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How I make my home brewed beer!
This is all you need to make MY version of home brewed beer!
1. one 1 cup measuring cup
2. 9 bags of Green Tea
3. one packet of yeast (I use Fleischmann’s Rapid-Rise)
4.SUGAR!!!!
5, one pot (enough to hold 2 liters)
6. one funnel
7. one 2 liter plastic container with lid
8. One WOODEN spoon!
This recipe makes one 2 liter bottle full. It will take 3 days to make and when it’s ready to drink, it will taste like good strong BEER! I usually make 3 two liter containers worth so I can drink for 12 hours straight!
First thing you need to do is make sure everything is CLEAN! Wash everything inside and out. Even the caps on the containers.
Next, pour one and 4/5ths liter water into pot, put the 9 bags of green tea into water.
When the water comes to a FULL boil, then you set the timer for ten minutes. This is to make sure the tea, water, and pot are fully sterile. After ten minutes, take the tea out and put 3 cups of sugar into the water and stir with a STERILE wooden spoon. This is so if you have teflon coated pots, you don’t scratch off any of the teflon into the mix.
When the sugar is all dissolved, take off stove to cool… I use ice cubes to cool my mix off.
When the pot is a little warmer than your hands, it’s ready for the yeast to go in. You don’t want the pot TOO hot . The reason you don’t want the pot TOO hot is because you can cook the yeast when you put it in. Then the yeast won’t do it’s job… Which is to eat the sugar and fart alcohol, in a manner of speaking. The sugar is food to the yeast. Then it converts the sugar to alcohol.
Put the yeast in and stir. It should look like this.
Now you want to pour all this mix into the 2 liter plastic container with the funnel, cap it off real good and shake the container for about one minute. Slowly unscrew the cap REAL slow. There should be some foam on the top of the mix.
Now I make my brew at six or seven P.M. so as to be able to use my 60 watt light bulb. I put it right by my 60 watt bulb - With the cap screwed on, BUT loose enough to allow gas to escape. You should hear gas escape when you unscrew it. When you hear gas escaping, that’s the ideal position for the cap to be in. I put my brew by my 60 watt light bulb from seven P.M. up until about two A.M.
I usually shake mine up about once a night and the next morning. This is to oxegenate the water so the yeast can survive. It also spreads the yeast and sugar around so the yeast can get at the sugar and eat it. The next three days you should shake your brew up about 3 to 4 times a day for about a minute. Unscrew it SLOWLY after each time, because there will be A LOT of gas built up each time you shake it up. You should see TINY bubbles rise each time you unscrew the container and when it is fermenting. Don’t take the cap fully off or you could end up with bad beer. In three days you can. In the daytime I leave my brew in a cupboard above my stove. You want the temperature of the cupboard to be around 70 - 80 degrees. That is the ideal temperature.
After three days your home brew should be ready to drink. It should have a slightly sweet beery taste.
Believe me, after three cups of this you WILL be feeling very happy! I know I do…
Have fun... And remember, please drink responsibly.
Purnell Marks
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817