Labels:text | newspaper | black and white | newsprint | publication OCR: HOMETOWN HOMEBREW INC. CATALOG/NEWSLETTER 1 (800) 547-7709 Welcome Australian Lagers, and the high specified range relative to the quality German beers -- you can make them all for just a fraction of particular strain being used. And Welcome to Hometown Homebrew. Since becoming a the cost. Plus you get the pride of best results will be achieved if the temperature does not fluctuate. homebrewer I have spent many making it yourself. I also carry a joyful hours making and drinking limited quantity of wine making In the broadest sense there are my own beer. It's legal, easy, and supplies and will be more than two styles of yeast: lager and ale. Lagers (meaning bottom) are you can make beer as good as the happy to special order any supplies typically fermented at temperatures commercial brands -- only fresher you need such as: wine making kits, between 48 - 75 degrees F. At the and with more character. With grape and other fruit concentrates lower end of this temperature range ingredients imported from around and fresh juice from California, the yeast will function very slowly the world, it's as much fun learning Italy, and Denmark, barrels, and will appear inactive on the how various styles of beers are bottles, corks, and corkers. bottom of the fermenter. Ale yeast made as it is drinking them. Some are typically fermented at higher varieties are nearly impossible to Beer Basics temperatures which range from 60 - find, like Belgium fruit beers -- beer 80 degrees F. Ale beers ferment with just a hint of raspberry or much faster than lagers and the cherry. Another example is mead, In any activity there are always a yeast does not stay on the bottom an ancient favorite, made from few concepts, rules, or principles rather it continually thrashes about, honey, that has all but vanished in upon which everything else is built, such is the same with making beer. much like vegetables in a pot of America. Of course, you're familiar boiling soup. with Irish Stouts, English Ales, In its purest form beer is The fermentation cycle will end comprised of only four ingredients: when either all of the barley malt The Yard of Ale. barley malt, hops, water, and yeast. has been consumed by the yeast or In fact, in Germany, where they really take their beer seriously, the when the alcohol level increases to Reinheitsgebot purity law restricts the point where the yeast can no longer function. At this point both brewers from adding anything else. Yet with only four ingredients you types of yeast will become dormant and fall to the bottom of the can literally make thousands of fermenter. different styles of beer. In the next few paragraphs I'll try to explain Barley malt is simply barley how this is possible. grain that had begun to germinate Yeast is the central ingredient in the brewing process. It is a living Inside: organism, a bacteria, that consumes Information and Service - simple sugars (glucose and maltose chains only a few molecules long) Equipment Kits .4 and produces alcohol and carbon Malt Extract Kits .5 dioxide. Much of the flavor you Malt Extract Syrup .6 Single associate with beer is produced by Grains & Adjuncts 7 Set the yeast and different biological Hops 8 strains produce distinctively Yeasts 10 different flavors. Additives & Cleaners 11 Competition Set The best flavor will result if the Equipment . . . 12 yeast is fresh, healthly, and pure Video Tapes & Books 13 $110.95 Yard $69.95 (free of wild yeasts). Another factor Recipes . 16 $79.95 1/2 Yard $49.95 that is critical to quality is Brewers Log 17 $49.95 Foot $34.95 temperature. The fermentation Order Form 23 temperature must be within a
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