The Basic Simple Step By Step Of How I Brew Extract Beer

This is the full step by step method that I use for making my extract beers and ales. It is incredibly simple and a time and time again proven method. This will result in a bodied beer of around 4.5% by volume.

The method I use a involves only boiling a small volume of the wort and dried extract with the hops, and then adding the remaining extract after the boil.  I make batches of 23 litres (5 UK gallons), and my boil volume is 8 litres, which is roughly a third of the full volume.  This has 2 main advantages: