How to Brew Your Own Beer

1. Overview
There are many advantages to brewing your own beer. Firstly, the price is much lower per beer. Imagine paying $0.20 per beer instead of paying $0.70 per beer at the store. In addition to this, the quality and type of beer can be easily customized to the brewer's taste.
2. My audience consists of beer drinkers. This is directed at people who have a wide appreciation for different types of beers.
3. The purpose is to explain to the audience how they can produce their own beer for a much lower price than store-bought beer.
4. Prereq: Reader must have some appreciation for the taste for beer; not Budweiser, beer. Supplies: malted barley or malt extract; hops; yeast; santitized 5 gallon bucket with airtight lid; 1.5' rubber tube; cup of water;duct tape.

5. How to brew your own beer:
1. The first step to making beer is the actual brewing. Brewing is the steeping of organic material in a liquid in order to extract the organic sugars into the water for about 40 minutes(in the case of beer, barley. In the case of budweiser, rice).
Then, you will want to add hops or hops extract to the warm wort.
If you are making beer with malt barley extract that has hops extract included, this step is already done for you. In this case, simply boil 3 gallons of water (to sanitize the water), let it cool, and add the extract. Once this is done, pour the wort(water-barley extract) into the 5 gallon bucket.
***For higher alcohol beer, add cane sugar and increase fermentation time.***
2. Next, seal the lid on the bucket. Use a blade to widdle a small(.25") holein on the lid. Take the rubber hose, and insert it into hole. Use duct tape to make the seal airtight. Then, flip the lid over. Use a small peice of duct tape to tape the end of the hose to the bottom of the lid to ensure that the end is not underwater. Put lid back on the bucket. Then, take a cup of water, and place it on top of the bucket. Insert the end of the hose into the water. This allows for gases to escape the bucket, without letting any in.
3. Set the bucket in a cool, dark area for 9-12 days. You should begin to notice bubbles coming out of the airlock after one day. Once the gas bubbles stop, the fermentation process is complete.
4. Bottling time! Before you bottle, you want to add 1/2tspn of sugar per 12 oz beer. While the beer sits in the bottle, the yeast converts the left over sugar to ethanol and carbon dioxide. Because, this time around, the carbon dioxide has no place to go, it remains in the beer as carbonation. It is possible to syphen the gas into the bottles. One could also add a spout to the bottom of the bucket. Beer can be bottled in any "pop-top" style glass bottles(such as recycled heineken) or any plastic bottles that have previously held carbonation. I prefer to use liter or two liter soda bottles, as these are my typical units for measuring beer. Once the bottle is filled an inch or two below the top, make sure the cap is closed tightly. If you are using glass, you will need a bottle capper. Once again put the beer in a cool, dark area. Wait 14-21 days. After that, the beer should have ample carbonation. Further aging may improve quality.
5. Drink. All of it; right now! Relax and enjoy your beer as you reflect on your accomplishment of learning the process of beer making. You can reuse the bottles for making more beer, just don't recycle them. Recycling is more annoying than weak-tasting beer. Brake them. Fill them with water, cap them, and refill your buddy's case. Or just save them for the trashmen. In fact, you should drive to the landfill right now, before they close!