Brewing Beer

I have always been fascinated by beer. My kids bought me a Mr Beer kit 10 years ago for Christmas. I made a few batches and they were interesting to say the least. I like all kids of beer. Beer is yummy. So, I have been thinking about taking the plunge and buying a real beer brewing kit. While searching for beer stuff on the Internet I found a pretty cool store for brewing equipment. http://store.homebrewheaven.com/ This site has all sorts of kits. They even have user reviews and question that the staff answers.

I also found a magazine that's "All About Beer" http://www.allaboutbeer.com After receiving my first issue, I read it cover to cover. I realized I have alot to learn about beer.

I was standing in the bathroom at a micro brewery in Fort Walton Beach called Santa Rosa Brewery. I saw an old article from the 1800's about alcohol fermentation. Here it is:

SOLUTION OF THE SECRET OF ALCOHOLIC FERMENTATION
by Freidrich Woehner and Justus von Liebig

Beer yeast, when dispersed in water, breaks down into an infinite number of small spheres. If these spheres are transferred to an aqueous solution of sugar they develop into small animals. They are endowed with a sort of suction trunk with which they gulp up the sugar from the solution. Digestion is immediately and clearly recognized because of the discharge of excrements. These animals evacuate ethyl alcohol from their bowels and carbon dioxide from their urinary organs. Thus one can observe how a specifically lighter fluid is exuded from the anus and rises vertically whereas a stream of carbon dioxide is ejected at very short intervals from their enormously large genitals.

- Annals of Chemistry, Volume 29, 1839

Good stuff, I love it.

Well, I hope you will follow my beer adventures. I am ready to buy my kit and try my hand and crafting my own beers.

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