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Brew a beer

Beer is made in four moves. You pull sugar out of grain by steeping it in hot water. You boil that sweet liquid with hops, which makes it bitter and stops it spoiling. You cool it and add yeast, which eats the sugar and turns it into alcohol. Then you carbonate it and wait. Everything else is detail — and the detail is where the beer actually comes from.

  1. Water
  2. Grain
  3. Mash
  4. Sparge
  5. Boil & hops
  6. Chill
  7. Ferment
  8. Condition
  9. Taste
Or open a finished recipe A complete, brewed beer you can pull apart. Good for seeing what a change does.
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