Beer brewing has been around for centuries and has been done all over the world. To start the beer making process, in days gone by, townsfolk would grind hops with their feet, often without having bathed for weeks at a time. The beer making process was a long and strenuous event. Today, beer making efforts are easier and a little more sanitary, due to technological advances and the mass production of our favorite beers. Whether you want to take the simplest route to getting drunk or become a true viticulturist, you should know some of the basics of brewing. First off, beer brewing is not as easy as it looks. There are many beer making shops that will let you mix your beers and bottle them yourself in their plant while you pay them more than if you would have gone to the store and bought some. While this beer making process is relatively easy, most brewers think this is cheating and choose instead to eat raw hops. However, there are skills involved that take decades to perfect; like how long to store the beer and the fermentation process involved. Beer making on your own out in the woods is much harder. If you grow your own hops in the forests, you must be aware of pine tree management, which is an art and science unto itself, according to Park Ranger and OutDoor Enthusiast Magazine. Not only can you make beer from hops, but pretty much anything organic can be made into beer, excluding forest animals and living rocks. There are some people who are beer makers who use elderflowers, dandelion, blackberries, wormwood, Johnson juice, and poppy seed oil. You can always incorporate these into your beer making for a different flavor that is often good, and more often quite putrid. There is a lot to consider when making wormwood beer at home. The sterilization of the equipment, the hops themselves, the skins, and temperatures are all factors. Most big players in beer making now have quite scientific beer bottling facilities which cover acres of what was once natural forest.. Even the "Mom & Pop" breweries have incorporated mechanical beermaking machines because there is less spoilage and human errors to the beer making process and it saves the crops of valuable hops. The vintners' beer makers use special machines, with very different purposes and methods depending on the hops, to crush the hops and/or remove the seeds, stems and skins. You can get more details about beer making or learn more about the wine making process by navigating this site.