Start Friday, January 11 2002.
We use the Brewform beer kits; they contain all the
ingredients (cereals, hops, sugars) in their exact amounts. The beer which
we are about to brew is called “Brugs tarwebier”, a white beer made from
wheat.
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The beer kit is heated in a pan with hot water until the contents is liquid.
We use another saucepan to dissolve 750 g of sugar in 2 litres of warm
water.
We put the brewer’s yeast in 150 ml of water at 25° C.
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We sterilize all our materials and the fermentation vessel by washing them
with a sulphite solution.
Then we ladle the liquid malt and the dissolved sugar in our fermentation
vessel
We add cold, pure water (approximately 16l).
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When the wort reaches about 20° C we add the yeast and cover the
fermentation vessel with a water seal.
We carefully spin the vessel in order to mix all ingredients thoroughly.
We take a sample and determine the specific gravity of the solution.
We move the fermentation vessel to a warm spot.
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After 7 days the fermentation process slows down. Once more we assess the
specific gravity.
We add the remaining sugar (150 g) for the second fermentation.
We clean the beer bottles with a sulphite solution. Then they receive a
thorough cleaning with water. We fill the beer bottles with a siphon and
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We move them to a warm spot. The second fermentation takes about one week.
The beer is stored cold (about 10° C) for another 8 weeks.
5 TW
Stella Maris
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