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Brewing Essentials
- Beer Making Ingredients: Yeast, Malted barely or barley extract, hops
- Wine and cider ingredients: Fruit juices, yeasts (natural or added)
- Common supplies: Primary fermentation vessels, carboys, fermentation locks
- Sanitation: Important for preventing contamination of the fermentation process
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Links and Info to Help You Make Your Own Beer
Home brewing, or the art of making small amounts of artisan alcoholic drinks by fermentation with yeast, is a satisfying hobby. You can make those types of beverages you enjoy the most, and experiment with ingredient combinations that optimize the qualities you desire. You can change the ingredients in a multitude of ways to make a customized beverage. This site gives you the essentials for learning how to make beer, and the links we provide direct you to various expert pages, suppliers and Mahalo pages that will help you make the best wine or beer possible. There is also a Mahalo page specifically devoted to wine making. -
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About Hops
There are two general categories of hops.- Bittering hops - the bitterness comes from the alpha acids in the lupulins. When boiled, a reaction occurs that creates bitterness and adds a natural preservative to the beer.
- Aroma hops - have a lower alpha acid content and are used primarily for their fragrance.
Hops come in different forms from suppliers:
- Pellet Hops - hop flowers are shredded and compressed at harvest. Compression helps prevent oxidation and it releases the flavoring from the lupulin glands.
- Hop Plugs - flowers pressed into ½ oz. plugs, generally used as aroma hops and for adding to the secondary fermentor.
- Whole Flower Hops - used for hop bouquet in special recipes.
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Mahalo Answers for Homebrewing
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Have any of you every tried homebrewing as a hobby? Tell me about your experience. 1 AnswerI answered in your other question, but will answer this one as well. Homebrewing is a great hobby if you're interested in making the freshest beer possible that... read more -
If you have every made your own beer(s), tell me about your experience. 3 AnswersI homebrewed my own beer for about three years before my first kid came along, which took all my money and free time ;). My favorite type of beers are English a... read more
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Why did beer makers originally use hops in their brews? 4 Answersapparently hops is the bittering/perservation agent in beer. below is an excerpt from http://www.brewersconnection.com/popup/whatarehops.htm But why are Hops ... read more
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How many styles of beer have you tasted? Which do you like best? Please list in your order of preference. 4 AnswersIf I haven't tried all styles, it's not through lack of trying. I guess the actual number of styles would depend upon how you classified them. I'm not good enou... read more
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