Homemade beer?

Question

ok, ive been looking all over the internet and all ive seen is bs on how to make beer. i want to make a SIMPLE beer and i need to knwo the correct proportions of ingredients and procedure. I DO NOT want to make 30 gallons i want a SMALL recipe. Thank you for your time : )

sorry for not clarifying but i want a cider based beer

Answer 1

I started by brewing 1 gallon batches.

For a real simple brew, cook 4 to 5 cups cracked barley for every gallon you plan to make.

Heat the mash (water and grains) to 140F, and keep at that temp for approx. 45 min.

Strain out the grains and then rinse them by sprinkling with cold water.

Add your hops (2 ounces is a good number) to the wort (unfermented beer) and leave at 120f. for 15 min.

Strain again.

I dissolved about a cup of brown sugar in the wort at this point.

Cool to 75F, then add yeast.

Mix vigorously, the more air you get into it the better.

Cover, stick in a dark corner, keep the room temp at 70 and let ferment.

After about a week you should have a good layer of yeast at the bottom for your brew, siphon the beer off into a new container and let it age.
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It's a terribly rudimentary recipe but then brewing beer isn't actually all that hard once you know the steps. There are lots of types of grains, lots of hops, and a good number of yeast strains, any will do.

One misconception I had when I started brewing was that beer goes bad quickly. The truth is that it's much like wine, take care of it and it will get better.

Answer 2

The smallest I've ever seen made is 5 gallons. That is not as much as it sounds as you lose a gallon to barque (sludge that tastes like do-do.) 4 gallons is about 32- 16 ounce bottles.

Just take the larger recipes for 30 gallons and devide them down to the size batch you want to make. A simple recipe will be brewers yeast, barley, hops, malt and sugar (no rice.)

Answer 3

Beer is good for you.The 21st amandment is our hero.

"The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed."
"The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited."
"This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amandment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitutiion, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress."

Answer 4

My friend makes his own beer. It sounds very simple. I will shortly be including his 'make your own beer' advice on my website, so come, sign up for the newsletter and I'll mail you when it goes live in the next couple of weeks.

I'm going to include pictures and very easy step-by-step instructions. He says it's extremely straightforward.