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Process Overview-Table

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My homebrew breviary

Introduction

The intention of this breviary is to make you interested in this special hobby. The idea to write it down came when I introduced my American relative Terry to the matter and I am proud to tell you that he does a good job ( I already tested his beer !!) and always when he is visiting us we are doing a brew together. There are a lot of internet publications on homebrewing. The only litterature recommendation I want to give you is a book of Charlie Papazian 'Joy of Home Brewing' ISBN 0-06-053105-3 that Terry showed me last time. I got it at amazone's. -> This breviary will give you only a short overview on how you can start and what you have to do.

First look at an
overview table
of the whole process.

Now you can examine the process steps more detailed:

• barley grains, malt, grinding, mashing, lautering
  
  
  from barley to malt grains (a job for malt factories)
  
  
  
  from barley to malt grains (a job for malt factories)
  
  
  
  grinding the grains to brewing malt grains (first point of entry for homebrewers)
  
  
  
  mashing = conversion of starch to malt sugars (second point of entry)
  
  
  
  lautering = separation of the suger solution from the mash
  
  
  
• boiling the wort, trub filtration, chilling the wort
  
  
  
  boiling the wort (malt sugar solution + hops / takes about 1 hour) (third point of entry)
  
  
  rest of images follows soon!
• primary fermentation, secondary fermentation, racking, carbonisation

• from barley malt to sugars, the boil, the fermentation

• from grinding the grains to chilling the wort
• primary and secondary fermentation

• fermentation
• fermentation continued, cooking the boil
• cooking the boil continued, mashing
• mashing continued

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