As home brewing is coming into its own as a hobby and occupation, the number of available options for entrepreneurial brewers is skyrocketing. While basic ales and lagers are the standard, the market is now flooded with a variety of excellent home brewing recipes. It can be hard to keep track of, but learning a basic understanding of the flavors available can help you pick the right home brewing recipe for your next batch. These beers are some of the most popular choices in the American craft brewing scene today.
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Four Handy Home Brewing Tips for Beginner Brewers in Sacramento, CA
For home brewing, whether you’ve been brewing for a while and are looking to create your own original masterpiece or you’re an eager amateur trying to see what’s in store for the future, creating a beer recipe is the final step in becoming a home brew master. This requires a fundamental understanding of how the process works and the experience to make it happen. Nothing is more rewarding than introducing your own personal creation to the world.
Begin With a Blueprint
The Beer Judge Certification Program is the perfect place to start when designing your new recipe. They institute comprehensive style guidelines that classify various types of beer according to flavor, volume, and a variety of other factors. They also offer suggested ingredients to develop the right flavor for that style.
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Start Your Brewing Career: Tips for Purchasing Home Brewing Supplies
Some home brewers in get in the business, dreaming of a day when they will get to be a part of the booming beer industry. After all, who wouldn’t want to make money off of something they enjoy doing. One of the first steps to achieving this goal is getting top-notch brewing supplies that will help you make the best beer or cider possible. Nowadays, even novices are able to create great recipes with a collection of good supplies. Read on to find out how to purchase the supplies that will launch your career in microbrewing.
How Do You Set Them Up?
Since you are going to be brewing in your home, you must choose the supplies that will fit where you need to set it up. You may keep the brewing equipment in the kitchen, or you may choose to keep the equipment in your basement. Wherever it is you intend to do your brewing, make sure that you have enough space for the equipment and some elbow room for you to work in.
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Home Brewing Recipes: Craft Beer Tips You Can Do at Home for the Fall
Oktoberfest Beers
Another option for fall craft beers is the malty dark lagers (Marzens) that are characteristic of Oktoberfest celebrations. To create your own, start with a basic Helles recipe. Kick the base malt up to a gravity of 1.055-1.060. Just add some more bittering hops to make up for the added base malt boost.
Some Other Autumn Flavors Worth Considering
Maple is always a popular craft brew ingredient in the fall. The uniquely robust autumn flavor can be achieved by mixing maple syrup (fresh, if possible) with yams, molasses, nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla with your yeast of choice. Light sour flavors and caramel are equally satisfying fall flavors that can make a tasty craft beer perfect for soothing a fall chill.
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Brewing Supplies and Methods to Use for Creating Your Own Beer at Home
With the rising popularity of craft beers, the entry barrier to becoming a brewer has become lower. It’s easier than ever to find brewing supplies in Sacramento, and new techniques allow aspiring brewers to learn the trade with a small budget and minimal experience. There are three major techniques that cater to various levels of skill and experience.
Home Beer Kit
Many first-time brewers begin with a home beer kit. These kits serve as something of an introductory-level course, guiding you through the methodology and chemistry behind the beer making process. Home kits typically consist of a tin of malt extract pre-mixed with malts and a yeast packet. The process is as simple as could be and involves just mixing the yeast and malts together and letting the brew ferment. While it’s simple and guaranteed to provide a quality taste, it doesn’t allow the customization you get with more advanced techniques.
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Home Brewing 101: The Differences of Extract and All-Grain Beer Brew
Home brewers have two options when it comes to making beer at home: extract brewing and all-grain brewing. To begin with, it is important to understand the home brewing process itself.
Beer is a result of fermenting malt sugar. The traditional process of making beer is to mash grains, take the remaining sugars as base, introduce the yeast, and then wait for it to ferment. Traditionally, all-grain is the only way to brew beer; however, today’s technology has made it possible to brew even with extracts only. In simple terms, an extract is a ready-made malt that can be immediately used as a base. Extract brewing allows the brewers to skip over the malting and mashing process and go right ahead to the fermenting process.
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Perfect Your Home Brewing Recipes with Proper Wine Tasting Techniques
Has six months passed since you made wine using your starter kit from The Brewmeister? That means the home-made wine sitting in your basement is now finally ready for tasting. But wait; do you know how to properly assess your wine? Knowing the proper wine tasting techniques will give you the necessary skill to determine if your home brewing recipes are successful.
Here are pointers on how to properly taste and assess wine:
1. Pouring the Wine – Proper wine tasting starts at the pouring itself. In a restaurant, the waiter will do this for you, but at your own home, you need to do it yourself. When pouring, make sure that the bottle is about 6-10 inches from the bottom of the glass, to allow the liquid to aerate as you pour, thus improving the taste.
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Modern Home Brewing Supplies and the Time-Tested Art of Beer Making
Beer is almost as old as civilization itself. Some historians believe that beer making started some 10 millenniums ago when our ancient ancestors moved away from hunting and gathering, and started agriculture. Nobody really knows how it was invented, but the common belief is that a barrel of bread or grain got wet and turned into pulp. Someone must have tried this pulp, either out of curiosity or hunger, and found it good. Majority of the ancient civilizations, like the Mesopotamians and the Egyptians, included the drink in many of their religious ceremonies.
One has to wonder, however, if the beer made today is still the same as the ancient beer that our ancestors created. The answer is no. While the brewing process and techniques remain largely unchanged, the home brewing supplies back then were different.
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Brewing Supplies in Sacramento: The Rise of Home Brewing as a Business
The popularity of home brewing is growing, both as a hobby and business. Last year, results from the 5th annual Homebrew Supply Shop Survey showed that the gross revenue of suppliers across the United States increased by 10.5% in 2013.
Among the products sold, beginner homebrew kits were highlighted, growing by 24% among consumers between the ages of 30 and 39 years old. The number of young stores also rose when data showed 37% of the respondents had only been around for three years or less. Moreover, over 60% of the respondents had seen a new shop opening around their area that year.
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Bottoms Up! Tweak Home Brewing Recipes for More Interesting Flavors
When you were still a novice home brewer, you might have been following the instructions laid out in recipe booklets by heart, afraid that if you change even one element of the whole process, you’d get a bad-tasting brew. Now that you’re quite adept at brewing your own beer, however, why not try tweaking and playing around with your home brewing recipes to get an interesting flavor?
Some people believe that to create a totally different brew, they have to start from scratch and find the right ingredients and factor in the necessary measurements, however you only need to make a few little tweaks on recipes you’ve already tried and tested. Fortunately, there are two ways you can drastically change your beer’s taste: either you change its ingredients or you don’t. First, you find a basic recipe that you can carry out perfectly, and then start experimenting.
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