This would give you a heads-up on what to expect as you start with the brewing process. Take note of things that are unclear to you and ask about them later as you go to a home brewing store. 2. Go to the nearest home brewing store in your area Drop by to a local home brewing store where you can buy your home brewing supplies. Beer and wine are quite arguably the most popular among home brewers but brewers who produce cider, silju (a Finish home-brewed alcoholic beverage), ginger beer, Kumis, Sake (Japanese rice wine), Chhang (a popular Tibetan alcoholic beverage), Kvass (a Polish bread drink), mead or honey wine, and kombucha are not uncommon favorites. After some retrenchments, the number dwindled to 550, one of the reasons being the rising costs of materials. Commercial breweries have permeated the fabric of society since then, but while home brewing was still legal, it dropped down in popularity and was relegated to "connoisseurs" and fanatics. For that matter, beer that you brew by your own has more amounts of yeast with Vitamin B. Improves Social Life You got to admit that you'd appear like a cool cat once the word spreads among your friends and colleagues. Why not, since beer is in itself cool? For one, you will get more visits from people who want to give your beer a once over. After preparing those mentions above, we are now ready for the steps. 1. Boil one galloon of water in the pot. 2. When boiling, pour the one can of malt extract. The malt extract is a thick and condense syrup, so while pouring it on the boiling water, you must also simultaneously stirs it, so as to mix it well and prevent the extract from reaching the bottom of the pot and get burned. In order to avoid duplicating these, make sure that you are aware of some of these mistakes. Listed below are some of the well-documented mistakes by many first-timers in the field of beer making at home. One major mistake that is often reported concerns sanitation. Many upstart home brewers right now doesn't know a thing or two about sanitation.