Yeast is not only responsible for the conversion of sugar to alcohol. It also plays a major impact on flavor. When you are writing a recipe it’s vital to pick the right yeast for the style of beer you’re trying to make. When you’re standing in a homebrewing store and looking at the yeast fridge it can be a bit intimidating. And one of the first questions you might have is what the difference is between dry and liquid yeast. Does one make a better beer? Is dry yeast only for beginners?
Category: Brew Your Own
We provide you with simple and easy recipes for making homemade beer, cider, and wine. Together with the best tips to achieve nice boozy results.
Making Your Own Beer – Brew In A Bag
Brewing in a bag is one of the best ways for a new brewer to start all-grain brewing. You don’t need a lot of additional equipment. It doesn’t take a lot of space and it’s easy as making a giant batch of tea. If you think it’s time for moving on from extract brewing but don’t really know where to start, brew in a bag is a great way to do it.
How To Package Your Beer – Bottle Or Keg?
Brewing beer at home is not finished while your beer is nice and cozy in your fermenter. After the fermentation has been completed you still need to package it. There are two main methods of packaging your beer. It’s either bottle or keg. When we talk about these two methods we often distinguish them by the way we infuse CO2 into the drink to create the fizz we all crave.
Making Beer At Home – Extract Brewing
Making your first batch of beer can be stressful and this simple guide will make it easy and fun. Be ready to make mistakes since we have all been there. Making beer is supposed to be a fun and interesting hobby so don’t worry too much. There are things that you should and shouldn’t do. But making your own beer is more than following a recipe. Soon with time, you will get the experience and skills that will make all the difference in how your final product will taste.
Brewing Your Own Beer – Introduction
Beer is an alcoholic beverage made from fermenting malted grains, using a special type of brewer’s yeast and hops with the addition of water. So there are four main ingredients in beer, malted grains, water, yeast, and hops. With these four ingredients, you can make beer. The story is simple as that.
Making Beer At Home – Basic Ingredients
There are four main ingredients in beer. Water, malted grains, hops, and yeast. Each of these ingredients has different parts and you need to know them before you start on your homebrewing journey.
How To Make Pineapple Tepache
In this recipe, you will learn how to make delicious fermented pineapple beverages with just 3 ingredients you probably have in your kitchen. Tepache is a fermented pineapple beverage that originates from Mexico. It’s usually made from the peel of pineapples and sweetened with either piloncillo or brown sugar and seasoned with cinnamon sticks or cloves.
Making Apple Cider At Home – Easy Recipe
If you’re only a beginner in the homebrewing community it can be very confusing in choosing your first recipe. That is why this is the perfect place to start. When compared to beer, ciders are very beginner-friendly and simple to make. Not to mention that they taste delicious.
How To Make Ginger Beer
Ginger beer is a naturally fermented beverage with only 3 ingredients, ginger, water, and sugar. The fermentation occurs from the bacteria and yeast found in ginger. Lactobacillus is found on all types of food as is the same bacteria that gave us the ability to make tepache. While most supermarket ginger beers are nonalcoholic, the version we are making today has a tiny bit of alcohol. Just under 1%.
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