I know that you can make regular beer at home with a “Mr.Brew” but I was wondering are there any non-alcoholic kits. Will it work without a kit? I don’t drink. I’m just curious. I knew this guy who said he make alcohol in jail with juice or something.
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No it’s not possible to make non-alcoholic beer while home brewing. It’s a complex process to take the alcohol out of the beer.
Why waste the time and money just drink soda then….
It’s very possible to do, but a waste of time and resources, and will taste bad. Better off just making tea.
the only way that I can think of taking the alcohol out of beer without distilling, would be know as freeze distilling. Put the beer in your freezer, the water in the beer will freeze, but the alcohol will not. It is slightly more complicated than what I explained, but that is the general consept. Plus, it is not considered home-distillation, so it is legal.
No it’s not.
To make non-alcoholic (NA) beer, it is first brewed as regular, alcoholic beer (malt, yeast, hops, etc.). The flavors in beer are a direct result of the fermentation process…you can’t do that without making alcohol as a result.
To remove the alcohol without destroying the delicate flavors of the malt and hops, they can’t heat it up to boil off the alcohol. What has to happen is to use a vacuum pump to reduce the pressure to reduce the boiling temperature. Then, it takes only a minor rise in temperature to cause the alcohol to boil away…but not enough to damage the flavors.
The rig necessary to accomplish this would not be readily available to home-brewers….big, and expensive.