| She's a pretty girl, and she can make a cake from | | | | 5. Carbonation takes place with the addition of a |
| scratch, but can she make homemade beer? You | | | | second sugar to the beer, which is then stored in |
| might be surprised at how many people make and | | | | either bottles or kegs. |
| store homebrewed beer. Is your mate among them? | | | | 6. And the easy part....Drinking! |
| Are you? | | | | Still afraid to get started? Perhaps master brewer |
| Beer making follows very simple rules. So, why wait? | | | | and author, John Palmer, can help. He knows the ins |
| If homebrewed beer is something you'd like to try, | | | | and outs of home-brewing beer and the mistakes |
| then this should help you get started. And the good | | | | that can be made. He says his first homemade beer |
| news is that it costs very little to bottle your first | | | | was "fit only for mosquitoes to lay their eggs in." |
| homemade brew. | | | | He suggests beginning with a "fool-proof" ale beer |
| People have been making homemade alcohol for | | | | recipe because ale is the easiest type of homemade |
| thousands of years, ever since man first stumbled | | | | beer to make. Palmer includes terms and tools you'll |
| onto fermentation. After tasting the results of fruit | | | | need to make your first beer. |
| left to rot in the bottom of a jug (wine), he moved | | | | You could start brewing beer from scratch or you |
| to grains, which are the main ingredients of beer. | | | | could begin with a home brewing beer kit which can |
| Beer recipes have been found among some of the | | | | be had for under $100. Beer kits are available from |
| world's oldest recorded Sumerian writings. | | | | your local beer and wine supplies store, eBay, or one |
| Homebrewed beer is a thoughtful process, not a | | | | of the links below. |
| complicated one; it involves 6 components or steps: | | | | A simple search of the Internet will leave you with |
| 1. Mash is made when a malted grain is mixed with | | | | thousands of returns for recipes, games and other |
| water and then heated causing the starch to change | | | | important beer information. Making your own beer |
| into sugar. Mashes are available in a "No Boil" Kit, a | | | | can not only be useful it can also be a great |
| partial mash, or the most complicated option, a full | | | | experience. Think about it, they brewed their own |
| mash. | | | | beer years ago and look how much fun they had. So |
| 2. Wort (pronounced wirt, not wart) is the liquid | | | | much they tried to shut them down! Try and stay |
| formed by the malted grain mash. Wort can be | | | | out of trouble, but there is nothing any better than a |
| purchased pre-made in dry or liquids. | | | | home brewed cold one. |
| 3. Fermentation happens when a sugar mash is | | | | Caution |
| encouraged to convert into alcohol and carbon | | | | Homemade beer is for your consumption; stay out |
| dioxide via the introduction of bacteria (yeast). Once | | | | of trouble, don't sell it. |
| yeast is added, wort becomes beer. | | | | And play it safe, check with your state or provincial |
| 4. Conditioning (also known as secondary | | | | laws before embarking on your homebrew beer |
| fermentation) is when the beer is siphoned from one | | | | adventure. |
| container to another and allowed to brew again. | | | | |
