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Revision as of 16:00, 28 February 2007
This guide is written for would be All Grain brewers to see what is involved in a basic all grain brewing session. It is not meant to be a tutorial but just an overview of what is involved in brewing a good beer.
In it's simplest form making an extract beer involves adding hopped extract to hot water, pouting into a fermenter, topping up with cold water and adding the yeast. Put an airlock on, wait 7-10 days. Bottle with a little sugar in each bottle, cap and wait 2 weeks. Your beer is then hopefully done and ready to drink.
Will this give yo good beer and the satisfaction of real brewing? Debatable. Lets look at a more satisfying involved method.
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Basics Steps
- Recipe
Most home brew extract kits are the add malt to water and pitch yeast variety. If you want to get a recipe for a better extract beer then there are multiple books and internet sources available with thousands of recipes. You can then purchase your ingredients in small amounts from most HomeBrew Stores.
- Equipment
The minimum equipment require for the following method is:
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- Ingredients
The fermentables (sugars to be turned to alcohol) for the brew will come from the malt Extract, either DME or LME. Speciality grains are steeped mainly for colour and flavour properties and no to fermentable sugars. Hops are added for bitterness, flavour and aroma.
- Steeping the Grain.
- Remove Grain
- Add bittering hops
- Boil
- Add Flavour hops
- Add Malt Extract
- Add Aroma hops
- cool
- Add to fermenter
- Top up water
- Mix
- Pitch yeast
More advanced Methods
Full Boil
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Mini Mash
Detailed How To Pages
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