Brewing
*** This page is currently under construction. Sorry for any inconvenience ***
For a theme for this particular page, I am going to use an outline that I used in 2000 when Cat Castells and I taught a class, how to brew your own beer. The following outline is just that. An outline. It is not set in stone and there are numerous ways to present this, but I am going to use the outline and as things need to be discussed further, I will supply a link to another page. There are a couple of other things to keep in mind. I use a couple of "play on words" in the outline. Where I have been brewing over the last couple of years has been at my good friend's house, Cat Castells. She has in her residence besides the human beings, 4 cats and a dog. The cats will not figure into this outline since they are all indoor cats and we typically brew outside, but the dog, Carby, is included here.
| 1) Cleanliness | |||
| 2) Attention to Detail (Don't worry, have a homebrew) | |||
| 3) Cleanliness | |||
| 4) Equipment | |||
| a) Homemade (be creative) | |||
| b) Using what is on the market for sale | |||
| c) Fire | |||
| d) the Cauldron | |||
| 5) Cleanliness | |||
| 6) Ingredients | |||
| a) Water and pH | |||
| b) Preparation | |||
| c) Types of Ingredients | |||
| d) Creating Recipes (my personal favorite) | |||
| 7) Cleanliness | |||
| 8) The Boil (It's a beautiful thing!) | |||
| a) the start - what gets added when | |||
| b) length of boil | |||
| c) boil over | |||
| d) different type of sugars and what they do. | |||
| 9) Cooling (Fooled you! Thought I was going to say cleanliness again, didn't you?) | |||
| 10) Cleanliness | |||
| 11) The Fermentation | |||
| a) What Happens | |||
| b) Different Types of Fermentation | |||
| 12) Bottling or Kegging | |||
| a) pros and cons | |||
| b) conditioning | |||
| c) Carby Dioxide | |||
| 13) Have a HomeBrew! | |||