August 2007
5 posts
Making your own beer
Brewing beer is 100% legal, although some people are lead to think that it’s not. Jimmy Carter saw to that in 1979. Making your own beer is a great hobby. Like most other hobbies (cooking, photography, gardening etc..) it’s one that reflects the effort of the hobbyist. I found this great little video that shows that the home brewing is on the rise and as more and more people become better...
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Make your own beer
Beers main ingredients There are 4 main ingredients in beer: water, barley, hops, and yeast. Although this does not sound to complicated, it can get to be. Malted Barley Barley is a seed of a grain that looks like wheat. It’s used in many foods such as cereals, and of course, it’s needed to make your own beer. But before it can be used, it must be malted. To malt the barley it be soaked...
Make your own beer
Welcome to Make Your Own Beer. Making beer is a great thing, I love it! That’s the main reason I made this small site. Apart from the love of beer, I no longer have buy beer from the Mega, “fat-cat”, breweries. My name is Jim Johnston. I first got into Beer brewing from a T.V ad at 3am one morning. It was an ad for “The Beer Machine”. Of course I ordered it. To make a long story...