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You should expect problems, especially if this is your first time brewing.  Even for expert home brewers, problems can occur from time to time - which is something you’ll learn to deal with.
Stuck fermentation
Stuck fermentation occurs when your beer fails to ferment to completion.  This can result from the use of old yeast or poor [...]

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Brewing lager beer at home is simple and the results can be very impressive: malty German bocks and Oktoberfests, clean smooth Czech pilsners.
Besides basic 2-stage brewing equipment, all you need is a yeast starter and a spare refrigerator… a temperature controller can come in handy too.
1. Prepare a Yeast Starter
This is a good thing to [...]

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The first thing you’ll need to do when brewing is to sanitize everything that will come in contact with your unfermented beer.  It will take time for the sanitizer to do its job, so don’t rush things.
Next, you’ll need to rinse everything to remove any remaining sanitizer.  Any remaining sanitizer can kill of your yeast [...]

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Before you can start brewing beer, you’ll need to have the right equipment.  If this is your first time brewing, you should start simple.  Before you begin, the first thing that you’ll need is a brewpot.  Before you rush out and buy one, you may already have one that will work just fine.
The pot should [...]

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The normal batch of homebrewed beer is five gallons in volume, which is enough for 2 cases, or 48 12 ounce bottles of beer.
The typical homebrewed beer is produced by boiling water, malt extract and hops together in a large kettle and then cooling the resulting wort and adding yeast for fermenting. Experienced homebrewers [...]

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The main ingredients found in beer are water, malted barley, hops, and yeast.  There are other ingredients such as flavoring, sugar, and other ingredients that are commonly used.  Starches are used as well, as they convert in the mashing process to easily fermentable sugars that will help to increase the alcohol content of beer while [...]

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