How do you brew home made beer without boiling water?

You can boil the water, or use chemicals to make sure only the “good” stuff grows. Add what grows in your work, will end up in the taste of the beer. I pick boiling over chemicals. Hope that helps.

To the person(now people) above me. Thats acutally not the only reason for boiling water. You boil water for several reasons, the major one being to extract oils from the hops. Also you need to heat water in order to convert the starch in the grain into sugar, via enzymatic action of 2 primary enzymes namely, alpha amylase and beta amylase.

The reason you can make beer in the beer machine is probably because its uses Malt extract syrup that is prehopped. Malt extract is malted grain(means they let it sprout then dry it, when it sprouts that produces the enzymes that convert the starch) that has already been heated to convert the starch into sugar, they they either boil it down to a syurp or dry it to a powder.

If I had to guess they beer machine kit has pasturized MEA syrup that is already mixed to the correct specific gravity and then you just add yeast to it.

I actually had a beer machine, but I never used the thing and never had an ingredients kit for it. IMO you would be MUCH better off with a basic beer brewing kit. Assuming you want beer that actually tastes good.

If you have any questions about homebrewing feel free to ask me.

Here's a link to the type of kit I'm talking about.

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/brewing-basics-equi...

In the end its going to be a lot cheaper and you will make much better beer than the beer machine.

You can get the beginners beer kits here:

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/homebrewing-ingredi...

Once you do a few you can get some more equipment and step up to partial mash kits or all grain brewing. The beer kits are cheaper than the beer machine and you have WAYYYY more variety of beers you can make, also you can buy those type of kits at any homebrew shop, not just from the beer machine ppl.

You don't need boiling water at all

As long as you get your liquid to about 20 C the yeast will kick into life.

This is usually done with a mix of boiling and cold water, but theres nothing to stop you using hot tap water instead (in fact this is exactly what I do a lot of the time when I'm brewing).

You also don't need boiling water to sterilise your equipment, hot tap water + either a commercial brewing steriliser, or baby bottle steriliser, will do the job just as well.

I do disagree with their 7 - 10 day estimate though.

the initial brewing should be finished in that time, but it will need to condition for at least 2 weeks (in either bottle or pressure barrel) to clear, and let secondary fermentation take place

The only reason for boiling the water, is to remove the cahcne of unwanted microorganisms being in the water that might overwhelm the yeast. People have been making brew for millenia without boiling the water.

There are SO many reasons for not using toy kits like the Beer Machine. This is just one of them. You could, I suppose, use distilled water but you need hot to boiling water to dissolve the malt extract without having to stir it for a couple of hours.

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