Good Equipment Makes Great Beer

Brewing your own beer can be fun and exhilarating however if you don’t have the right Beer Brewing Equipment then the entire process can become frustrating and down right maddening. Certainly nothing shows off your manliness more then offering your bros a cold fresh pint of your very own home-brewed beer.

Making your own beer is not as difficult as most people think, you just need the right beer brewing equipment a set of instructions and you are on your way. Beer brewing equipment can range from expensive multi thousand dollar pots and kettles that the professional big boys buy or you can buy a simple home brewing kit and get started right from home.

Below is a list of the beer brewing equipment needed to get your first batch of fresh ale or lager started.

Glass Carboy: 5 gallon container used in the fermentation process of your beer.

Carboy Stopper: rubber stopper placed in the opening of a carboy to lock the air out of the carboy. It is important to keep bacteria and certain gases out of your beer while in the fermentation process.

Air Lock: An air lock goes into the carboy stopper and allows the fermentation gases (carbon dioxide) to escape your fermenting beer without letting gases into the carboy.

Brew Kettle: A large stainless steel pot used in the boiling (brewing) process of your beer.

Funnel: The funnel is used in moving your beer from your brew kettle to the carboy helping to prevent spills.

Racking Cane: A racking cane is an L shaped hard tube that allows you to move liquid from the carboy to the bottling bucket while helping to reduce the amount of sentiment passed.

Tubing: The tubing comes in different sizes and is used for transferring your beer from brew kettle to carboy and carboy to bottling bucket.

Bottling Bucket: The bottling bucket is used in the final preparation of the beer making process right before bottling the beer.

Bottles: Beer bottles are used to hold the finished beer product. Beer bottles can range in size and color. A typical beer bottles is either 12 or 22 oz.

Beer Bottle Caps: Are the caps that are placed on the beer bottles to help preserver your beer.

Bottle Capper: Is a simple tool used to cap your bottles with the beer bottle caps.

Hydrometer: The hydrometer measures how far into the fermentation process your beer is by finding the gravity of the beer. The gravity tells you how much sugar has converted in to alcohol.

Besides the equipment you need good ingredients to make a stealthy beer. Below is a list of the ingredients used in creating a great beer. There are many recipes but you will almost always find these ingredients in every great recipe.

Water: 90% of beer is composed of water, it is important to have good quality clean water when brewing beer.

Barley: is a cereal grain that is not very useful in making flower. However it is very good in making beer. There are 3 different kinds of barley that can fluctuate in quality based on where in the world it is harvested.

Hops: is the flower that gives beer its wonderful taste and smell.

Yeast: is a fungus used to ferment your beer by turning the sugars into alcohol.

Your beer brewing equipment needs to be sanitized so whenever you decide it is time to start a new batch of beer then you need to make sure that everything is clean and sanitized. The quickest way to ruining a beer is by not sanitizing your beer brewing equipment and letting bacteria destroy your batch. This can be frustrating and a huge waste of time.

Physical Sanitization: The process of sanitizing your beer using steam, hot water and not chemically based sanitization.

Alkaline-Based Sanitizers: Using bleaches, chlorine and other alkaline based sanitizers.

Acid-Based Sanitizers: Are acid based sanitizers such as hydrogen peroxide used to sanitizing your beer brewing equipment.

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