Learn to Homebrew

Step 1: Prepare

Gather your brewing equipment. You'll need:

• Brewing Kettle
• Fermenter + Air Lock
• Funnel (optional)
• Sanitizer
• Auto-Siphon
• Stir Spoon
• Beer Recipe Kit (or individual ingredients)

Step 2: Brew

Steep Grains. Fill your 5-gallon brew kettle with 2.5 gallons of water. Heat your water to 170 degrees and steep grains for 20 minutes. Boil. Once your kettle comes to a rolling boil remove it from heat and add malt extracts. Once the extract is dissolved return to a boil. Hops will now be added at various intervals. Chill wort. Cool your wort as quickly as possible. This can be done one of two ways: Ice Bath. Simply set your pot into a sink filled with ice water. Wort chiller. This is the fastest way to cool your wort, but requires special equipment.

Step 3: Ferment

Don't forget to sanitize all your supplies!

1. Pour cooled wort into the fermenter. Some brew kettles even have a valve for easy transportation from your kettle to your fermenter.
2. Add water to bring the level to 5 gallons.
3. Aerate wort by splashing it around in its container. Yeast need oxygen, and splashing your wort will help.
4. Add yeast. Dry yeast is the easiest, as you don't have to prepare it beforehand. Sanitize the yeast pack + scissors, cut the corner off the yeast pack, and pour the yeast into the fermenter.
5. Seal your fermenter, add a fermentation air lock, and store in a dark cool place. Ales should stay at 68 degrees to ferment properly.
6. Allow at least two weeks of fermentaion before bottling.

Step 4: Bottle

Cleanse. Use sanitizer to clean all equipment and bottles. Priming sugar. Boil in 16 oz of water. After it cools, add it directly to the bottling bucket. Transfer. Siphon the beer out of your fermenter and into your bottling bucket. Fill. Attach bottle filler to hose, and hose to bottling bucket spigot. Open the bottling bucket spigot and push the bottle filler to the bottom of the bottle. Cap. Use a bottle capper. Store. The bottles need to stay at room temperature for roughly two weeks to carbonate.

Step 5: Enjoy!

Drink and share your homebrew. Repeat.