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Homemade Beer

2-3oz hops

4lb white sugar

4lb brown sugar

4lb malt

beer yeast

Boil hops on stove with about 1/2 gallon water for about 10 minutes.

Dissolve sugars + malt with boiling water.

Strain hops in sieve into sugar and malt.

Place into 10 gallon fermenting vat and top up with water.

Add yeast in vat when water is about 70 deg F.

Bottle with one teaspoon of sugar in each bottle.

Makes about 5 dozen.

DIY Home Brew Beer

Boil  3/4 lb barley + 3 oz hops in a pillow slip for one hour in one gallon of water.

Meanwhile also boil 4 gallons of water and leave to cool.

Take out and drain the bag, discarding the hops and barley (compost heap?)

Add to the brew 2 lbs brown sugar + 1 lb light malt + 1/2 lb dark malt.

Put the mixture + the boiled water into a fermenter.

When cooled to blood heat (38 deg C / 98 deg F).

Add 1/2 oz of yeast.

Seal with air lock and leave for one week.

Bottle, use bottles which have been well sterilised.

Add one teaspoon sugar (heaped) per bottle.

Cap bottles and leave for about three weeks.

Experiment with ingredients, some like to use molasses or organic sweeteners in place of some of the sugar.