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How to make beer
Learning how to make beer can a great hobby and culinary achievement for the home brewing enthusiast and microbrewery operators that has a long tradition which can be both fun and refreshingly rewarding. The process is flexible allowing you to make your brew to your taste, and is highly repeatable if wanted to make more from the same recipe.
Ingredients for how to make beer
You\'ll need malt extract. It comes in two forms. Liquid extract is sticky, easily scorched, and packaged in inconvenient 3.3 lb. cans. Dry extract is fine as long as you never open the package. The moment it\'s exposed to air, it sucks up all moisture within a distance of five miles and forms into thick clumps that are almost as sticky as liquid extract. Most brewers have a hard time deciding which is worse, so they use a combination of the two.
You\'ll also need hops for how to make beer. Once you\'ve selected your preferred variety, you need to make a simple calculation to achieve the proper degree of bitterness in your beer. Take you your age, multiply it by the number of taste buds in one square inch of your tongue, add the current temperature of you kitchen (in degrees Kelvin) and square the result. Divide this total by the number of beers you drank during the last Super bowl. Or toss in a handful and hope for the best.
Last but not yeast, you\'ll need least. Oops, \'scuze me. You know what I mean. Dry yeast comes in a convenient package containing a pure strain of brewing yeast pre-mixed at the factory with various unwanted bacteria that might ruin your beer. Liquid yeast comes sealed in a special pouch, allowing it to remain pure until you open it and expose it to all sorts of unwanted bacteria, thus giving your beer a personal touch. The choice is yours.
Steps for how to make beer
1. Using a clean bottle and a dry funnel, add the ingredients in sequence as stated in the steps that follow. First add a level cup of table sugar, (or cane sugar). Adjust the amount to achieve the desired sweetness.
2. Yeast on sugar. Measure out 1/4 teaspoon powdered baker\'s yeast, and place in the funnel. The yeast should be fresh and active, and any brand that is available will work.
3. Shake well to make sure that the yeast grains are distributed evenly into the sugar.
4. Swirl the sugar/yeast mixture in the bottom in order to make it concave and enable it to catch the extract in the middle.
5. Replace the funnel, and add 1 Tbsp of root beer extract on top of the dry sugar.
Notice how the extract sticks to the sugar. This will help dissolve the extract as seen in the next few steps.
6. Fill the bottle halfway with fresh cool tap water that has only a little chlorine. Pour through the funnel and use this opportunity to rinse extract stuck to the funnel and tablespoon. Swirl to dissolve the ingredients this is important in order to learn how to make beer.
7. Fill the bottle to the neck, this time with fresh water, leaving only about an inch (2.54cm) of head space. Securely screw the cap so as to seal the bottle. Invert repeatedly to thoroughly dissolve the contents.
8. Place the sealed bottle at room temperature for about three or four days until the bottle feels hard to a forceful squeeze. How to make a beer further can be done by to move it to a cool place (below 65 F (18 C)). Refrigerate overnight to thoroughly chill before serving. Crack the lid of the bottle just a little to release the pressure slowly.
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