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Drink Up!
Your Guide to Home Brewing Made Easy
Amazing ebook shows how to get started, fantastic recipes, and tricks of home brew!
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Boiling your mash to make the wort, or the liquid that will eventually become your beer, is an important part of your home brewing process. Some wonder however if a home brew generator does just as good of a job as boiling this mixture in a pot on your stove, and if there are any drawbacks to using it. It's true that sometimes a home brew generator will cut your boiling time in half or reduce it somewhat, but there are some cautions you should be aware of before opting for this piece of equipment.
Remember that boiling anything on the stovetop brings some risk of burns or accidents. Obviously when making up your own home brews, you want to be mindful of children that are nearby and of your own safety as well. Most home brew generators bring about the same risks, as you're still dealing with very hot liquids. The risk of burns from the steam is even greater, as boiling water immediately begins to cool once it hits the cool air, but with a home brew generator, this steam is hot even in the cooler air. If it makes contact with your skin, you have a greater chance of suffering severe burns than if you had even spilled boiling water on yourself.
Most home brew generators are made from pressure cookers and some tubing. The steam created by the pressure cooker is transferred to your mash and begins to cook it the way it would when it boils, but because steam permeates it completely, the mash is cooked in much less time when you use a home brew generator than when you simply boil it.
A good pressure cooker that you can use as your home brew generator can be expensive, and it can be tricky to outfit it for your brewing process. Most online instructions for using such an element call for drilling a special hole in the lid of the pressure cooker in order to run the tubing to the mash. Obviously if you don't know what you're doing with a drill or make even a slight mistake, you can easily ruin a very expensive piece of kitchen equipment.
If you're in a hurry for your mash to boil, obviously the decision of whether or not to use a home brew generator is going to be up to you, but you might ask yourself if homemade beer is really the hobby for you if patience is not one of your virtues. Even if you can rush through the mash and wort process, you still need to let your mixture sit and ferment for days, even weeks at a time. Trying to rush the process at all can ruin the best of mixtures, even if you use a specially designed home brew generator. You might compare it to cooking a pot roast in the microwave - sure, it will cook that way, and a lot faster, but how will it actually taste?
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