Beer Making

About two weeks ago we began our winter beer making. We can't really make beer in the summer in our apartment because of the heat so we save it for winter and stock pile it. This year we started off with a special edition beer: Cranberry Holiday Ale. We look forward to it :)

The beer.

 Yeast.

The Cranberry.








Once the beer mix has had time to warm up a bit we stick it in a large pot with 3 liters of water. We cook until it boils and then let it simmer for 5 minutes. Once it has simmered we pour it into our primary fermenter (plastic bucket with lid) with 10 liters of cold water. We then continue to pour cold water into the bucket until we reach 23 liters. We then have to let it cool before we put the yeast in. Has to be below 30 degrees. Once it is cool enough we pour the yeast in, put the lid on and let it sit for about a week or until the yeast has fallen. This beer was ready to be transferred in about 5 days.

 The beer mix before water.

Cooking the beer mix.








After the yeast has fallen we then siphon the beer into carboy and it has to stay there for 2 weeks. Once the 2 weeks have passed we can move on to the bottling stage. I will do a second post on the bottling stage next weekend.

Beer being siphoned.

The carboy.