Yeast grows on a number of plants and also drifts through the air. In the old days people fermented things without even knowing what was causing it. There is no reason we cannot make use of wild yeast in our beers and see what we end up with at the end!
Have you thought about brewing a big beer and adding those wonderful barrel flavors to your beer. Aging your beer on wood will add some complexity to your beer and introduce some great new flavors.
Important hints on homebrewing a great Munich Helles recipe.
When you start homebrewing and make some research about recipes, equipment and raw materials, you’ll find that almost everything is based on some kind of codified volume : 5 gallons. You, of course, can brew larger batches but must modify things in equipment, ingredients and methods to your brewing.
How to build and use your own temperature controller (PID).
The term “lager”, like many brewing terms, comes from our German Brewing Brethren. It means “storeroom” or “warehouse”. They key reason behind the term is that lager, unlike ale, has a longer fermentation time which leads to a “cleaner” tasting beer than ales. This a basic primer on making lager beers.
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