Often people complain that the beer that is in the store is not very tasty, not very healthy or even fake. The question arises: where can you taste beer that will suit them? Perhaps you should go to a beer festival in Central Europe? There is a simpler solution - brew beer yourself.
Pick your recipe
You will need
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- grains (wheat
- barley
- rye);
- water;
- hop;
- Brewer's yeast;
- salt;
- sugar syrup.
Instruction manual
1
Cook the malt. To make malt, you need the ingredients. They will be grains in this case. Which grain is worth making malt depends on your preference. You can make wheat beer, you can barley. Rye with oats is also suitable. When the necessary grains are already selected, you can go directly to the cooking process. Put the grains in a deep bowl and fill with water. After waiting for the grains to sprout (and you need to wait a few days), drain the remaining water, which is not absorbed into the grains, and get malt.
2
Make a must. To get it, you need to dilute malt with water. In order to get a must for beer, and not just boiled malt, you need to proceed as follows: boil clean water, then cool it to 60 degrees and add malt. Stir it all, cover and let simmer for several hours. At the same time add hops to the resulting brew. Cool the resulting fluid, give it access to oxygen.
3
Add brewer's yeast. Thanks to them, beer becomes like itself, getting alcohol from yeast. The time that the fermentation process goes through is ideally about two weeks. The first week the wort cools to 10-15 degrees. The second week, the beer continues to cool, but is already in wooden barrels.
4
Make beer easier. Earlier, a method of making beer was presented, in compliance with all technologies. But not everyone has barrels at home and not everyone has the patience to make beer for so long. You can make everything a lot easier. Take the ingredients, namely: 2.5 liters of malt, 5 liters of water, 3 cups of hops, half a teaspoon of salt, 50 g of dried yeast and 150 g of sugar syrup. Next, mix the malt in chilled water and leave for 24 hours. Boil for a couple of hours, then add hops. Boil it all for half an hour, then strain and cool to 40 degrees. Put beer brewer and half a cup of syrup in the resulting liquid. Stir and leave for 5 hours. Pour the beer into bottles, cork them in a day. Wait two more days, and then you can start consuming your home-made beer.