Making Home Draught Beer

Making a home brew is a fun and exciting process, but it also takes time and patience to wait for the fermentation process to get completed before consuming the delicious home draught beer. Beer made at home can either be bottled, which is probably more common, but it can also be put into a keg so that it can be used at parties as home draught beer. This is a fun option to buying a keg, which can be costly and usually does not have the quality that making home draught beer supplies.

How to Make It

The first step to making home draught beer is to make sure all of the supplies are on hand and sanitized. The brew pot, the primary fermenter, the hose and any other equipment should be thoroughly washed and sanitized in a bleach or iodine solution for thirty minutes before being rinsed and dried, ready for use. Once everything is cleansed and sanitized, then the brew pot can be used with the ingredients from the home draught beer kit and about two gallons of water. The water should be brought almost to a boil so that the water is steaming before taking the pot off and mixing in the ingredients in the order prescribed on the package. Once the ingredients are dissolved into the water, it should be placed back onto the heat, set at the lowest setting, and cooked for another ten to fifteen minutes.

While that is cooking, the next stage in the home draught beer making process is to fill the primary fermenter with cold water four gallons worth and to get the airlock and stopper ready. When the brew pot's time is up, the ingredients should be mixed into the water of the primary fermenter so that the yeast gets oxygenated usually in about two minutes of mixing. Then it should be sealed closed so the fermenting process can begin. This process of home draught beer making lasts from three to five days, or whenever the air bubbles stop coming into the airlock on a regular basis. If the beer is removed from the primary fermenter too soon and placed in the keg, the keg will explode from the release of gasses in the fermentation process.

The final step is to mix the pure dextrose with water in a three quarter cup to three cup ratio. Once this mixture has boiled and then cooled for twenty minutes and the ingredients of the fermenter have cooled as well, then they can both be poured into the keg for sealing. The keg has to sit with the home draught beer for at least two weeks for the secondary fermenting process to finish before consumption.