Home Brew Beer
The past Saturday, I decided to attempt brewing my own beer at home. I decided to do a proper attempt, by going the full grain route!! I decided to do it on a budget, thus I made my own kit, which basically only consists out of a fermenting bucket, the rest is basically normal stuff you find in and around the house.
I decided to try a stout, and bought the ingredients as per the list below. The photo above shows the grains. I bought the ingredients for 25 litter of beer, but then found that my biggest pot could only take approximately 15 litters, thus I halved all the ingredients to make 12 litters of beer.
Below is the hops in the packet.
Below you can see me with the grain in the grain bag, this works almost like brewing tea!! I decided to keep my grain in the pot at 67 degrees Celsius for 75 minutes. This basically breaks down the sugars from the grains, which produce your malt in the end.
Below you can see my grain in the pot, note the color of the water, which is starting to form my malt.
After the steeping of the grain is completed the entire brew must be boiled for about an hour, this is also the time you can add your hops. Below you can see my hops.
Below is the hops in the small bag, inside the mixture, boiling away happily.
After the boiling is completed, the wort must be cooled down fast, as it is winter here by us, I used the ice-cold swimming pool to do the cooling.
After cooling the wort is poured into the fermenting bucket and the yeast added for fermenting. Now one must wait for the fermenting to take place, before the bottling can be done.
I have decided to brew my beer in the middle of winter with very low temperatures here in Pretoria, I measured the temperature inside the house at 14 degrees Celsius, and it seems a bit to cold for my fermenting as it seems to be going very slowly. I wonder if somebody with some experience in brewing can tell me if this is to cold and if I should be more patient.
I hope this turns out good, I will let you know when I test it, which will be about a month after bottling.
I hope you liked the photos as much as I did taking them.
All photos were taken by my with my iPhone at my home in Pretoria, South-Africa.
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Let us know the results. It looks an interesting experience.
I will definitely do so.
This is my first time reading about a DIY brewing experience. It is very interesting to see the process from the pictures and your post, great job!
Thank you so much.
A great photos and I'm sure that home made beer is also excellent, like the best varieties. Well done! Thank you @rynow
I hope you are right, will have to wait and see!!
Go ahead true beer lover man, have a nice day with your home made beer!
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Thank you so much.
That's so amazing your homemade beer. Very nice process that you share with us wish you happy beer Saturday always be enjoy yourself good luck..
Thank you.
Oh yeah @rynow, it's a great idea to make homemade beer and I'm sure that your beer will be delicious!
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It is very interesting to know what you will get. Knowing how you feel about beer, I think it will be perfect :)
I really hope so.
Cheers up dear!
Good idea
It is very interesting to know what you will get
Wonderful food photography. Thanks for share
Hello @rynow,
Extraordinary good article with nice photography + step by step guidance of how to brew beer.
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Very interesting beer
Such a wonderful food photography. Thanks for share
WOW,, Such an interesting experience! Let us know the results and how does it taste like.dear @rynow
very interesting article, how long you keep them before bottling? @rynow
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I must wait until it is finished fermenting, then I can bottle, today I increased the heat a bit and it seems to be fermenting now. Fermenting takes between a week and 2 weeks.
Next winter will make things more happier. Nice post & good photography
Awesome and i hope that you enjoyed this making session and also hope that for sure you will going to like this Beer stuff. 🙂
With the price of everything going up making your own beer is a great idea @rynow
Always have beer on tap for braai's (BBQ), the only person I can think of that may be able to give you ideas on brewing process is @braaiboy
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Hey @rynow,
I'll chat to my mate Gavin from OC Breweries (the brewmaster scientist behind my beer), but while I speak under correction, lagers are ideally suited for winter... fermenting at their best around 8 to 12 °C (inside the fermenter) ... Stout's like it a little warmer though (around 17 °C).
P.S. 14 °C shouldn't be too cold outside for your fermenter to reach ideal temp for your stout... unless there's something wrong with your yeast (or if there isn't enough of it).
Yes, I heated up the room and added some more yeast and it seems to be fermenting now!
Thanks for the input.
Thank you very much
Nothing can beat a good homebrew beer. I have done some very basic brewing a long time ago but would really like to get back into it. I helped out my cousin with a porter partial mash recipe a few months ago and it turned out really well. He is quite a serious home-brewer though and always has delicious new beers to try out. I am getting thirsty just thinking about it. Look forward to seeing your other recipes as you try them out and also hearing how this one turned out.
I think you must definitely do it again!! Currently it is still fermenting.
cool idea rynow
Great, now I'm going to try it too! :D I see you really love the word 'decided.' ;) So I decided to point it out too. :P I'm not in SA anymore, didn't even know you could buy some of the ingredients there. Where did you buy it, PnP perhaps? Or Checkers?
Hi Remil
We now have some special home brew shops here, like Brewmart and Brewcraft where you can buy kits and ingredients. You must definitely try to do it to.
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Hello how are you? how is your wife? great to make beer at home I would never dare but I see that it is not so difficult I will be pending to see how this goes, greetings!
Both my wife and I is great, the process is not very difficult, I hope it comes out great!!
WOW! Such an interesting experience! Let us know the results and how does it taste like.
I will definitely do it.
Hello friend, I loved the photographs, and how tenacious you are that you accept any challenge, very interesting your homemade crvza, I hope you share as I am after the aged, I have nothing more to congratulate, for an excellent attempt to make homemade beer, Greetings. I take this opportunity to thank you for your great support. @rynow
Thank you so much for the nice comment, I will definitely share the end result.
@rynow, wow you found amazing task and now you can taste beer inside home lol.
That's awesome work you already decided and I saw you was perfect with above task. Great job @rynow.
Thank you so much for the nice comment.
Incredible that you have tried, I will look forward to the result... from here I send good vibes so that everything goes well.
Thank you very much, so far so good!!
Creativity to the maximum, Your beer will taste great I decree it!
Thanks for the great decree!!!
Perfect work with perfect video. You can do everything without any faults.
whoa! Interesting sir.
Chears
Excellent food photography and very nice beer . I I love your post. Thank you for sharing with us "
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wow now that's looking fantastic great for beer lovers :D
Buenos días amigo, espero se encuentren excelente, gracias por compartir su experiencia en este desafío. Espero obtenga excelentes resultados, Abrazos y Dios los siga llenando de bendiciones.
Muchas gracias por el muy buen comentario. ¡Espero que la cerveza salga genial!