Sep
09
2007
Straight-up home brewing the way I see it
Posted on 12:00, September 9th, 2007 by Guest writer
While Ron and Al take a little break, please enjoy this guest post from Adam at Beer Bits 2. Today is also Bryan’s Adam’s birthday.
If you are reading this website you should try brewing you own beer. Why? What better way to understand beer? Be a witness to water, malt, hops and yeast being transformed into one of the oldest life sustaining foods in the world.
Are you ready to brew your own beer? Are you scared? Are you intimidated? What’s that you say? You don’t know what a wort chiller is? You’re afraid to make something that sucks? Me too. Everybody has to start somewhere. It is time to start here and now. Brew your own beer. Make mistakes. Make your own mistakes and do it right now.
You might not know what at hydrometer is. You might might not know the difference between extract and all-grain brewing. You might think that there are hordes of home brewers that know more than you. Well I’ve got news for you. It ain’t rocket science. People have been making this stuff for thousands of years. Sometimes we make things more complicated than they need to be. I mean really. Do you really need a refractometer? Do you really need a wort chiller? No. Hell, there are guys out there brewing beer in wooden troughs in the ground. Doesn’t sound all too complicated to me 
All you need is patience. No, really. Anybody can go out there and buy a basic brewing kit, but, the most important skill a home brewer can possess is patience. Do you have the patience to…
- wait for a couple gallons of water to boil
- wait for the right time to put your hops in
- wait for the boil to be done
- wait for the wort to cool down
- wait for the yeast to start fermenting
- wait for the primary fermentation to finish
- wait for the secondary fermentation (optional)
- wait for the bottle conditioning
- wait for your beer to chill in the fridge before you drink it
Most of what you do is wait. What is my point? Brewing beer is easy. The yeast does most of the work Why not give it try? I’ll even help you do it. Send me an email and I’ll help you get started. beerbits2@gmail.com.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with any home brew supply shop that will make money off of you buying ingredients/equipment. I am just some guy who thinks that 9 out of 10 households should brew their own beer 
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Thanks for asking me to be a guest poster.
BTW it’s my birthday today not Bryan’s! Heheh!
D’oh! Sorry about that. Fixed.
“I am just some guy who thinks that 9 out of 10 households should brew their own beer”
What a fantastic statement. I agree wholeheartedly. 9 times out of 10 even if you stuff something up it’ll still be drinkable and much nicer than 80% of beers on the supermarket shelves.
Brew on!
I see I found a kindred spirit.
I’ve been brewing on and off for over 10 years and half of it was from somebody else’s recipes. I’ve only had two batches I wouldn’t drink and maybe three that were not great and scores of others that disappeared too quickly.
It’s kinda like cooking. Sometimes it isn’t edible, most of the time it is, but, once you get comfortable you can really perfect it.
But the sanitising. Dear God, the sanitising!
Heheh…well there are some things you can’t get away from. Even that becomes habit though. You work out your own little system. Kinda like learning what to set your burner on when you’re grilling steak. You learn what works for you given the tools you have.
I haven’t brewed in a while but when I did it, I really enjoyed the process. It is amazing how fundamentally the same all beers are, and how many magnificent flavors you can create with the right combinations. If we put as much emphasis on brewing as we did on cooking, imagine the new kinds of brews we’d be coming up with on a daily basis!
Wait… it’s Bryan Adams’ birthday!? I thought he was 18 till he died! ZING!
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