How Do You Get Good At Beer Making ?
The very first piece of advice that anyone will give you about becoming good at beer making is that insisting on extended
sampling of everything you brew will definitely slow down the beer making process. After a while you start to slur your speech and then you
forget where you are and then the next thing you know you wake up in the neighbor's yard with a mouth full of dirt and the neighbor's wife
wondering what horrible neighborhood pet ate her flower garden.
It is just a good idea to exercise restraint and control and the first thing you should really do when you are learning the beer making is
learn how to properly taste your beer. There are ways of sampling beer and knowing what you are looking for and there are ways of sampling
beer that feel like they require some potato chips and a poker game to be right. Just take it easy when you are first learning beer making
and try to exercise all of the smart decisions that any responsible person would make.
Remember that you will need to make notes during your entire beer making process and these are not just casual notes either. Anything
you do and any changes you make to the recipes you are trying will result in different results and you would hate to get the result you want and
then not know how in the world you got there.
So when you are experimenting with your recipes in the beer making you may want to treat it like a medical search for the cure for a
disease. Keep very detailed notes and always note every step of every part of the process so that you can recreate the process exactly and
when I say every step I mean everything. From what you used to clean the equipment all the way to exactly how much of each ingredient you
added. Keep track of it all so you know how you got there.
Be The Responsible Brewer
It may work better if you found a room in the house you can experiment with your beer making that is not the kitchen because you will
have a lot of equipment out for a long time and that can get in the way of every day life. So set aside a room in the house designated for
just beer making and you will be much happier and so will everyone else in the house.
Always start every recipe experiment with a clean slate. Develop a cleaning routine for the equipment that you follow every time until
you find that magic mixture. Clean everything from the fermenting bucket to the plastic tubes connecting everything and you should have no
problem finding that right recipe.
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