Homemade beer?

Question

How do you make it?

Answer 1

you can go to yahoo and type in homemade beer and get lots of different recipes for it.

Answer 2

I make homemade beer. Here's the basics:

Ingredients:
-Water
-Malted Barley
-Hops
-Yeast

For beginners like me, I get malted barley in the form of syrupy malt extract, or powdered dry malt extract. These can be found at the nearest homebrewing shop along with hops and beer yeast. You'll also need some special equipment from a homebrew shop. Many sell a beginner's beer making kit for about $70. For an example, see the following link:

http://morebeer.com/view_product/15909/102142

You can see the basic steps for how it's put together by watching the episode of Good Eats, called "Amber Waves" in the following link:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2852527078421700337

I'll sum it up in 10 basic steps:
1. Sanitize everything that will touch the beer, so germs (other than your yeast) don't get in it.
2. Mix your malt extract with some water in a big pot and boil it for an hour. You'll add hops to the boiling pot at certain points during this hour.
3. Cool down the hot mixture.
4. Pour it into your plastic fermentation vessel (either a plastic bucket or a big glass jug called a "carboy") and add enough water to get you to the right amount. Most homebrew recipes are for 5 gallons. (About 2 cases of beer)
5. Add the yeast to your mixture, and let it ferment for a week or two.
6. Mix the finished beer with a certain amount of sugar.
7. Siphon the beer into bottles and clamp bottle caps on them. (You can use empty clean bottles from beer you bought at the store.)
8. Let the bottles sit for a week or two to get fizzy.
9. Drink your beer.
10. Repeat.

For internet radio shows, podcasts, and forums that help you make homemade beer, you should check out The Brewing Network at the following link:

http://www.TheBrewingNetwork.com

Answer 3

Beers are normally made from malt extracts, and products that you'll have to go to a homebrewing store to get (carboys, fermenters, airlocks, funnels, yeasts, etc.). It's not as simple as just grabbing some stuff from your mom's kitchen, mixing a few things and getting wasted that night. It takes time and effort. Not to say it's impossible - go to your library and get a book on homebrewing, and then make a trip to your homebrewing store and get the supplies you need. There are also kits you can buy, but it's more fun to do it yourself from a recipe from scratch, not with a kit.

Depending on whether you want a quality beverage to share with others, or whether you just want to get wasted, things change. If you just want to get wasted, forget making beer. Search online for a cheap, easy balloon wine, or check my other answers to wine questions where I've posted the procedure. You actually can grab a few items from your grocery store/kitchen and using welch's juice and a few other small items can make a decent wine that will get you drunk in about two-three weeks. Serious winemakers will argue this, but I did it in highschool all the time and it worked.

Good luck.

Answer 4

I actually tried that once but somehow I managed to screw it up. I was living in Florida at the time and broke as heck. Making twenty gallons of brew seemed like a good idea to me and my friends but I guess we somehow got the mixtures all screwed up trying to make so much at once. To make a long story short the lid on the drum we were using blew off one day and soaked my kitchen with this foul smelling goo that didn't taste anything like beer. Come to think of it I'm not sure we were supposed to seal up the drum at all -- we were drunk when we read the directions and mixed up all the stuff.
I guess I don't really have an answer for you after all -- if you have read my 360 blogs you would know all about my life and why I sometimes don't make sense.

Answer 5

PIck up a copy of 'The new Complete Joy of Homebrewing.' It'll explain everything.