![]() ![]() ![]() Once the malt is in there, wait for the pot to come back to a boil. As long as you’re really stirring it good, you probably don’t need to turn off the heat, so just go for it. Dump in your malt while stirring like crazy. Do you like sandwiches? Make a sandwich you’ve got some time to kill.Īlright, so you’ve just finished your PB&J and the water in your pot has started to boil. Put your pot on the stove and crank up the heat to high. Dump it out and pour in some fresh stuff. You see your pot full of water? Your dog was probably drinking out of that while you were at the brew store. Do you feel like doing that? No? Fine with me, let’s move on. It’ll give you instructions on how to rehydrate it. So, you’ve got your pot, your water, and your ingredients, what’s next? Step 3: Making Your Beerįirst, read that packet of yeast. If he says anything just insult his beard (I assure you, he’ll have a beard) and walk out head held high. The clerk will probably scoff at you for getting these, but screw that guy you don’t need to impress him. One or two of those dry packets will be fine. This will probably be Cascade, which is always a good bet.īefore you leave the store, get some yeast. Get two ounces of the cheapest hops pellets you see. ![]() I’m not going to be more specific here, so follow your heart. The more malt you get the stronger and/or sweeter your beer will be. ![]() You like lighter beers? Get lighter extract. You probably should have gotten these already, but it’s okay, I’m here to help. As long as it’s mostly clear and it doesn’t smell like anything weird, it’ll work. But we’re just making “beer” today, and we’re going to use tap water. They want you to make pretentious and upscale spelled-in-capital-letters “BEER”. They’ll say you need distilled water or that you need to treat your water with any number of chemicals. People will talk about fluoride and mineral content. I’m going to annoy a lot of brewers here and tell you to use tap water. Now that you have your pot, you need water. Amazon has a 5 gallon pot on sale for $39.99, which if you are going to buy a new pot is about as cheap as you’ll ever find one. Make sure it’s not rusty and if it’s got a finish, make sure the finish isn’t chipping too much and you’re good. Three gallons is really the smallest size you want. Yard sales and thrift stores will have them they’re everywhere, and they’re cheap. Remember those old black-speckled stewpots your grandma had? Try and find one of those or a close approximation. Large Kettle (A Big Spagetti Pot Will Do).Ingredients/Materials Needed (with links to purchase if necessary): Getting Started With Your Cheap & Easy Beer Sometimes that’s all we want, sometimes that’s all we have time for, sometimes that’s all the effort we care to exert. Today we’re brewing the kind of homebrew that makes people emphatically say, “Yeah, this beer is alright”. You won’t sing the praises of this beer from the rooftops, but you won’t pour it out either. Today we’re just making plain old drink-it-while-watching-football beer. Luckily for us, that’s not what we’re doing today. Brewing great beer though making a truly excellent, transcendent, never drink anything else ever again beer, that is incredibly hard. Brewing drinkable beer is as easy as turning on a stove and remembering to turn it off sometime in the near future. A lot of people think brewing beer is hard. The first people who made beer did it by accident thousands of years ago, so how hard could it be? Brewing beer is mostly boiling water and waiting patiently while something else (yeast) does all the work. We’re not going to buy anything we don’t have to, we’re going to ignore best practices, and we’re still going to make some pretty good beer.įirst a caveat Making beer is easy. The following is a guide to absolute bare bones brewing. So you want to brew as easy as possible, and as cheaply as possible. ![]()
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