I managed to find a spare few hours and decided to have a go at my first brew using real ingredients, no malt extract. Just water, malted barley, hops and yeast. Oh and a little sugar at bottling to give it a bit of fizz. I tried my first bottle last night and I have to say it was pretty tasty. So much so that I couldn’t resist one more, just to make sure!
I used a simplified process known as Brew In A Bag – BIAB which makes the whole thing fairly straightforward and doesn’t require much extra equipment to that which I already owned. Just a large bag.
Here’s how it’s done:
