The recipe lab
Brew a beer from an empty kettle.
The lab walks through a brew day one decision at a time: water, grain, mash, sparge, boil & hops, chill, ferment, condition, taste. Each step says what you would physically do and why it changes the beer.
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Three of the stages
- Fill and heat the water
Water
You fill a pot with your brewing water.
- Close the lid
Mash
You tip the crushed grain into the hot water — in a mash tun, which is just an insulated vessel with a tap — stir the lumps out, put the lid on and walk away for an hour.
- Pitch the yeast
Ferment
You sprinkle the yeast on top, seal the lid with an airlock, and put the bucket somewhere the temperature does not swing.
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