Making beer is pretty easy. I always tell people: if you can boil water, tell time and be clean, you can make beer. The clean part is the most important. Malt i

Making beer is pretty easy. I always tell people: if you can boil water, tell time and be clean, you can make beer. The clean part is the most important. Malt is a perfect medium to grow all kinds of critters and until the yeast have established themselves, there is risk of infection (no health risks, but funky flavors). Recipes are equipment and process dependent, and don't scale in a perfectly linear fashion but those are refinement. Grab a copy of Papazian's The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing and "relax, don't worry and have a homebrew"