Can You Make Beer Using ONLY Supermarket Stuff ?
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2019
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Salut ! A few comments regarding your comments :
- Obviously I could have bought a home-brewing kit either in a brewer's shop or online as they are pretty affordable and widely available. But that is not the point of this video. It's here to introduce all of us to a world I did not even know existed and to entertain you along the way. Beer world is fascinating.
- The initial plan with yeast was to use and grow bottled conditioned beer leftovers as our own yeast strain. It obviously would have been better than using bread yeast. But after finding some, which was a big pain already that thing isn't widely available, real hard, we couldn't get any reliable success growing it.
- There is indeed no enzymatic action in our mash, but our malt extract is already fermentable and we don't need the sugars from the wheat and oats - just the starch for body, plus the flavour and proteins for head retention.
- (I'll update this comment if needed)
Awesome project, I can't wait to see how it turns out. Might have to try this myself some time? I made Finnish Sahti from scratch a few years ago, that was fun too!
Good idea, although i'm very dissapointed that for beer matters you went to Uk and not to Germany or Czech rep....
How about the chocolate series? You promised another video
and like that, you answered my only big question, harvesting yeast from a bottle conditioned beer could work, but you would have to get something that had not been pasteurized, assuming it was not, something as fresh (recently bottled) as possible could help, but still it is a tremendous pain without propper equipment, can't wait to see how it ends
i'm having trouble seeing the point of using supermarket wheat if it's not being converted to sugars. sure, the flavors and body of grain are important, but the entire point of the tradition was the production of sugar, and the flavor component was a subsequent evolution that slowly emerged from our primary requirement of alcohol (as was the co-evolution of our enjoyment of beer flavor). you're also violating the tradition that grain (like breakfast cereal) is cheap, after you've spent a lot of time and money gaining the expertise. were there no supermarket seeds suitable for germinating?
Milton for sterilising (in the baby aisle... tablets or liquid)... use it for my brewing. For yeast, buy one bottle of traditional “bottle conditioned” beer... There are loads now in supermarkets... drink it, but leave an inch in the bottom... add sugar and water and leave in a warm place to grow... creating a “yeast starter” of professional quality brewers yeast ready to pitch into your wort. Great video as ever, Alex. :-)
lee gosling ironically I’ve seen star San in grocery stores lately!
Kambucha would probably work too
@@oribennett6520 Kombucha has lactic and acetic acid bacteria in it in addition to yeast, so while it might work, you'll end up with a rather sour-tasting beer (and could probably just as well use a sourdough starter for the same effect too).
Dustin Brookens the "health food" shop near me sells brewing supplies now, it's not even a large shop so I was surprised
I wonder if he could have salvaged some living brewing yeast from the marmite. He said it has a joke, but i was like... wait a minute! I bet if you add some to a jar of warm water and sugar and wait a while, some of that yeast will wake up, but maybe not...
The cashier after seeing what they bought: ”Oh my, they’re going to throughoutly clean their home and then bake something delicious to their sweethearts! What a shame my sweetheart only thinks about beer...” •sigh•
Or in reality they don't give a shit
After this please make proper beer brewing series with home made equipment. Please
Then after that distillation to make liquor!!!
No
If you wanted, you could make beer and quite drinkable beer using as little equipment as a 20-liter pot, a nylon mesh brewing bag to contain the grains and hops, your brew kettle would have to double as your fermenter. Then some vinyl tubing and a bottling wand if you bought bottles with swing-top caps. To make about a 14-liter batch.
@Chuck Martin and how was it ?
@@skepticfucker280 Illegal in a lot of places unfortunately.
10:37 Alex: Do you think it can work?
You can literally read the other guy's thoughts... _I have no idea what you just said, but I'll go with it._ "YES".
The part where you explain the cups being stacked to prevent air getting in was gold 😂😂😂
Why not just stretch a balloon with a pinhole over the neck?
@@Eveseptir
The cup, if it has a curve will seal the bottle top and the pressure release can be controlled by adding weight to the top of the cup. I did this with the bottom of a pretzel container that I had lying around. Catch is I never actually tried to see of the mead was drinkable. I did this on the spur of the moment with some yeast I was about to throw out as it was old.
@@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv I know how the bubbler works; I was just suggesting that, since the CO2 will always give a pressure in the vessel, why* not just let it fill a balloon while letting the excess pressure out throught a pinhole. Seems simple to me, maybe it it too simple idk, never made booze.
@@Eveseptir
I have seen that suggestion before. For some reason its not something that is popular with those that into this sort of thing. I might be that it is not thought to be reliable. For short periods it should work, for long periods, like the time to age the hooch, rubber can get oxidized by ozone and then stiffen.
Ethelred Hardrede
@@Eveseptir or a condom... if it has no lube or other chemicals on it.
Dude: Nobody is doing grapefruit in beer
Schöfferhofer: Hold my Weizen.
Ive also seen grapefruit beer in Quebec so 🤷♂️
Brewdog Elvis Juice...
Lervig Lucky Jack Grapefruit is just one I know well but their are probably many more. I think he was being sarcastic ?
I love a cold Rattler
Radler, Shilling grapefruit cider, grapefruit just goes great with Alcohol especially my favorite drink of all time チューハイ
I enjoy the ad progress bar at the bottom of the video.
Yes. He spoil me. I miss it at other channels.
I wish that was a requirement for all in-video ads so we can skip them easier.
So happy I’m not the only one geeking out over his Kaweco sport fountain pen.
Nobody:
Alex:
"I'm just checking if this (bleach) have any flavor agent"
Actually he's right, bleach, medical alcohol and other not drinkable stuff can have strongly unpleasant flavor agent to avoid kids drinking them
Bleach companies: Hey Tide, can you give us the info for the PR person that handled your Tide Pods Challenge stuff? I think we are about to have a problem...
Good luck
unfortunately adding flavour agents to bleach is kinda a lost cause, its like the reason people got sick from the tide pod challenge is because they physically couldn't spit it out, ofc bleach might be different, its similar
Today's episode: Alex in British accent mode
Nah that sounds super Indian
I can't help but consider "A frenchmen goes to England to brew beer" to be the beginning of a joke. Note: You're not supposed to cut beer with a knife.
A Englishman goes to Germany to brew beer.... (come one let us have our national symbol, you already got the queen)
German national symbol is beer?
"Laugh in czech"
"There's no way you can find these ingredients in your supermarket"
*laughs in Oregon*
*Cackles in Portland/Vancouver*
Goes Heeeeeyuck in Georgia
My grandfather homebrewed, my Dad homebrewed, both my brother and I homebrewed … great vid and a nice change from the 'normal' cooking vidoes. Cheers, chappie!
I don't know if video length is 13 37 on purpose but the bleach thumbnail is a masterpiece
you can find fresh yeast in the uk by the butter...😂
I'm loving this series! A topic so close to my heart. Can't wait to see how it turns out. Good luck!
these guys are hilarious, you guys bounce ideas off each other and the chemistry is so good, I would love more collabs in the future
You could “harvest” yeast from a bottle conditioned beer you pickup at the grocery store. Then you could actually have beer yeast still.
You could, but you don't know which generation of yeast you will be putting in the wort. So yeah it would work, but it could give you some nasty off-flavours.
@@Aeguis Is commercial brewing yeast genetically modified or crossbread or something or why is the generation important for the flavour profile. Or has it to do with the cells being haploid or diploid?
Any beer available in stores should be pasteurised, so no alive yeast in those
How to make beer from supermarket ingredients :
- Buy beer
- That's all
Did somebody say BEERCEPTION?
I simply _cannot_ wait for the next episode. So exited!!!!
Ok I'm super excited about this and spreading it like bitter!
Butter.
@@albertledesma5173 yeah that's what I meant although Alex may branch out into brewing bitter
Rob Lawrence Good point.
Rob Lawrence Spill it like bitter?
@@albertledesma5173 buttah
"Sphread eet like buttah"
I'm so glad that the boys from the Craft Beer Channel look sceptical, they have their work cut out keeping you in line. I've been dreading this series since you first suggested making beer, it was never going to be normal. It's now like a road crash I want to look away but I can't and I can't unsee any of this.
10:24. Ahh, Mechanical Engineering. His expression isn’t confusion, it’s awe. Well done, Alex.
3:19 Was not expecting to see castle lager included in 1 of your videos 😀.
They had to show quality beer
10:23 his face is priceless!!
I am a food nerd in culinary school and I absolutely love this channel. Thank you for providing such quality videos Alex! 👌🤙
So you're making prison hooch?
Pruno! Modern rogue's tremendous success/failure was hilarious!
Taking a lot more steps than absolutely needed too.
Step 1: Buy jug of water (or juice), some honey (or sugar, but flavor), baker's yeast, and optionally some oranges and raisins. Oh, and a balloon.
Step 2: Pour a cup of water and drink it, then add the honey and yeast and raisins and the orange peels.
Step 3: Poke a tiny hole or three in the balloon and cap the jug. Leave like this for about a month in an ideally dark and somewhat cool place; in a cupboard under the counters usually works.
Step 4: Either drink it or siphon it off the sediment and let it spend some time mellowing out the flavors after initial brewong if you want slightly bettee tasting prison hooch.
@@SylviaRustyFae well now i have to try this. Thanks!
As a brewer, I'm both mortified and super curious about the results! Looking forward to the next video Alex!
In Finland you can buy beer brewing kits from supermarkets and wine kits too !
So excited for this series!
Looks fun! Can’t wait for next episode!
The reinheitsgebot is cringing at this video. Love brewing beer at home. This is very clever, great video.
The filming style in the supermarket was well done and interesting. Loved the intro edits too. This 'beer' sounds interesting, looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
Love your content Alex! Thank you!
Sooo hyped to see how this beer will come out! Though for the containers I think most supermarkets sell the huge tanks for the water dispensers like in an office.
3 of my favourites on YT making my favourite beverage - I press like!
This seems like heavy weather, in Australia you can buy beer making kits in the supermarket.
That is funny, and in the US 30 years ago or so it was Illegal to Brew Beer in your home... now there is a entire market built around it .
They use to sell them here in the states as well in supermarkets but dont because it never really sold anything so they stopped.
In America we sell beer making kits in super markets. Even the raw ingredients to make them.
Yes yeast and hops to.
Where in the U.S. do you live? I don't see yeast and hops at any of my local supermarkets.
If we got it in Ohio, it can’t be too rare elsewhere.
‘Course there’s a good volume of craft beer here, too.
So great to see Brad and Jonny from CBC. Two of my fave blokes!!!
The only thing missing is gelatin to reduce cloudiness
Dude, can you read my mind? I'be been wanting to make my own beer for the last week now!😍
I'm actually brewing a Hefeweizen next week.
@@Aeguis I'm still looking for supplies, I'll probably make something VERY easy.. At least there's enough recipies...
Generic question: Do you guys own a beard and a flanel
try wilcos, they do brewing kits
Oh man, so close. If only you were planning to make beer using nothing but stuff you can buy in Sainsbury's.
Super cool. This is like a mega fancy (beer) version of slapping champagne yeast into a big jug of apple cider and letting it sit for a moth.
#diyMATT what’s the moth going to do with it?
I was just trying to hey the energy to start brewing today, then this video popped up!
That’s fantastic you guys just made Gruit beer 👍🏻love it nice video
Makes me proud to see Castle lager represent
OK I'm so excited about this new project
Some bloody proper banter in this video.
Alex, I _really,_ _r e a l l y_ appreciate the progress bar for the ad read.
Not quite as much as I app-reci-ate the unique cadence you francophones have when pronouncing certain words - but still, _a lot._
Thankyou.
I cannot cook, so I usually just watch your videos for you, but this, this i can relate to :) awesome project
Craft brewer here. So the main thing that caused the infection was adding unsanitary liquid to the wort after your boil to bring down the temperature. That water though it came from a bottle was not sterile in the brewers sense.
Use isopropyl alchahol and use it everywhere. Pasturize your utensils hold at 180F for about at least 5 minutes.
Also blooming the yeast isnt necessary just toss it in. Its sanitary. You have to keep it 100% sterile until the yeast can take hold.
As a brewer. Yes you get a nice gentle kick to the nutz even on a big system haha.
Been brewing since I was 18. This is exciting :)
Great series idea
I am liking this! I have done similar things. Of course this is already done and we are being treated to the edited video, but two things I would suggest is to add raisins to the mix if you cannot find malt. Fresh bread will supply the yeast. There are live yeasts in some beers that you could cultivate as well. The airlock could be replaced with a plastic tube from a slingshot or replaced altogether by a heavy tapered stopper that settles back into place after the CO2 escapes. My mother used really large ballons snapped over the mouth of the jug.
"Doability" aka feasibility 😆Looking forward to the brewing process though.
02:04
He hums “Little Green Bag” by the Dutch 60’s band “George Baker Selection”
Little green bags of hop?
Let’s go to the Hop!
Next video, Alex makes diy cocaine with supermarket ingredients in Columbia.
J'ai toujours admiré cette décontraction dans l'accentuation française forcée de la langue anglaise.
Sly pichon il fait pas trop d’effort sur son accent. Parceque sinon il s’exprime très bien.
2:05 That's incredible! I was singing that song at that precise moment!
Great idea for a challenge! I like the use of lemongrass instead of hops. You could have also used sage or rosemary, both very prevalent in brewing before hops became widespread. I am a little disappointed you did not try to cultivate your own wild yeast. My guess is that would have been too time consuming since you were in England. Maybe something to attempt in a future video! Great work as always and can't wait to see how your brew turns out!
This looks like fun!
I don't know where you get the alcohol Torrance from bakers yeast. It is commonly used for sugar washes to distill, I often get 14% abv,
chub eye Torrance? Bakers yeast comes from breweries.
They clearly don’t know anything anything about alcohol tolerance of bakers yeast. I had same results (15 ABV) with bread yeast. It become also quite clear and dry.
I'm so keen to see how this pans out I really want to make my own beer to save money and hopefully to use healthier ingredients.
Steve Cunliffe Healthier?
What a fantastic series! I can't wait to see how it turns out. How much did you spend at the supermarket?
I would love the recipe for this!!!
Gotta love how this french man in england is trying to find a way that ANYONE can make beer from the grocery store, only to get a bunch or americans saying "just buy unpasteurised beer from the grocery store as your yeast source", not realising that they are one of the few countries that sell their alcohol next to their baby formula XD... also with the airlock you just need a few bendy straws, join them together to make a long one, stick one end through a hole in the lid and the other end in a glass or water (or vodka)
cant wait for episode 2
I CAN'T WAIT!!!
Also London water is actually good for brewing once you correct for oh, according to that book I mentions on water.
The cheap way to make a airlock is a balloon with a pin hole in it placed on thw bottles nossle. Be careful for the fermentation to expand during process. Leave some space in the bottle or put it in a container to catch it.
spiritualinsight Correct for oh? London water is very hard. Best to experiment with soft brewing liquor.
instead of a complicated yeast-lock with cups and straws, just use a rubber balloon with a tiny hole covering the bottle neck :)
Thank you for making such cool, creative and inspiring videos! One af my alltime favorite youtube-channels :)
Great video!
What if your local supermarket sells home brew kits?
Gotem
Awesome, I can't believe you guys made a collab together!
This is great!
That was a really good episode! =)
Watching him trying to explain how to build an air lock, and the scrappy homebrewers are all thinking.... "a balloon or condom with a pinhole in it would work fine."
This is so crazy. I love it 😉😀😀😄😃
Were you just humming, "Little Green Bag?"
"Do you thing it can work?"
10:38 When your face says "yes" but your brain is shouting: "Absolutely fucking not".
The bubbler part is awesome
Solving the yeast problem: Buy a beer and culture the remaining yeast in the bottle to get the quantity needed for your beer. Simple ... and they do sell beer in the supermarket.
That black building (The Stag) is the coolest building ever!
Theochineh Sweet!!
I have the same kaweco sport, but in dark green:)
Writes lovely!!!!!
10:38 that's the face you make when you have no idea what was just said but you don't want to hear the explanation again.
You're in London!!! Wow, good luck with the brewing, looking forward to the results and hope I bump into you ^_^
I'll definitely be trying it if you guys succeed
Barley and the hops TV made the same project, and used sprouts to convert the starches.
Starches.
@@BeeRich33 my mistake
It’s BEER lol what could possibly go wrong lol Jonny’s deer in the headlights look when Alex explains the fermenting bung.
If your cup-based airlock contraption doesn't work, you can simplify by using a balloon. Just stretch the the mouth of the balloon over the top of the jug and put a little pin hole in the top of the balloon. As the wort ferments, the gas will inflate the balloon a bit, but can escape... and the balloon will flop back down and prevent air from getting in. (And if the balloon isn't big enough to stretch over the top of the jug, then there are other, similar latex-based product that will work, and that are often sold at supermarkets. Just be sure to wash off any lube before using one...)
Alex, I recommend looking into the recipes for a BRUT IPA, it's an IPA with 0 IBUS, so it's not bitter, as it's brewed with a dry hop process.
It's an amazing drink!
Our grocery stores often have homebrew kits! Not as fun though
Fuck yeah I was craving for another episode based series like this!!! I just hope we don't have to wait too much to see the next episodes. :)
Also insider tip - if you wanted Fresh Yeast - if you go to a larger store that makes its bread from scratch if you ask nicely at the counter they can provide you with a small amount of their yeast for free ;)
Dunno if it does any thing different or better/worse in this scenario compared to dried but its something
You can make up to 14-15 percent alcohol with normal bakers yeast, I have made very good and dry “wines” with that. 3 percent is just plain wrong. Even without adding anything the wild yeast on air or a grapes skin can make decent alcoholic wines
Similar result here with plain breadyeast, I had enough initial gravity to reach 13-14° abv and my mead went completely dry.
I currently have my first 2 batches going with champaigne yeast and enough initial gravity to push the ABV well into desert wine category :)
nargileh1 I think bread yeast can tolerate up to 15 percent meanwhile champagne yeast can easily make 18. There are also varieties claimed to reach 21ABV in 1 week but I’m not quite sure if it works or not. Bread yeast might make the drink taste a lil different, though I’m not good at wine tasting
The head nod killed me. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The simplest way to make an air lock is to submerge a flexible plastic tube into a large container of water. Also you could have used Malt-O-Meal as a source of malted barley. I'm not sure if they have that in the UK but it's in every store in the US.
Me:walks out my usual supermarket with a box of wheat cereal
Cashier: what you got there?
Me:I’m just brewing some beer
Cashier:stares at me judgingly*
Love your videos and the unbridled insanity they bring to the kitchen! What fountain pen is that?
Fermenting valves suck.
I once made an impromptu replacement with stretch foil and rubber bands and then I never went back.
As long as the vessel has a lip for the rubber bands to hold onto and they are put on tight, they keep the fruitflies out and the oxygen as well, since there's a slight overpressure from the fermentation. Plus, there is no sealing liquid that can dry out or contaminate your ferment :)
Wow the stag is my local! Can’t believe I missed you
The yeast that is used for bread is only slightly different from the one for beer. Its actually Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The name cerevisiae comes from "beer". And one more thing. The malt is used for flavour and for the enzymes. But as you may know is that the yeast can produce its own encymes if you let it ferment long enough.
Also you could may get some whole grains from the store and make your own malt. It's really easy to do. You have to water the grains and let them sprout for some days and then you can stop the sprouting by drying them in an ofen. For more Flavour you can even roast some of the malt.
cant wait to see if it works alex!