| Brewing your own beer can be very exciting and as | | | | 5-gallon mark. |
| per your liking, you can even add variations to the | | | | Put the thermometer into the bucket to check the |
| recipe. There are several recipes that you could use | | | | temperature from time to time, as the home brew |
| to give different flavours to your home brew. Let us | | | | needs to be kept at room temperature. Cover with |
| take a look at a few recipes that are easy to follow | | | | lid and allow the wort to stand in a cool dry place. |
| and most appropriate for those who are brewing | | | | For a maltier home brew, you can add extra grain |
| their very first batch of beer supplies. | | | | extracts to your home brew. |
| This first recipe is of an American style Home | | | | Ingredients: |
| brewed Pale Ale, which is a very simple recipe, but a | | | | 1 lb crushed crystal malt |
| good learning example for beginners. You will first | | | | 1 can Coopers Real Ale extract |
| need to get one of the beer kits available at a home | | | | 1 pound dry malt extract |
| brew store along with the ingredients required for | | | | 0.25 oz Willamette hops |
| brewing beer. | | | | Secure the crushed crystal malt in a grain bag and let |
| Ingredients: | | | | it boil in a gallon of water. Keep stirring and when the |
| 3.75 lbs Cooper's Bitter Brewing Kit | | | | water comes to a boil, remove the grain bag and |
| 2 lbs gold or light dry malt extract | | | | squeeze the liquid out of it. Allow the water to boil |
| 1 oz Cascade hops in pellet form | | | | for 10 more minutes and then add the dry malt |
| In about a 2 gallon pot, the larger the better, put in a | | | | extract, stirring it until it dissolves. Now add the |
| gallon of water and let it boil. While the water boils | | | | Coopers Real Ale extracts and stir, boiling for another |
| get your ingredients and the other equipment ready. | | | | 5 minutes. Put in the Willamette hops and turn the |
| Open the can of Cooper's bitter extracts and pour in | | | | burner off. Allow to cool before filling the wort into |
| some hot water from the tap so that the semi-solid | | | | the fermenting bucket. |
| liquid can soften up. | | | | This third recipe is a more thirst-quenching form of |
| In the meantime sterilize the fermenting bucket and | | | | home brew. |
| other brewing equipment and get them ready for | | | | Ingredients: |
| use. You must remember that it is very important to | | | | 1 lb crushed pale ale malt |
| sterilize everything that you are going to use when | | | | 1 lb crushed crystal malt |
| brewing beer at home. | | | | 6 lbs North western Gold liquid malt extract |
| Once the water comes to a boil, stir in the bitter | | | | 2 lbs light or gold dry malt extract |
| extracts, rinsing the can with more hot water from | | | | 0.75 Galena hops pellets |
| the tap in order to use up all the extract. Stirring | | | | 1.5 English Kent Goldings Hops pellets |
| continuously, pour in the malt extract. Continue to stir | | | | 1 packet Whitbread Ale Yeast |
| so that the malt dissolves and mixes well without | | | | In 3 gallons of water, boil the grain extracts in a |
| forming lumps. | | | | tightly secured grain bag. Once the water comes to a |
| When the water is boiling again, put in the hops and | | | | boil, stir in the liquid and dry malt extracts and allow it |
| allow to boil for another 5 minutes. After the home | | | | to boil further. When the water is boiling, drop in the |
| brew is through with the boiling process, immerse the | | | | Galena hops and allow to boil for 25 minutes and then |
| pot in cold water to cool the now ready 'wort'. The | | | | add half of the Goldings hops. Boil for a further 20 |
| wort has to cool down before it can be poured into | | | | minutes before adding the remaining hops and switch |
| the fermenting bucket. | | | | off the burner. Cool the wort in a wort chiller to bring |
| Meanwhile, fill your fermenting bucket with about 3 | | | | it down to room temperature before pouring it into |
| gallons of cold water. When the wort has cooled | | | | the fermenting bucket with an additional two gallons |
| down, pour the brew into the fermenting bucket and | | | | of cold water. |
| fill it up further with cold water until it reaches the | | | | |
