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This is a step by step guide to brew beer from scratch using the raw ingredients. The method explained here is a "full mash" meaning that the extract ...
The main kit you'll need is a container to heat the liquid in(metal one in the picture), another large bucket/bin type container to transfer the liqui...
These are all available online or at your local brew shop. This is a "London Pride" recipe from Dave Line book "Brewing Beers Like Those You Buy" by D...
Make sure all equipment is Sterilised. This will stop bacteria and wild yeasts messing up the beer. I used Sodium Metabisulphate but I read that a chl...
Add 3 Imperial gallons (not US!) or 15 litres of water to the mash tun/boiler. The water is then treated depending on whether you live in a Hard or So...
Put your "Sparging bag" over the top of the mash tun. This will stop the malt touching the element in the boiler. Turn on the boiler and start to rais...
Stir in the correct amount of both the Crushed Pale Malt and the Crushed Crystal Malt(gives colour). Keep stiring as the malt is added. Keeping the te...
Open up the tap and drain the Wort into the Fermenting bucket.
With the Boiler tap still open keep topping up the Boiler with mains water which has been heated to slightly hotter than the mash, rinsing throught th...
As per ingredients in Step 2.
Pour the Wort from the Fermenting bin back into the Boiler and add all the Fuggles hops and just 2oz or 60g of the Goldings hops. Boil the mixture and...
Switch off the heat and add half oz or 15g of Goldings hops. Leave for 15 minutes for the hops to soak in.
Peg the cleaned and sterile cloth used earlier for sparging over the top of the fermenting bucket. This will prevent the grain and hop debris from ent...
Top up the fermenting bin with cold water up to 5 Imperial gallons or 25 Lltres. At this point you can take a Hydrometer reading. This will be the ori...
Once the wort has cooled to about room temperature you can add the yeast. It can get a better start if you cool a pint of the wort in a seperate glass...
The beer started to visibly ferment about and 1h 30mins after the yeast was added. This picture was taken after about 6 hours. The fermentation will ...
You have to take the dark head of yeast off, or it sinks back into the beer and makes it taste too bitter. It then carries on fermenting with a lighte...
This was taken after around 24 hours. Hydrometer reading taken at 1020.
After about 4 or 5 days the beer should be fully fermented. The gravity should read 1012. Use the syphon tube to Syphon the beer from the beer to the ...
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Prepare the finings(gelatine) and the last of the hops to add to the barrel. That's half oz or 15mg of gelatine mixed with water in a cup. The finings...
Add hops and finings (Gelatine) and leave for 7 days.
Drain the beer back into the fermienting bin. This will ensure the hops added are filtered out of the beer.
Sterelize the bottles and leave upside down to drain.
You will need a gadget like this to put the bottle tops on
Add half a teaspoon of demerera sugar into each bottle. Use a funnel will make it easier. I used (15x) 500ml beer bottles. Make sure they are proper b...
Syphon the beer back into the barrel. You need to prime the barrel with 2oz or 60g of Demerara sugar (less if you used some of your beer for bottles l...
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