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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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If you've been making your own homemade beer and wine for some time now, you may have found just the right mix of ingredients and fermenting time to produce the perfect brew for you. However, part of the fun of making your own beer or wine at home is being able to adjust your recipes and add some zing or zest to whatever you're making; after all, this is the only way that you'll never get bored! Below are some ideas to add some personality to your home brew recipes? There are actually a few simple tricks you can try.
For one thing, add some fruit to your beer. Many home brew recipes you'll find online give you instructions on how to mash fresh fruit, such as raspberries, strawberries, or even blueberries, and add these to your wort before you're ready for fermentation. Adding fruit to beer is something that has been practiced for centuries; don't worry about whether or not it will turn out too sweet or syrupy. Just a handful or a cup or two of fresh fruit mash to your five or six gallons of wort will only give your beer a certain fresh flavor; it won't overpower it or make it taste like cough syrup, we promise! Think about what fresh fruit you can add to your own home brew recipes; who knows but that you may actually invent some exotic mango or peach flavored beer that everyone will love! And mix up your fruit as well - a cup of raspberries with one peeled apple, for instance, can really add some extra zing to your home brew recipes without either fruit flavor being overpowering. Make sure you strain out any pips or seeds or anything else when you transfer to your secondary fermenting container.
You might also try using something else to age your beer when you've fermented it. Many large commercial breweries have oak barrels in which they store beer; the oak permeates the beer itself making it a bit crisper and woodsier in flavor. If you've already done all you can to adjust your home brew recipes, think about adjusting the fermenting and aging process. Placing your secondary fermenting container in a very cool place for the last half of this procedure can also greatly affect the flavor and taste of the beer, even if the home brew recipes don't change themselves.
And of course you may want to step outside of your own comfort zone when it comes to trying new home brew recipes. If you love pale ales, try a darker beer, or vice versa. Browse the websites that post these recipes and find ones that get good reviews from those who have tried them. Don't limit yourself to just your favorite home brew recipes over and over again, but kick it up a notch and you might find that these new endeavors become your favorite brews after all.
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