How to making home brew for the beginner?


Today we are going to show you the easiest way to brew your first batch of beer at home.
The best way to brew your first batch of beer is to pick up an ingredient kit from your local supply store. You can buy the ingredients box with instructions.
So you will find liquid malt extract, a bag of crushed speciality grains.
You should have some hops they might be vacuum sealed and here I have a package with my muslin bags for steeping my hops.
A package of yeast for fermenting the beer. A warlock tablet to clarify the beer and an example of the instructions to brew this kit.
 
The first step is to steep your speciality grains to add specific malt character to your batch of beer, the first thing I will do is steeping my grains in hot water in thie five gallon kettle that I have here.
A 5 gallon kettle with ideal size and stainless steel materials to use. The second thing to do is to check your water is about 150-170degrees.
I am using a simple stainless thermometer to check the temperature.
 
I’ve placed the curshed grains into this muslin bag and tied a knot into the top of the bag to hold them in. And now our water is at the correct temperature. The first thing is to steep them.
You should stir the grains periodically. And you’ll see in just a few moments how much color and flavors steep out of those grains. Once you steeped your grains for about 30 minutes,
you will want to remove them from the water. Place them in a stainer and rinse the extra flavors, sugars and color from those grains with a small amount of hot water.
 
The next step is to add your malt extract to the water which is the extracted fermentable sugars from malted barley and you will want to stir the pot very thoroughly and make sure
that you mix everything in. I usually rinse the jar out with hot water and get the rest into pot.
 
The next steep is to bring everything to a boil, when the wort is approaching a boil it is important to watch the pot and nurse the boil. Once you’ve reached a calm comfortable boil,
it is time to start your bittering addition, you will want to take your hops out of their bag. And place them into your muslin bag.
Add hops to your boiling wort and begin your 60minutes to start a 60mins boil.
As you are boiling your bittering addition you will be extracting the bitterness from those hops to counter the sweetness of malt in your wort,
your recipe may call for a flavouring or aroma addition of hops in the last 15minutes of your boil.
 
 
Edited by Cody
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