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!