Beer Brews - Home Beer Brewing

Here it is! The final in our How To Brew Beer At Home series!!

How To Brew Beer At Home - pt 6 - Sanitizing The Bottles This step is mandatory before filling the bottles if you have not sterilized your bottles. I did both to be extra cautious.

This is how to fully sterilize your bottles in bleach. The lady at the brew store said that ‘they’ recommend you do this 1 in every 4 brews. I did it like this to be safe for this stout brew. Don’t want anything to go wrong!

Here is a detailed video on how to use a hydrometer: www.youtube.com

Once everything is mixed in, we will then take the fermentation bucket upstairs into the bathtub where we can quickly fill it up with cool water. Since there is already hot water in the bucket, the mixture of both cool and hot will creat a warm water which is what the yeat loves to have so it can activate and eat the sugar. Yeast is living. It grows. It doesn’t do much until it encounters sugar. However, like people, yeast works best in certain condiditions. If it’s too hot, we work slowely and sweat too much. If it’s too cold we are bothered by the cold so cannot work fast. The yeast likes to be at a certain temperature range to eat up all that sugar. The yeast also needs to be fresh. It will die slowely over time by itself. The fresher the yeast the better. In the homebrew world a lot of the products contain yeast that is close to expiry or over expiry. Ensure that you check the best before date on anything you buy when dealing with your local brew store. Once the water in the fermenter is warm, we will then move the fermenter (not fun) into a temperature controlled empty bedroom. Mine is set for 24 degrees. We will end up leaving it there for a few days.