COOK like a PRO

Make your own vegan beer

PART 11: Brew your own vegan beer at home

If you’re worried about purchasing beer that may not be 100 per cent vegan-friendly, why not try brewing your own? This will give you the control to choose exactly what you put into your beer and how you brew it, without the unnecessary use of animal products.

THE INGREDIENTS

You can think of beer as a beverage made from (essentially) four ingredients using four main steps. The four basic ingredients in beer are malt, hops, yeast and water.

Malt – malt is a grain that has been prepared for brewing (by a process called, not surprisingly, malting). Malted barley is the most common base grain used in beer. In some beers, unmalted ingredients – including corn and rice – are used. Malt provides the sugar that the yeast consumes during the brewing process and therefore determines the strength of the beer.