Craft a Brew catalyst User Manual

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO CRAFT BEER ........................2

BEER INGREDIENTS .............................................3

WHAT’S IN THE BOX ............................................5

BREWING INSTRUCTIONS ................................... 7

SANITATION ........................................................8

FERMENTING WITH THE CATALYST ....................9

BOTTLING ...........................................................11

introduction

to craft beer

Craft brewing is a unique outlook on brewing that aims to formulate
beer that is flavorful and distinctive rather than most beer on the
market that aims to have mass appeal in order to sell the most
product. This mass produced beer has cheap alternative ingredients
such as rice or corn, which keep costs down but don’t add to the flavor
or complexity of the beer.

Craft beer is the complete opposite. Craft brewers strive to source
out quality ingredients from all over the world using only the purest
and most flavorful blends of malted barley, hops, water and yeast.
Craft beer can also get fairly extreme, whether it is a highly hopped
India Pale Ale created by adding copious amounts of the world’s
most potent hops or a strong Belgian ale pushed to it’s alcohol limit
by adding a few pounds of Belgian candy sugar. Craft beer can be an
experiment in how far you can push the traditional limits of brewing to
create a one of a kind beer that no one has ever experienced.

So enjoy those unique flavors
you’ll experience when tasting
your first batch of fresh home
brew and remember that you
had a hand in being part of one
of the oldest traditions of man
by crafting your own beer!

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BEER INGREDIENTS

Malted barley is the primary source of
fermentable sugars in brewing. When the yeast
is added to the wort (unfermented beer­pronounced “wert”) they will convert these
sugars to alcohol. In our kits we use quality
malted barley extract that is 100% natural
with no additives. Using malt extract has some
advantages over brewing with all grain, the
biggest being time and convenience. The all­grain brewing process generally takes 3+ hours,
while extract brewing takes about 90 minutes
without compromising quality or taste.

We also incorporate a variety of specialty
grains into our kits which add to the complexity
and color of the beer.

Hops are used to balance the flavors in beer.
Without hops, beer would be sweet, yet the
bitter acids and oils in the hops help to balance
the flavor profile and add aroma. Hops are grown
all around the world and come in many varieties,
each having their own distinct characteristics.
Hops also have the benefit of acting as a natural
preservative; one of the most famous examples
of this is seen in the Indian Pale Ale, or IPA­style of beer. The preservative qualities of hops
originally helped this highly hopped beer survive
the long voyage from Britain to India and thus
the popular IPA-style was born.

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