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Brewing beer is composed of many steps. Each step will make your beer taste better or not. Only when every detail is done will there be good results.

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Is constant temperature fermentation necessary?

Most styles of beer are fermented at a constant temperature if possible. But some I will use yeast suitable for high temperature fermentation, let the fermentation liquid naturally rise to 26 degrees, and produce more flavor substances.

 

What are the ways to increase the sweetness of beer?

Ways to increase sweetness are:

Increasing the temperature during saccharification produces more non-fermentable sugars.

Increase the non-fermentable sugar malt in the malt, such as crystalline malt and roasted malt.

Add non-fermentable sugars, such as lactose.

 

How to collect yeast?

First of all, it is best to collect the yeast that has been fermented for less than 10 days. Taking 20 liter equipment as an example, sterilize 4 bottles in advance. The bottles are preferably 3 liters, 2 liters, 1 liter, 500 ml, and prepare 4 liters. Sterile water. The operating environment should be as clean as possible. Pour beer for 10 days in a barrel, then pour 1-2 liters of sterile water into a barrel with yeast precipitation, shake it into a 3 liter bottle, close the lid, put in Precipitate in the refrigerator for 20 minutes, then discard the top supernatant and a small portion of yeast, leaving the bottom 1/5 yeast. Pour the other into the 2 liter bottle, add a certain amount of sterile water, shake it well and put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. Repeat the above steps and pour into a 1 liter bottle. In the final 500ml bottle is the most active yeast

 

Can you talk about water treatment?

There are many ways of water treatment, commonly used: tap water directly after boiling, activated carbon filtration, RO reverse osmosis filtration.

After the tap water is boiled, it is more time-consuming and labor-intensive, which increases the time cost and is suitable for friends who do not brew often.

Activated carbon filtration can remove chlorine gas, but can not remove calcium and magnesium ions, but for the local water quality by adding some salts, such as calcium chloride, calcium sulfate, can brew most styles of beer. Suitable for ordinary brewers.

RO reverse osmosis filtered water needs to add various ions to meet the requirements of mimicking the quality of water around the world, and can be brewed in all styles. Suitable for home brew enthusiasts.

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