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OCR: .... ... . Brewing the William's Way WILLIAM'S HOME 3. After fermentation has BREWERY ended, the raw beer is transferred into the Prim- ing Tank, where the corn sugar is stirred in to pro- William's Home Brewery includes every- vide food for the yeast to thing needed to brew quality ales and produce carbonation. lagers, except beer bottles and a large (4 gallons and up) boiling pot. Each 5 gal- lon batch produced yields 45 - 48 twelve ounce bottles of beer. 4. After priming, the beer is bottled. Five gallons of Boiling beer (as produced by all The first step in brewing is boiling the William's kits) requires wort (a brewing term for unfermented about 48 twelve-ounce beer). The malt and hops are bolled in beer bottles or equiva- three gallons or more of water for an hour to blend the flavors and rid the lent. After bottling, beer wort of unstable proteins. When cool, is aged two weeks or the wort is poured in the included longer before drinking. Siphonless Fermenter, where cold water is stirred in to make 5 gallons. Yeast is added, the fermenter sealed, and fer- mectation begins in about 48 hours. Fermentation 1. The first step in brew- After fermentation begins, it will con- ing is boiling the malt and tinue for 12 days. Twelve days after add- hops together for 1 hour ing the yeast, the beer is checked with a hydrometer to be sure it is safe to to blend and flavor the bottle. beer. If using liquid Bottling yeast (as included in William's Kits), it must be When the beer is ready to bottle, the included Priming Tank is placed below started two days in ad- the Siphonless, and the beer is trans- vance of brewing, while ferred via the valve to the Priming Tank, dry yeast can be prepared where carbonating corn sugar is stirred in. Just as the unique Siphoaless trans- after boiling. fer valve avoids messy siphoning into the Priming Tank, the Priming Tank's bottling valve allows easy bottling for kegging) of the primed beer without 2. After boiling, the fin- awkward siphoning. Provided for sani- ished wort (brewer's fixing is enough dry sanitizer to make 8 term for unfermented gallons of working solution. beer) is cooled and poured off its sediment Capping Equipment into the Siphonless Fer- The Italian Lever Capper included is a menter with the yeast, versatile, easy to use capper, and will where fermentation be- cap virtually all non twist cap beer hot- gins. Fermentation gen- tles, except American champagne bot- tles. Optionally, our Brewery is erally lasts 12 days. available without a capger and caps. 2