How To Brew Beer In A Coffee Pot

Yes, another alcohol-centric post…

It appears your coffee pot can not only brew the dark, caffinated wake-up plasma, but beer as well. Bill Drew over at All About Beer Magazine has a vividly detailed article up on how to brew beer in a coffee pot. Here’s a snippit:

Brewery tours are a golden opportunity for brewers to educate visitors about the art of brewing. But any brewery employee who has been assigned tour guide duty has seen the confusion on people’s faces when you describe the brewing process. To the visitor, brewing can sound like a return to high school chemistry-with some alchemy thrown in. The process of brewing coffee, I discovered, was a good way to relate the brewing process to people who do not understand zymurgy, the technical term for making beer. This became more than a useful analogy: with familiar kitchen equipment, you can repeat the steps of the process that goes on in breweries large and small-and make a very small batch of beer.
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Place the jar in a cool, dark place. The sweet liquor will become beer in five to seven days. Wasn’t that easy?

This one is probably not for me. I couldn’t possibly have the coffee pot tied up for even a few minutes for anything non-coffee related, and a 5-7 day wait for the beer would be waaay too long, but your addictions opinions may differ.

[Source: All About Beer]