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Home Brew Recipe Kit

Transform simple ingredients into delicious, handcrafted beer right in your kitchen with this easy home brew recipe.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings: 48 oz
Course: Beverage
Cuisine: American
Calories: 150
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Main
  • 8 lbs malt extract liquid or dry
  • 1 oz hops bittering
  • 1 oz hops flavor/aroma
  • 1 packet yeast ale or lager
  • 5 oz priming sugar for carbonation
  • 5 gallons water

Equipment

  • 5-gallon brew kettle
  • Fermentation vessel with airlock
  • Sanitizer
  • Hydrometer
  • Bottling bucket and bottles
  • Siphon and tubing

Method
 

  1. Sanitize all your equipment.
  2. Pour 5 gallons of water into your brew kettle and bring it to a boil.
  3. Add the malt extract to the boiling water and stir until dissolved.
  4. Once the malt is dissolved, add the bittering hops and boil for 60 minutes.
  5. In the last 5 minutes of the boil, add the flavor/aroma hops.
  6. Cool the wort quickly using an immersion chiller or an ice bath.
  7. Transfer the cooled wort into the fermentation vessel and add the yeast.
  8. Seal it with an airlock and let it ferment for about 1-2 weeks.
  9. Once fermentation is complete, siphon the beer into a bottling bucket mixed with priming sugar.
  10. Bottle and cap your beer, then let it carbonate for another 1-2 weeks.

Notes

Monitor fermentation temperature closely and be patient; good things take time, especially when brewing.