These instructions take into account your boil size. Since most new brewers only have small pots to boil in, it is important to take into account the specific gravity of your wort. The amount of bitterness that is extracted from hops is affected by time, temperature and gravity.Therefor if you want to maximize your hop bitterness and you are boiling less than 5 gallons of wort, you need to lower the amount of malt extract in your boil pot.
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Understanding Beer – A Broad Overview of Brewing, Tasting and Analyzing Beer
By Jon Griffin
What is Beer?
Beer in its basic form is an alcoholic beverage made from barley, hops, water and yeast. In fact the Reinheitsgebot German Purity Law adopted in 1516, states “the only ingredients used for the brewing of beer must be barley, hops, yeast and water“. This is the oldest provision that protects consumers in the world.
Before and even after that time outside of Germany, many other ingredients were added to beer and some of them were poison. Many of these optional ingredients are still used today in other styles of beer and are called “adjuncts”. Some common adjuncts used are sugar, rice, corn and molasses. Wheat is also technically an adjunct and the Reinheitsgebot has been amended to allow this adjunct.
Ale v Lager
