Six Steps to Brewing Beer

In most cases, during the beermaking process, we do not need to make specific plans and decisions for each issue, but only need to follow the previous operating techniques and procedures. When it comes to brewing a new, classic-style beer, it's best to plan and calculate every step of the way.

Here's a look at six steps to brewing a great new beer to help you ensure the brewing process is effectively managed.

1. Formulate the target product and describe the style characteristics of the product

Content can include styles of beer brewing, ingredients required, and more. To accurately describe the style of beer, do the following work, such as:

How many liters of beer do you need to brew in the end?

Do you use ale yeast, lager yeast, or other specialty yeast?

What is the specific value or range of raw wort concentration planned to be brewed?

What is the approximate Bitterness Value (IBU) planned to be achieved?

What is the planned chromaticity?

Which malt indicators are suitable or meet the program requirements?

What hop aroma and aroma profile are required?

What other special ingredients (fruits, spices, syrups, etc.) need to be included, and how are they added?

2. Compile the mashing process, including the list, index and quantity of malt and concentrate

What base malt or concentrate do you plan to use?

What types of specialty malts do you plan to use, and in what proportions and quantities?

What type of mashing process is required?

What is the final concentration of the brewing process.

Brewhouse system

3. Determine the water quality requirements

What are the index requirements for raw water?

What ionic concentration of water is required for this planned beer?

What treatment options are required to achieve these ionic concentrations?

If water treatment is required, what effect do these additives have on saccharification?

Does the mashing process need to add other substances?

What is the total amount of water required? How much is the water for saccharification and the water for washing waste?

4. Determine the list of hops, including indicators and quantities

What characteristic hop aroma is required (source and type of hops)?

What characteristic hop flavor is required (source and type of hops)?

What is the desired hop bitterness value?

To determine the amount of aroma hops added, it is necessary to first calculate the possible impact of aroma hops on the IBU value. Subtract the IBU of the flavor hops from the total IBU to calculate the desired amount of bitter hops added.

5. Determine the fermentation process

What kind of yeast will be used?

What is the amount of yeast added?

What is the suitable fermentation temperature? How to control and monitor fermentation temperature?

What configuration of fermentation vessels will be used? Pneumatic valve or breathing valve?

Is a separate diacetyl reduction time required?

Do you need back storage?

Finalize the fermentation process

Stainless steel fermenters

6. Consider filtering and supplementing carbon dioxide

Does the beer need to be ready by a specific date?

What clarification methods will you use (boiling with Irish moss to clarify the wort, post-fermentation filtration, cryoprecipitation, or other fining agents)?

Ways to plan to replenish CO2?

What is the initial concentration or CO2 pressure required to achieve the desired CO2 level?

Beer is an indispensable part of modern life. After the precipitation of countless generations of brewers, beer brewing has become a craft that combines art and science. Therefore, to brew a new beer, the brewer must withstand it. Tests, repeated summaries, and continuous experiments, integrate a dedicated attitude and a sense of innovation into the pleasant brewing process, and brew with heart and love in order to obtain a favorite beer.