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 Did you know?...
It's quite simple to make your own wine at home, we've detailed a few steps that may help you get started. |
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Making Home Brew Beer
A step by step guide to making the perfect pint of beer at home.
Please be sure to steralise all equipment first. |
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| Step 1. Firstly, boil the kettle, you will need to do this a few times to get about 5 1/2 pints of hot water. The hot water will help dissolve the contents of the can which is a bit like syrup. Open the can of beer and empty the content of the can into your fermenting bucket/container. |
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| Step 2. Mix it all up. |
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| Step 3. Taking a reading. If it's not done, leave it another 2 days, then take another reading. |
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| Step 4. You will need to add about 2 1/2 ounces of sugar into a 25 litre barrell. Step 5, tells you how to evenly mix this into your beer barrell when it's ready to be transferred from the fermenting bucket to your barrell (or glass bottles). |
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| Step 5. Syphon about 1/2 pint of beer into a measuring jug. Then add the sugar in step 4, and mix, the sugar may not all disolve, but when this is added to the mixture again, it does help distribute an even amount. This solution is added to your barrell perhaps whilst you are syphoning from the fermenting bin. (see step 6.) |
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Step 6. Sypon all the contents except the sedement at the bottom of the fermenting bucket into the barrell, now's a good time to add the sugar solution in the previous steps to ensure even distribution of the sugar. |
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| Step 7. Careful when you syphone the beer from the fermenting bin not to get the sedement from the bottom, also becafeful the beer in the barrell doesn't froth over near finishing. If this does froth over the top, leave it 10 mins before continuing the syphoning. Be careful when stopping and starting the syphon as not to blow liquid back into the beer and disturb the sedement, if this occurs, you have a few choices, first is to throw it away (it wasn't much anyway perhaps), alternatively, leave it again for a few days and hope it clears enough to syphon again, or you could add a clearing agent, this may help speed up the process but you would be talking of a few days to do this. So care with the syphon pipe is needed at all times. It's the syphon pipe that causes most of my mistakes :( |
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Step 8. Done. The question is can you leave it long enough to fully mature? 4 weeks is what you need to aim for, any sooner and you just waste your efforts.
Let it mature and it will repay you your patience. You could also add Co2 after you notice the gas in the barrell is low or non existant. |
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