From an idea to a Beer.

Decide on style or type of beer.

Research beer to be made

Design recipe and water treatment

Select and acquire all ingredients

Culture or buy yeast

Step up yeast culture

Weigh and mill Grist

Mash in grist and desired water treatment to hit correct PH

Sparge and run off sweet Wort into kettle

Boil wort with hop additions for bittering,flavor and aroma

Cool and whirlpool Wort

Run off into fermenter

Ferment at required temperature

Add clarifying agents and crash chill

Cold condition till beer is bright

Keg or bottle condition

Age then sample

This is a really simple diagram of how the major processes that go into creating a new beer work for me. I will start with the finished product that I have in mind then work through the steps on how to create that end product.