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Monday, October 4, 2010

Beer - The Best Way To Make It Yourself

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By Reinaldo Lewis

Home brewing is a huge industry in Europe and elsewhere, but it seems that it is just in huge demand in England. There people all started to brew their own wine and beer pretty early, until it turned into a boom in the early eighties. Everybody jumped on the bandwagon and England became a country full of specialist on how to create your own alcoholic beverages at home. All over the place stores went up that offered equipment and products for brewing your special beer.



It does not really surprise when one takes into consideration the pub opening hrs, which had been very much limited until the mid - nineties. Back in the times belonging to the World War I, the House of Parliament decided to handle the high casualty rates on the home front. Too most people who worked inside armament industries blew themselves and their colleagues up accidentally, not working with the desired care when building hand grenades for the reason that they were either inebriated or suffering from a hangover. Really the only thing the politicians could consider at the time was to limit severely the opening hours of bars, clubs and dinning establishments. So if people planned to have a drink past 11:00 p.m., they had to be resourceful. That's why it appeared that everyone had a barrel with some type of fermenting fluid at home, waiting patiently for the beer for being ready.

It requires little cash, not much time and a little space to generate some very good beer at home. Most people start the process in their kitchens and once they've mixed each of the ingredients into the barrel they put it in some quiet corner to allow it ferment. Beer is created, in its purest form, from merely four ingredients: water, malt, hops and yeast. The truth is, Germany had a so called purity rule which the government had to scrap to be able to align local laws with European laws, which usually allowed breweries to add chemical components to the beer, some for preservation, some for coloring. It isn't required to make use of some extra clean or purified water to generate beer, any tap water will in fact do provided it does not have a high mineral content.

The following of the 4 components is what is called the 'heart of beer', the malt. It's the product of grains like wheat or rye germinating. In itself it is the catalyst for your yeast, but more importantly in provides the flavor and the color for the beer. Within the south of England, in particular in Kent, you will discover huge hop farms. Hops are bitter tasting flowers that give the beer its herbal smell. Consider these small flowers as the seasoning for your beer, as oregano may be the seasoning for a spaghetti sauce. Persons are obviously familiar with yeast, that's utilized in making bread. It's a single cell organism that needs sugar in order to exist. Mixing it in using the dough for bread for example, this organism looks for and finds the sugar, eats it and multiplies during the process. As a by product there is certainly alcohol and carbon dioxide, that makes the dough go up. In the beer brewing process it's the special type of yeast that each brand makes use of that provides it its particular taste.

After having mixed every one of the ingredients together comes the hard part, the waiting. The brew needs to move through its fermentation process and before that is finished people are not supposed to drink it or else they get sick.

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