Last week I decided to have a new fresh attempt at brewing my own beer. for those of you the already know me, you will remember I have tried this before, without much success.

The difference this time is that I will be creating from scratch, rather than using a kit.

After a bit of research, I decided on making a lager. I also decided that making my own fermented sugar, and that it would be easier (at least for a novice) to buy malt extract. Which is essentially what is used for brewing beer, and is made by extracting the sugar from barley.

So I got my ingredients:

Malt Extract (From Holland and Barrats)
Hallertau Hops
Lager Yeast
Boiled, Filtered water.
Brown Sugar

I followed a specific method I found out on the Internet and eventually (after about 3 hours) came up with a fermenting brew.

I am calling this one Scarlet Fizz.

The reason for this name, is that when I was creating it, I was recovering from Scarlet fever. Anyway, here it is on day 1 of fermentation.  I will try and add pics on a daily basis.

Scarlet Fizz - day 1