and then you take the contents and put it in a bucket with fake bottom (not sure for the English word here), then you poor water onto the malt bed and let it filter through and extract the sugar, creating sweet wort. To end the process you pour 76C water on the malt.
Bucket with false bottom:
Boiling
Boiling is a straight forward process with regular kitchen equipment. It is also here you add the hoops for your beer. The hoops create the bitterness in your beer as well as how you beer will smell, which usually is added very late in the boiling phase.
Fermantation
To ferment you need to have a canister that is air tight with a water lock that contains boiled water. Before you put your boiled wort into the fermentation tank you need to cool it down to around 20C, this is because you dont want to kill your yeast which you then apply into the tank.
Example fermentation tank:
Bottling
After the beer has been in the fermentation tank for a week you need to bottle it. Here you take the beer (that now has produced alcohol, yay!) and bottle it. Here you would need glass, caps and capper. You also will need brewing sugar to add into the beer (BEFORE BOTTLING) so that the yeast reactivate itself and start producing carbonic.
Finishing
Now the beer is finishing up and starting to get the characteristics of a beer!
Above is just a short explanation a lot more measuring gravity how to make the beer more clear etc.
