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If you, or someone you know, is looking for something to do in your spare time, consider brewing your own beer at home. This is a hobby that many people have started recently and they’re having a great time doing it. Home beer brewing is a creative hobby with added benefits – Great Tasting Beer! It’s also easy, fun, and affordable.

Getting the beer making kit and supplies that are necessary to make beer at home is easy. There are so many different kits available. Simply search the web and you’ll have your pick of kits. Because there are so many home brew kits available, you should have no problem finding one that fits what you are looking for.

I have included a link below to the kit I use. It came with everything I needed to start my home brewing "experiment." With my kit, I make batch after batch of great tasting beer right from my kitchen, no muss, no fuss (clean and easy for those whom might not understand my vernacular). In as little as two weeks, I have two gallons of beer.

These kits can run anywhere from as little as forty dollars to well over one hundred dollars or more. Some make the process very simple, like my kit, and some kits are much more involved. My kit, and the kits that I bought for my brother and father-in-law, cost $39.95 each.

Beer making is more fun than you might think. One of the more enjoyable aspects of home beer making is the ability to try different styles of beer. There are so many different styles and tastes that a person can make with their beer making kits, such as light beer, dark beer, bitter beer, sweet beer, etc. Most beer kit companies offer a variety of recipes. The kit I use has over 170 different recipes. This variety makes it easy to experiment with all the different kinds and tastes of beer that are out there. My brother, father-in-law, and I have each tried different recipes. We then got together to sample each others batch (any reason to get together to drink beer). It’s been so much fun, in fact, that we are now getting friends involved as well and their getting their own kits.

If you have been thinking about making your own beer at home, I highly encourage you to get a kit and start. My experience has been great. Let me say it again, home beer brewing is easy, fun, and affordable. Give it a try.

Author: Jeff Gilbert

Thanks for taking the time to read this article, I hope you found it useful. If you would like more information on the world’s most popular home beer kit, and the kit that I have so much fun using, please visit: http://www.homebrewery.weebly.com

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Three Simple Steps For Home Beer Making That Anyone Can Follow

Making beer at home uses the same chemistry and principals that a micro or commercial brewery would use. Follow these simple steps with slight modifications for your beer kit, and you’ll be drinking home brew in 2 weeks! Typically home made beer is brewed in batches of 2-5 gallons at a time. You can start your fermenting process tonight, let the wort ferment for a week and then bottle this first batch. that very same night, you can brew up another wort to start fermenting. In this way, you can always have fresh new brews ready to go for bottling and drinking.

The first step is brewing the wort. This is can be done entirely from scratch on your stovetop, or you can buy a starter can of "pre-hopped" malt (more about this later) to speed the process and make it a little less messy. At the end of this step, you’ll have the foundation of your future brew. Using a sterilized scoop or spoon, pour a little into a glass and let it cool down. Take a sip…can you taste the future?

The next step is to transfer the wort into the fermenter. A fermenter has a few pieces to it that you can assemble separately, or buy as a ready to assemble kit like the Mr. Beer fermenter. The fermeter is a 2-5 gallon glass or plastic container with a vented lid preventing air borne bacteria and mold spores from entering the liquid brew, but also allowing the gasses that are produced escape from the fermenter so that it doesn’t build up gas pressure and explode

Step 3 is bottling your beer! It takes place after a week or so of fermentation during which time the sugars and yeast from the original wort have run their course, producing alcohol as a byproduct. The higher the sugar content in the wort, the more alcohol will be produced. However, at this stage, the beer is "flat" with no bubbles…remember that we had to vent the gasses from the fermenter during the previous step.

When we bottle the beer, a small amount of sugar is added to each bottle and the fermented wort is siphoned off into each bottle which is then capped and allowed to rest for another week or more. During this time the remaining yeast produces more carbon dioxide bubbles…these are the bubbles that are released when the bottle is opened producing that nice foamy head and helping a fresh cold beer feel great when it hits your lips and tongue.

Author: Casey McCoy

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