As mentioned on the Basic Homebrew Recipe post, making beer can be as easy or as complex as you like.
Personally, I prefer the easier options – buy the premade “beer kit” in a can, add sugar, water, some other bits and pieces, wait, bottle, wait some more, drink beer.
Here is another “beer kit” homebrew recipe – based on the Coopers Dark Ale.
Ingredients :
- 1 can Coopers Dark Ale kit.
- 1 kilogram Coopers Brew Enhancer .
Optional Ingredients (one or more of these can be used) :
- 1-2 teaspoons Ground Cinnamon.
- 1-2 tablespoons Grated Ginger Root ( a 2 cm piece will do the trick).
Method:
(Note – Don’t forget to sterilise everything first !)
Step 1 Dissolve Dark Ale and Brew Enhancer in 2 liters of hot water in your fermenter/barrel.
Step 2 Add to this solution one or more of the optional ingredients. This concentrated mixture is known as the “wort”.
Step 3 Add cold water to the wort until it reaches the 23 litre mark, and stir vigorously.
Step 4 With wort temperature between 21-27 C, sprinkle yeast over the surface and mix in.
Step 5 Allow your beer to ferment – allow a week, maybe up to 10 days, depending on the room temperature.
Step 6 When two readings on your hydrometer (a little floating device that looks like a thermometer) are the same over 24 hours, strain out solid ingredients.
Step 7 Bottle your homemade beer. Don’t forget to sterilise each and every beer bottle, and add a teaspoon of sure to each bottle.
Step 8 Leave the bottles upright for more than six weeks.
Step 9 Chill, then drink.
Step 10 Repeat as necessary.
Note :
As far as the optional ingredients are concerned, a friend of a friend has told me that he often throws in one whole piece of fruit into many of his homebrew beers – an apple, an orange, a peach, a banana, etc – peel and all after the stiring mentioned in Step 3.
Thanks,
Matthew – http://www.FortyBeers.com
P.S. – If you need some further video instructions on brewing your own beer, then Click Here .
Tags: Ale, Beer Recipes, Brew Beer
