The official answer is going to be this: YOU CAN'T.
Yeast is an essential part of beer, and it's what converts the sugars into alcohol, and in bottle-conditioned beer provides the carbonation.
Technically though, you could skip the fermentation stage and cheat with grain-neutral spirits.
Here's what you would have to do:
Get your beer ingredients...specialty grains based on what style of beer you like, and some hops. Get a homebrewer to help you with this.
If you go with extra grains and steep them at a lower temperature (say maybe 125-140F...the ideal conversion temp is about 153F, so you want to stay well below this) for about an hour or so then not as much of the grain starch will convert to sugars, but the grains will still impart some flavor and color.
Instead of pitching your yeast into a fermenter with your wort/unfermented beer, you would pitch in a grain-neutral spirit like vodka or pure grain alcohol.
(A typical batch of homebrewed beer is 5 gallons, or 640oz. As a typical beer is 5% ABV, a quick estimate says 32oz of alcohol added will work...at 200 proof. As most of your vodka will be around 80 proof, that's 2.5 liters of vodka you'll have to add to make up for the work that the yeast would have done.)
In order to make up for the carbonation, you need a couple things: a tap system and an empty 5-gallon keg. Empty kegs are easy, old soda kegs are 5-gallon and cheap (around $35 used). You force-carbonate by dropping the temp on the beer-like mixture to around 40F, then you hook up your CO2 line. Turn the pressure up to about 15lbs and let it sit for a couple of days. Your mixture will carbonate.
It will produce something not totally unlike beer, possibly a little sweeter than you are used to, but shouldn't be undrinkable.
Good luck with that, and if you want more detailed information on it then email me, or if you try it let me know how it turns out.
2006-08-16 03:27:10
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answered by jkk109 4
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That would be Kool Aid, seeing as how there's nothing to consume the fermentable sugars in the wort. OR you make your wort, add alcohol to it (everclear comes to mind) and force carbonate it. Why bother? Yeast is God's gift to humanity...
2006-08-24 00:12:02
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answered by mark3200 1
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that would be water. you cannot make beer without yeast and the fermentation process.
2006-08-19 22:18:16
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answered by Biloxi Beach 11 3
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No such thing.
2006-08-17 00:48:35
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answered by Trid 6
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I do not thank you can. But you need to check on the Internet first.
2006-08-22 18:11:10
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answered by Teddy Bear 4
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Not posible, That will make you fat, but that's what makes it good.
2006-08-23 13:57:22
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answered by Mari 4
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use sugar instead
2006-08-22 21:38:19
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answered by nintendogsmaster 2
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no,sorry
2006-08-22 20:12:39
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answered by Anonymous
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