Beer Making Steps These are the steps I use to make virtually all of my malt extract beer recipes. Put 2 gallons of water in a large brewing pot Put crushed grains in a brewing bag and add grain bag to pot Bring water to 150 degrees then turn off heat, cover, and let sit for 30 minutes Remove grain bag from the pot Bring wort to a boil, remove from heat, and stir in liquid or dried malt extract Return to heat and bring to a boil Put bittering hops into brewing bag and add hop bag to boiling wort After 60 minutes, remove from heat, remove bittering hop bag from the pot Put flavoring hops into brewing bag and steep hop bag in hot wort After 15 minutes, remove flavoring hop bag from the pot Stir in honey (if used), and any spices (if used) Add several large hunks of ice to brew pot to cool the liquid a little Put several large hunks of ice in plastic primary fermenter Pour wort over ice in primary fermenter Bring water level up to 5 gallons Cool to room temp, measure and record SG Pitch rehydrated yeast Ferment in primary for 10-14 days If high SG (more than 8lbs malt and/or honey) then rack to secondary and age for a couple months Rack to bottle filling bucket Heat 3/4 cup priming sugar and 1 cup water in a sauce pan until sugar is dissolved Add liquid priming sugar to bottle filling bucket Fill and cap bottles Carbonation takes about 10 days, high gravity brews will require more time to age and carbonate