Home Brewing: 70 Top Secrets & Tricks To Beer Brewing Right The First Time: A Guide To Home Brew Any Beer You Want

Jason Scotts

Description

Home Brewing: 70 Top Secrets & Tricks To Beer Brewing Right The First Time: A Guide To Home Brew Any Beer You Want is the definitive book on making quality beers at home. Whether you want simple, sure-fire instructions for making your first beer, or you're a seasoned home brewer working with all-grain, this book has something for you. The book covers the full range of brewing possibilities - accurately, clearly, and simply. From ingredients and methods to recipes and equipment and troubleshooting for brewing beer at home, Home Brewing: 70 Top Secrets & Tricks To Beer Brewing Right The First Time: A Guide To Home Brew Any Beer You Want is loaded with valuable information on brewing techniques and recipe formulation. It's a must-have for every new and seasoned brewer's library.

Sujets

• Home Brew
• Homebrewing
• Brewing
• Homebrew

Informations

• Publié par: Speedy Publishing LLC
• Date de parution: 02 novembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781630222420
• Langue: English

Extrait

Table Of Contents

Introduction
Things You Need to Know First
Your First Brew
Doing it Like a Pro
Keeping it Clean
Beer Kits, Beer Sugar and Malt Extract
Water
Hops
Grains
Yeast
Boiling and Cooling
Transfers, Bottling, and Chilling
Troubleshooting
Getting the Best Results
Conclusion
Introduction
If you are trying to be the coolest host to a party, or you are a beer enthusiast and you want to produce beer just the way you want it, here s the good news: home brewing is an easy thing you can achieve, and you can get it right the first time. To a lot of other people, it can be a frustrating process just to get their first beer to taste like real beer should, but that would not be your problem because you have this guide.
Just like what the title promises you, this book is an ultimate guide to home brewing, from shopping to bottling. This book is also loaded with a lot of tips from master home brewers, and just like them, you would not have to buy beer ever again. Because you will love making your own beer, within this book are more 70 tips, secrets, and more instructions to be a successful home brewer.
The first two chapters would be something that you would want to memorize, so that you would never have to be confused when reading home brew kit instructions. The next chapters are loaded with tips and additional instructions that would allow you to experiment with flavor and the process. In short, being able to take note of all the instructions, you might want to progress from being a startup brewer to a pro. The next chapters will also provide you information about preventing all the mistakes most starting home brewers make, so make sure that you bookmark them accordingly.
Let s make some great alcohol, shall we
Things You Need to Know First
Before you start making your first beer, you have to at least know what you are trying to do (apart from getting drunk, of course). Since this is your first time to make beer, home brewing is actually an art that has developed over time. At the same time, different brew masters would have different techniques and tips, but feel free to use what is in this book before you experiment on your own.
The process of brewing beer can be broken down into 5 steps, namely:
1. Release the malt sugars by soaking malted barley into hot water.
2. Boil the malt sugar solution with hops for seasoning.
3. Cool that solution and add yeast to start fermentation.
4. During fermentation, the yeast ferments the sugar. The process releases ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide.
5. Bottle the beer with a little added sugar to get a little carbonation.
Sounds simple, right Well, it is. However, there are a lot of things that come in between these steps. Don t worry, though; you will learn them as you go by.
Before you shop, here are some terms that you need to keep in mind.
Beer - any kind of beverage made by fermenting malted barley and seasoning with hops
Ale - a kind of beer brewed from a yeast that is top fermenting through a warm and relatively short fermentation.
Attenuation - conversion of sugar to alcohol and CO2.
Fermentation - there are two parts to this process, which would be referred to as primary and secondary. Overall, these processes would convert malt sugar into beer.
Primary Fermentation - it is where carbon dioxide and Krausen evolves, and where most of the attenuation happens.
Secondary Fermentation - the time where the beer settles and is conditioned before bottling.
Conditioning - a process during secondary fermentation during which the flavors of the final beer are refined. The process continues while the beer is in the bottle.
Hops - these are available in pellets, plugs, or whole. Hop vines may be grown in areas with cool climate, and brewers like you make use of their cone like flowers.
Wort - solution made out of malt and sugar, which you boil before you ferment.
Priming - the addition of adding fermentable sugar before bottling to give carbonation to the beer.
Krausen - (kroy zen) the foamy head that forms on top of the beer during fermentation. It is also known as a pro method of priming.
Trub - sediments one can find at the bottom of the fermenter. It is made out of dead yeast and hot or cold break material.
Cold break - these proteins break out of the solution when the wort is cooled quickly and before the yeast is pitched.
Hot break - proteins that clump together and break from the solution while the wort boils
Gravity - just like what you know about density, it is described as the concentration of the malt sugar in the wort.
Specific gravity of water 1.000 at 59 F