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[ The Phone Phantom presents.... ]
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[ How to brew your own beer! ]
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This is it, folks! The phile you've all been waiting for!! Thanks for
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downloading it; be watching for my new computer magazine, "Dial 'I' for
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Information!" It is filled with more interesting text files like this one.
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If you like this file, please leave me some feedback on Electric Dreams or
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the Bible Board.
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Okay, here's what you'll need:
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-Bottles. After calling a bunch of bottle manufacturers here in Des Moines,
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one guy told me to buy them from the brewery up in Adel. It's
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called The Old Depot; it also has a nice restaurant, but it's
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expensive. They will sell you used beer bottles for 5 cents each,
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or new ones for 20 cents.
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-Bottle caps. You can get these at the Old Depot also for a penny each, or
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from the place where I'm about to tell you to get your crimper
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for the bottle caps.
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-Bottle capper (or crimper). I got mine at the New City Market; this is where
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you'll probably want to get your ingredients.
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They also have bottle caps and most of the other
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equipment. Their address is 4721 University.
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-A 4-5 gallon pot.
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-Ingredients for your recipe. You can get just about everything at New City
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Market.
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-Racking hoses. Basically siphon hoses. You can get these at New City Market
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or just go to the hardware store and buy some vinyl tubing.
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-A strainer or cheesecloth bag.
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-Brewer's yeast. I believe it comes in 7 gram packets. You'll need one per
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batch, any kind will do. New City Market.
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-2 5-gallon buckets. I suggest one 5-gallon bucket and one glass carboy
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(the jug from the office water cooler). You can get
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both of these at New City Market.
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-An airlock. This is a little plastic device that you put water in and it
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lets the CO2 escape without letting any air in. New City Market.
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-A rubber stopper. New City Market.
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-Irish moss. This stuff helps the yeast settle.
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-Bottle brush. New City Market
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-Bleach.
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Okay, here's the basic process:
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Bring 2-3 gallons of water to a boil and add the malt extract. To make it
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easier to pour out of the can, soak the can in hot water first. Then add the
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first load of hops. The hops that you add at the beginning of the boil is
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called the bittering hops, and the hops that you add at the end is called the
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aromatic hops. If your recipe calls for regular malt also, add it now, too.
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Also pour in the corn sugar, if it's called for. Let this mixture (it's called
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a wort) boil for about a half an hour, and during the last 5 minutes of the
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boil, add a teaspoon of Irish Moss.
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Now you need to strain all the hops and malt out of the wort, so all you have
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is a dark liquid with no crud in it. You can do this however you want. After
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you've strained it, pour the liquid into your 5-gallon glass carboy (or
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plastic bucket, if you've chosen that). Add cold water until the total amount
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of liquid is 5 gallons. The carboy or bucket that you're using now will be
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referred to as the Primary Fermentation Vessel, or PFV. Put the PFV in a cool
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place overnight.
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When the liquid in the PFV is cooled to room temperature, sprinkle the yeast
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on top of the mixture, let it sit for about 10 minutes, then stir it in. If
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you're using the glass carboy you'll have to shake the whole thing. Put the
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stopper on the carboy and insert the airlock. Be sure to fill the airlock
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halfway with water. Put the PFV in a cool place to ferment for about a week.
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While you're waiting for the beer to ferment, you'll need to wash and
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sterilize your bottles. Use your bottle brush to scrub out the bottles, hold
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them up to the light to check for scum, and then soak them all in the bathtub
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with bleach and hot water.
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You'll know when it's done fermenting because that big foamy thing on top of
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the beer will get smaller, and the airlock will bubble less often. Now you
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need to siphon the beer off of the crud at the bottom. This is where the
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other 5-gallon bucket comes in. Leave a lot of beer in the PFV if you have
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to, but don't siphon up that stuff! It tastes gross!! Use your mouth to
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start the siphon.
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After you've siphoned out the good beer, immediately "prime" it with about a
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cup of CORN sugar. This will ferment a little more once it's in the bottles,
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creating CO2. Since the CO2 can't escape, it carbonates your beer. After
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you've primed it, put your beer into bottles and seal them with the crimper.
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Put them in a dark place for 2-3 weeks. After this time you can drink it. I
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would pour it into a glass, first, because whenever you brew your own beer you
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are going to have some yeast settled on the bottom of the bottle. There is no
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way around this. If you drink it from the bottle it tastes a little different
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at the bottom.
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Here's a rather unique recipe that I like. Beware: this does not taste like
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American beer! It's good, though. I had several friends who don't even like
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beer tell me that it was good.
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Ingredients:
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-6 cups corn sugar.
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-1 package of Cascade Leaf Hops. New City Market, in the cooler.
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-About 1/3 lb. of Crystal Malt.
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-Pale Ale beermaking kit. It's basically a can of malt extract. There's a
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packet of yeast included!
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Just make it like I said above, only boil it for 15 minutes instead of 30, add
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all of the hops at once, let it ferment for about 5 days, and be sure to save
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1 cup of the 6 cups of corn sugar for priming.
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While you're at New City Market, check out their books on brewing. If you're
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really into this stuff you might want to pick one up.
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Special thanks goes out to Jeff Hunter, SysOp of Temple of the Screaming
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Electron BBS.
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That's all, folks! If you have any questions drop me a line on Electric
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Dreams or the Bible Board. Happy brewing!!
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