The first thought for many home brewers is ‘I want to make beer’. That’s it. It cannot be anymore simpler than that.
And then you google for information and that’s when you realize isn’t so simple. There’s water, malt, hops, yeast, fermenters and bottling. And from there, it gets more complicated: there’s sparge, lauter, mash, mash tun, grain bill, specialty grains, malt extract, wort, wort chiller, pitching, priming, conditioning, etc. It can get more and more complex, but the question here is: how complex do you want it to be?
Some great beers have really simple recipes: A few ingredients is all it takes to make a great beer. And some beers have really, really complex recipes.
Mostly, first time brewers start with beer kits with a fixed set of ingredients and a fail-safe recipe. The results are good. Over time, brewers move on to extract recipes and then onto all-grain or jump straight to all-grain. Either way, a brewer will end up with good results.
What you get may differ from what you want, but a good recipe followed thoroughly will yield good results. Brew day takes a couple of hours depending on what is involved, bottling your brew may take a few hours too; but if you’re careful enough to keep an eye out, then there’s a good beer waiting for you.
In this page, I will document my recipes, my experiments with ingredients, my beers and their tasting notes.
And then you google for information and that’s when you realize isn’t so simple. There’s water, malt, hops, yeast, fermenters and bottling. And from there, it gets more complicated: there’s sparge, lauter, mash, mash tun, grain bill, specialty grains, malt extract, wort, wort chiller, pitching, priming, conditioning, etc. It can get more and more complex, but the question here is: how complex do you want it to be?
Some great beers have really simple recipes: A few ingredients is all it takes to make a great beer. And some beers have really, really complex recipes.
Mostly, first time brewers start with beer kits with a fixed set of ingredients and a fail-safe recipe. The results are good. Over time, brewers move on to extract recipes and then onto all-grain or jump straight to all-grain. Either way, a brewer will end up with good results.
What you get may differ from what you want, but a good recipe followed thoroughly will yield good results. Brew day takes a couple of hours depending on what is involved, bottling your brew may take a few hours too; but if you’re careful enough to keep an eye out, then there’s a good beer waiting for you.
In this page, I will document my recipes, my experiments with ingredients, my beers and their tasting notes.
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