Comment Re:Home Brewers (Score 2, Interesting) 393
This is indeed true.
Especially if you do not use the "liquid" malt kits as you mentioned.
The combination of malt, water, hops and yeast is all that is really needed to create beer. It just happens that alcohol is a "by product" of the process. Not that there's anything wrong with that :-)
You'll also note that in trying to create stronger beers, they usually turn out tasting only "so so" if you're lucky. Beer is meant to be somewhere in the range of 4%-6% alcohol maximum.
If you want something even more like "food" try brewing meade. Honey is yummy.
Cheers
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Especially if you do not use the "liquid" malt kits as you mentioned.
The combination of malt, water, hops and yeast is all that is really needed to create beer. It just happens that alcohol is a "by product" of the process. Not that there's anything wrong with that
You'll also note that in trying to create stronger beers, they usually turn out tasting only "so so" if you're lucky. Beer is meant to be somewhere in the range of 4%-6% alcohol maximum.
If you want something even more like "food" try brewing meade. Honey is yummy.
Cheers
zip
