This is what I got with my kit. It contains a plastic bucket for primary fermentation. This is where the fermentation process will start after you have "brewed" your beer. It will ferment in this vessel for roughly two weeks or until fermentation is done. The next piece of equipment is the glass carboy. After the beer and finished fermenting it will still be hazy, this is where the glass carboy comes into play. Transferring the beer from the primary fermenting bucket into the glass carboy for two weeks will help your beer clear and age. You can keep your beer in the glass carboy for up to a year or longer to age really strong beers. So one might ask, when can I drink it? This is where the middle bottling bucket comes into play. After your beer has cleared in the glass carboy it is time to move it into the bottling bucket. At this time you have to add a little more sugar to your beer so it will carbonate. The amount varies depending on style but usually it is 1/2 - 3/4 of a cup. This will add more fermentable sugar for the yeast to turn into alcohol and CO2, only this time they will be in a sealed bottle and the CO2 will be dissolved into beer creating a naturally carbonated beer. The process of carbonating your beer will take roughly 2 weeks. Then you are able to drink your hand crafted beer, but don't drink them all they are like fine wine and get better with age.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Welcome
Do you like micro-brewed beer? Are you sick of paying the premium price for a premium beer? Have you ever thought about brewing your own beer? I made the decision to start brewing my own beer three years ago. I loved drinking good quality beer, but being a college student it was expensive to pay for these high quality beers. I started researching brewing your own beer and decided this was what I was going to do. The process is so simple anyone can do it. Essentially it is malt (sugar), water, and yeast. The yeast will eat the sugar and produce alcohol and CO2, giving you beer. When I started, I went on ebay and bought a starter kit, which came with everything that I need to get started brewing my own beer.
This is what I got with my kit. It contains a plastic bucket for primary fermentation. This is where the fermentation process will start after you have "brewed" your beer. It will ferment in this vessel for roughly two weeks or until fermentation is done. The next piece of equipment is the glass carboy. After the beer and finished fermenting it will still be hazy, this is where the glass carboy comes into play. Transferring the beer from the primary fermenting bucket into the glass carboy for two weeks will help your beer clear and age. You can keep your beer in the glass carboy for up to a year or longer to age really strong beers. So one might ask, when can I drink it? This is where the middle bottling bucket comes into play. After your beer has cleared in the glass carboy it is time to move it into the bottling bucket. At this time you have to add a little more sugar to your beer so it will carbonate. The amount varies depending on style but usually it is 1/2 - 3/4 of a cup. This will add more fermentable sugar for the yeast to turn into alcohol and CO2, only this time they will be in a sealed bottle and the CO2 will be dissolved into beer creating a naturally carbonated beer. The process of carbonating your beer will take roughly 2 weeks. Then you are able to drink your hand crafted beer, but don't drink them all they are like fine wine and get better with age.
This is what I got with my kit. It contains a plastic bucket for primary fermentation. This is where the fermentation process will start after you have "brewed" your beer. It will ferment in this vessel for roughly two weeks or until fermentation is done. The next piece of equipment is the glass carboy. After the beer and finished fermenting it will still be hazy, this is where the glass carboy comes into play. Transferring the beer from the primary fermenting bucket into the glass carboy for two weeks will help your beer clear and age. You can keep your beer in the glass carboy for up to a year or longer to age really strong beers. So one might ask, when can I drink it? This is where the middle bottling bucket comes into play. After your beer has cleared in the glass carboy it is time to move it into the bottling bucket. At this time you have to add a little more sugar to your beer so it will carbonate. The amount varies depending on style but usually it is 1/2 - 3/4 of a cup. This will add more fermentable sugar for the yeast to turn into alcohol and CO2, only this time they will be in a sealed bottle and the CO2 will be dissolved into beer creating a naturally carbonated beer. The process of carbonating your beer will take roughly 2 weeks. Then you are able to drink your hand crafted beer, but don't drink them all they are like fine wine and get better with age.
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