Ale-Making

There are roughly four steps to ale-making:

Mashing – mixing a source of starch, e.g. malted barley, with hot water to make wort Kettling – boiling the wort in a copper kettle with hops and other ingredients such as herbs and sugars Fermenting – the cooled mixture is put into a fermentation tank and yeast is added Conditioning – the liquid is stored in a keg and allowed to age before being imbibed. It strikes me that writing follows a similar process: Preparation – deciding what kind of st...