{"id":3,"date":"2007-05-03T22:44:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T02:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2007-06-21T22:00:03","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T02:00:03","slug":"how-to-make-beer-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/2007\/05\/03\/how-to-make-beer-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make beer: part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_0278.jpg' title='Brewing'><img src='http:\/\/mybeerquest.com\/beerlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_0278.jpg' alt='Brewing' \/><\/a><br \/>\nBeer is made from 4 major ingredients.<br \/>\n1 Water<br \/>\n2 Malt<br \/>\n3 Hops<br \/>\n4 Yeast<\/p>\n<p>and 3 miner ingredients<br \/>\n1 Gypsum<br \/>\n2 Irish Moss<br \/>\n3 corn sugar<\/p>\n<p>lets go over them one at a time<br \/>\nIngredient 1 Water.<br \/>\nWater is a very important part of the beer. The reason is, it is the main ingredient. In other words if your water taste bad it will probably reflect in the beer. So you want to get a pure water source. If you want to use tap water it is recommend that you boil it since most tap water contains chlorine. I personally use Yosemite bottled water.<br \/>\nIngredient 2 Malt.<br \/>\nMalt is what the yeast makes into alcohol.<br \/>\nThere many types &#038; varieties of malt. Traditionally malted barley is used in brewing.<br \/>\nMalt comes in 3 forms.<br \/>\n1 Whole Grain Malt<br \/>\n2 Liquid Malt extract<br \/>\n3 Dry Malt<br \/>\nAny one of these or any combination of these can be used to brew.<br \/>\nusually a beginner brewer will use a combination of grain &#038; dry or liquid. Grain only is considered advanced, it takes longer and more equipment.<br \/>\nIngredient 3 Hops.<br \/>\nHops serve 3 purposes<br \/>\n1 it is a Preservative<br \/>\n2 it is a flavoring<br \/>\n3 it is an aromatic agent<br \/>\nyou may also here about bittering hops in some recipes. we will go over that later.<br \/>\nThere are many varieties of hops.<br \/>\nHops also come in 3 forms<br \/>\n1 Loose or Whole Hops<br \/>\n2 Palletized or Powdered Hops<br \/>\n3 Hop Extract or Hop oil<br \/>\nfor the most part in Home Brewing Palletized Hops are used.<br \/>\nIngredient 4 Yeast<br \/>\nYeast too comes in may varieties<br \/>\nthere are only 2 forms o Yeast<br \/>\n1 Liquid<br \/>\n2 Dry<br \/>\nLiquid is fairly new to Home brewing, it is faster and easier to use than dry and I think delivers a much better result. Dry yeast has some advantages too it is cheaper and it seems to keep better.<\/p>\n<p>Thats all of the major ingredients. Some recipes may call for other things like fruit, whet or oats etc those are specific to cretin recipes.<\/p>\n<p>Miner ingredients<\/p>\n<p>Miner Ingredient 1 Gypsum<br \/>\nThis is to treat the water. Most recipes will call for between third of a table spoon and a table spoon for five gallons. five gallons is the avenge Home Brew batch.<br \/>\nMiner Ingredient 2 Irish Moss<br \/>\nthis collects proteins so they do not float on the to making something called chill haze. Add about a table spoon during the last 10 or 15 minutes of the boil.<br \/>\nMiner Ingredient 3 corn sugar<br \/>\nThis is added to the beer just before bottling to kick start the yeast.<br \/>\nCorn sugar is used instead of cane sugar, because it dose not the taste.<br \/>\nbefore brewing came to America they did not have have corn so they used other sweeteners like malt.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beer is made from 4 major ingredients. 1 Water 2 Malt 3 Hops 4 Yeast and 3 miner ingredients 1 Gypsum 2 Irish Moss 3 corn sugar lets go over them one at a time Ingredient 1 Water. Water is a very important part of the beer. The reason is, it is the main ingredient. 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