Craft beer is a long-standing type of beer that is popular with many people. Making craft beer is not too difficult but requires experience, creativity, and meticulousness to create unique flavors. If you want to learn more about craft beer and how to make it in detail, please refer to Websosanh.vn now:
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1. Concept of craft beer
Craft beer Also known by other names such as: craft beer, craft beer. This is a beer brewed with traditional ingredients combined with infinite creativity from brewers and brewed manually for a long time, with diverse flavors and colors. In particular, the quantity produced is less than industrial draft beer, often with a relatively high alcohol content, focusing more on the flavor and color of the beer and the porosity of the beer foam.
In the world, craft beer has been around for a long time and has been on the rise since the 1990s. In the Vietnamese market, the trend of drinking a lot of craft beer started around 2015 – 2016. As if to find a new flavor besides the familiar industrial beers. Meanwhile, craft beer bars have also begun to appear more to introduce and reach consumers to enjoy and experience.
2. Review craft beer in detail about design, ingredients and types
If you are new and have not enjoyed it yet craft beer Ever, you must be very curious about the design, ingredients, and types of craft beer before making a decision to choose. Right now, we invite you to review craft beer in detail with Websosanh.vn:
2.1. Design
Due to promoting creativity, craft beer is brewed and brewed manually by each different artisan. Accordingly, they will build their own product a unique shape, brand story, and personality. However, among the types of craft beer available on the market today, we still see the following common points in design:
Usually stored in steel tanks, keg bombs or specialized wooden barrels and taken directly from the tap to serve drinkers directly at the bar with specialized beer glasses.
With a convenient form, craft beer is often stored in aluminum cans or glass bottles with a capacity of 330ml similar to industrial beers. The usual packaging is 6 cans, a small box of 12 cans and a box of 24 cans made of sturdy cardboard. In bottle form, there are bags of 6 bottles, boxes of 20 bottles or mixed flavors in combos of 6, 9, 12 depending on the customer’s preference and the seller.
Craft beer is available in both can and 330ml bottle designs.
Not only does the design vary in many forms, but the ingredients of craft beer also do not have any specific, clear standards. Because it depends a lot on the qualifications, experience, and skills of the craft beer brewers.
Accordingly, the main ingredients of craft beer are usually water, hops, yeast and malt. In many cases, to reduce costs, people can replace some of the main ingredients malt with cereals, rice or corn.
Besides, there are many other auxiliary ingredients to create different flavors and colors for the product. Common craft beer colors such as black, red, yellow, etc. are due to the combination of additional ingredients such as fruits, vegetables, herbs, coffee beans, etc. Many places brew craft beer to create unique flavor that no one else has, they also add other ingredients such as: pepper, coriander, papaya, buckwheat, cocoa beans,…
2.3. Popular craft beers on the market today
On the market today there are many types of craft beer because the creativity of brewers is limitless, so there is no exact number indicating how many types of craft beer there are on the market. Accordingly, the types only differ slightly in ingredients, color, flavor, alcohol content and incubation time, but the main ingredients and method of preparation are almost the same.
Here are the most popular types of craft beer that you can buy or enjoy when you go to craft beer bars near where you live:
IPA beer: This is the most popular type of craft beer. The special feature of this craft beer is that it is very smooth to drink, has a fruity taste that is quite easy to drink, and is cheap. Drinking menu with basic dishes such as: Ninh Thuan lamb, salt-roasted chicken, onion marinated beans,… quite delicious and delicious.
Smoky beer: This is a bit harder to drink than IPA. The smoky taste is like enjoying buffalo meat in the kitchen. Drink it with side dishes like kale, salad, and other lighter dishes that are easier to get into.
Double IPA beer: This is a heavier beer than a regular IPA. If you don’t get used to drinking it, you get drunk very quickly.
Dark beer (Brown Chocolate): Has normal bitterness, has a caramel coffee flavor and is quite suitable for eating with German-style stewed pork leg, bread with cheese sauce.
Red Ale: This beer has a honey taste and a bit of fruit flavor so it’s quite easy to drink.
Apple Cider: Alcohol content is quite light, drinks like Strongbow fruit beer, suitable even for women.
In general, craft beer is quite heavy, not light like draft beer or industrial draft beer. Drinking a few cups makes you feel drunk. The price of craft beer at pubs is not cheap. A small glass costs about 25,000 VND/glass. There are many places that sell cheap to stimulate customer demand, so the price per glass can be around 15,000 VND.
Popular craft beers on the market today (Photo: Beercraft).
3. Simple way to make craft beer to enjoy
How to make craft beer It’s not difficult, but not everyone can do it because it requires extensive experience and infinite passion and creativity from the brewer. To try making your own batch of craft beer, you need:
Prepare full equipment for cooking and brewing beer such as: boiler, blender, filter, fermentation tank, specialized beer tank, etc.
Prepare all main and auxiliary ingredients for brewing beer
Clean beer brewing equipment and clean ingredients before cooking to avoid contamination and affect beer quality.
3.1. Ingredients need to be prepared
Munich Malt: 675g
Hallertau Mittelfruh hops: 5g
Enamel: Saflager W-34/70
Water: 5.75 liters
In case you cannot buy Munich Malt, you can replace it with cereals, corn, rice, etc. The above data is the standard data for a batch of 5 liters of beer. If you cook a smaller experiment, you can divide the above data into a suitable ratio.
3.2. Detailed steps to make craft beer
Step 1: Check and crush the Malt/cereal with a specialized machine to ensure that the grain size is moderate and does not split after crushing.
Step 2: Pour the crushed ingredients and add additional ingredients into warm water at a temperature of 46 – 48 degrees Celsius. Maintain the temperature at 65 – 70 degrees Celsius for 60 – 90 minutes to get a paste solution. Continue heating during the cooking process and check saccharification with iodine solution until a blue color appears.
Step 3: Filter the sugar solution, add water at 76 degrees Celsius to wash the wort residue and squeeze dry the remaining beer wort.
Step 4: Boil the sugar solution. Filter and measure sugar with a sugar meter.
Step 5: When the saccharification process is finished, add hops to the sugar solution and continue boiling to create a mild bitterness and aroma for the beer. During the second 60 – 90 minute boiling process, you can add hops several times and test to get the desired aroma and bitterness. Combine and measure the sugar level with a sugar meter again to have a balanced taste between sweet and bitter.
Step 6: Cool the sugar solution after boiling it to fermentation temperature by placing the pot in a basin of cold water. Then cool the sugar solution down to 20 – 25 degrees Celsius to be ready for the fermentation process.
Step 7: Add yeast to the sugar solution and brew beer for 21 – 30 days.
Step 8: After the brewing stage, continue filtering the beer and steaming to get the final product.
Step 9: Enjoy directly or bottle and store to enjoy gradually.
How to make craft beer, important steps to remember.
These are just the very basic steps in How to make craft beer manual cooking. It is not certain that you will be successful from the beginning, so cultivate and learn more in-depth knowledge if you intend to seriously brew craft beer! Wish you success!
