Difference between revisions of "Extract Brewing Simplified"

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.

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:

• 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

Mini Mash

Detailed How To Pages

Further Reading

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