Serving up a Brew: Home Beer Taps

Many people find that buying their own beer can be expensive and also not quite the flavor or quality that they may be looking to find. Today, there are home brewing systems that include making beer in a keg which needs a home beer tap when it is ready. Home beer taps can be bought at any brewing store and come with a variety of different labels according to the individual's preference. Home beer taps are a great way to provide draft beer at home - made at home and served at home!

Making Home Beer

Making home made beer takes time, patience and the equipment to complete the process. The equipment really is not too expensive, running under two hundred dollars for everything. In addition, home brewing kits that include the keg and often a home beer tap can be bought for around forty dollars, which is inexpensive compared to the quality of beer that will be produced by doing it at home.

Every piece of home brewing equipment must be thoroughly sterilized, including the home beer tap, to ensure that bacteria do not build up in the system to contaminate the beer. Every thing can be sterilized by a bleach or iodine solution, soaking for a half an hour and then rinsed and dried thoroughly. Once everything is sterilized then the beer making process can begin.

Two gallons of water are brought to a steam just before the boiling process begins. Then it is removed from the heat and all of the ingredients from the beer making kit are added to the water and stirred until all is dissolved. After that it is added back to the lowest heat on the stove for about ten to fifteen minutes. While that is cooking, four gallons of cold water is added to the primary fermenter so that it is ready for the ingredients. When the ingredients are done, they are stirred into the water in the fermenter for two minutes before being sealed in with the airlock and stopper.

The primary fermenting lasts from three to five days, or until the air bubbles stop rising into the airlock. After that the priming solution is made by boiling three cups of water and adding three quarters cup of pure dextrose to it so that it can be added to the bottling bucket before the ingredients from the primary fermenter. All ingredients should be cool before adding them to the bottling bucket. Once done, the bottling or keg process can begin, in which the beer will have to sit for at least another two weeks until the secondary fermenting is completed.