I started brewing in 1997. I now brew 10 gallon all-grain batches once a month. I know more than a little about this hobby. This video is one of the most concise and complete "intro" vids I've ever seen. The host covers all of the pertinent information without getting too "deep into the weeds". He also keeps it interesting while going through the steps. Anyone who watches this and follows the simple steps laid out can brew great beer. It cannot be stressed enough how important the sanitation step is but almost anything else is open to your own interpretation. Well done Mr. Frey. Cheers!
I'm a complete newbie when it comes to brewing (I'm still getting all my pieces together to start), can I ask why he added malt extract on top of malted barley already? Another video I watched didn't add extract and just used the barley, and turned out looking good (although I see that this was an amber ale, and much, much darker than the other video, whereas the other was an IPA), do you have to add the extract or can you omit it?
I would recommend letting people know that if the liquid extract is *that* syrupy, it can be dunked in a sink of warm water to make it a little less viscous.
This is my very first video to watch on UA-cam on how to brew a beer. This video made me a better home Brewer. Now, twenty six batches later I keep coming back here and give this video a thumbs up every time it pops up.
I'm 24 enjoy drinking beer, that is why I want to start my brewery. I do have a small drinking problem but I think that will be a positive thing, since I will be doing what I enjoy.
I followed the instructions on this video and the batch came out perfect. For being the first time I was impressed. It smelled like beer, looked like beer and tasted like a good bottle of beer, thanks to this video.
Thank you! I always struggled with sanitation to the point if being obsessed. You shed light on a few things I never realized such as the oxygen cleaner being food safe and OK to allow foaming. This video makes me less anxious to attempt my next batch!
You have the gift of being well spoken and teaching with such a clarity that everything gets covered as it should. Thank you for taking the time and teaching this craft!
This tutorial was extremely helpful. I have not yet bought brewing equipment, but after how simply you put this video I am going to go purchase some equipment, and a box kit now knowing that brewing it won't be like physics class all over again. Thank you.
I think kits are a good way to get introduced to home brewing, but shouldn't end there! So many flavor combinations to work with in the future…I hope you give it a go and have great success!
This is the one best brewing videos on UA-cam. If not THE BEST. I’m not kidding! I watched this about 4/5 years ago when I first started making beer and because of this one video I make the best stuff now. Thank you.
thanx for a very clear explanation regarding the process of making your own beer!! sadly i dont think i´ll ever have the chance of making my own due to several reasons, 1. I live in a small flat(appartment) so not much room. 2. recent blood test found excessive amounts of uric acid in my blood. So thats that.
I WATCHED YOUR VIDEO LIKE SOMETIME AGO SINCE I ONLY STARTED TO HAVE THE IDEA OF DOING IT AND YOUR VIDEO WAS THE FIRST ONE. I FINISHED IT WITH KNOWING VERY LITTLE WHAT WAS HAPPENING THOUGH. SEVERAL WEEKS AGO I FINALLY MADE MY FIRST BATCH AND DECIDED TO COME N WATCH THIS AGAIN. IT ALL MAKE SENSE NOW. WOW, THANKS MAN.
@@reece9052 Yep, i bought enough for 2 weeks not knowing they would extend it, 2 weeks left, no beer but got a few bottles of Jamesons, that's also good to kill a thirst!
About a decade ago, I got a MrBeer kit for xmas. Made about 3 batches, then stopped. It was a lot of time/effort for 2 beers that may, or may not be, good (One gallon batches & not drinking alone.) After a few years of making wine in larger quantities, just bought a 7 gallon fermenting pot for beer. Making 5 gallons at a time will (probably) be more worth it. Thinking about using keg rather than bottling. I'll surely watch this video a few more times as reminder. Really good step-by step.
You can rack your beer as many or as few times as you want; it's simply a method of filtering out unwanted solids. I rack twice, between primary and secondary fermentation, and then from carboy to bottling vat. The important thing is not to disturb the beer too much (use a racking hose or a siphon), and to restrict its contact with the outside air.
Obviously the guy making the video doesn't even consider your average tinned brew kit to be home brew! I usually use Coopers brew kits and they only require one container and a kettle. No boiling, no siphoning, no 'bottling bucket'. I don't really see what he is trying to achieve by siphoning into a bottling bucket, you could do exactly the same job by stirring in your priming sugar to the brew, or just pop a carbonation drop in every bottle as you said.
Affordable Colorado Weddings actually propane burns very cleanly leaving behind carbon dioxide and water vapor. so unless you were in a very small area there should be no worries. natural gas on the other hand is more dangerous one by product of natural gas is carbon monoxide which will kill you.
So, I've watched a few videos on home brews and this video seriously helped put all the pieces together! appreciate the simplicity here in this video! Brew more please (Organic IPA Homebrew videos)!
I made my first batch today and this video was incredibly helpful in validating the steps. Very well done and it will help me greatly in my bottling process as well.
This video got me into home brewing though I opted to make my own mash tun/HLT and go straight to all grain brewing.I also decided to keg right off the bat as well.Along the way I got rid of the glass carboys and ferment in corny kegs.Most recently I splurged and bought a Grainfather all in 1 brewing system.It is a very enjoyable hobby and I am glad I took it up.
Daniel Murray true, its not that tricky. I just use google converter for most brewing problems. It would be nice to see more metric vids. My old mate Gash Slugg makes some very good brewing vids in metric
I'm starting brewing in a few days and I'm watching a lot of tutorial videos on how to do it for beginners. Yours is by far the best and the simplest. Thanks a lot. I can't wait to start!
@@WalkerProducts He's most likely using starsan. It has no taste and is completely fine for the brew. Doesn't change the flavour profile at all. If you wash off your sanitizer with tap water you've potentially just added bacteria back into the carboy making sanitation pointless. Not everybody has access to filtered tapwater, most places in the states have substandard tap water ill suited for brewing.
U eat it everyday and don't know... I worked in a meat department at one point the last step after cleaning everything and spraying it down is spray a layer of sanitizer over everything. It's harmless.
I have a very hard time believing that the sanitizer solution doesn't augment your beer's flavor in any way. I wouldn't recommend soaking everything in it every chance you get seeing as how for something to be a sanitizer you need an enzyme to break down bacteria to some degree and since yeast is a bacteria.. it could throw off or augment the beer's abv, flavor and so much else. Great starter video though.
"Yeast is a bacteria"?! lol. Actually, the reason yeast (which is a fungus) creates alcohol in nature is to fight off its competition, which is.... you guessed it: bacteria!
As Morten said - yeast are fungi. Also, "for something to be a sanitizer you need an enzyme to break down bacteria".... mate... I dont think you know what an enzyme is OR how to kill bacteria. There are very few enzymatic antibacterials on the market that are cheap enough to use for something like this. Heat, pressure, detergents, acids, bases - even high enough salt concentration can all kill bacteria and are far far cheaper and more stable than enzymes.
I would take out the hop bags from the wort immediately after the end of boil. Reduces the risk of pulling them out with your hands and accidentally dropping one causing a reboil to sanitize again. I also like to pour the boiling wort over the chiller that is not submerged so I'm not relying on the steam to do it. Just a couple of different techniques. Great instructional vid!
I've been wanting to try homebrewing but was trepidatious as I thought it was such a complicated process so I'm so glad I watched this. You explained it all so well and this was really helpful; thanks so much! 🤗
Can you imagine if we old timers had this youtube video when we were kids? Who needs a fake ID Johnny's brewing a keg in his closet? We'd be on our third liver by now. Kids today have it made. Of course most of them have little to no resolve to see something like this through. Let alone the meticulous prepping it takes not to infect your beer. I guess it's a double edge sword, here's how you do it, but you're too lazy to do it. Kind of a cruel joke.
My dad used to make it in a 20 gallon crock out in the garage. After it was bottled and stored in the garage, my Brother and I would sneak in there and try it out. Some of the bottles would blow up in the cupboards they were stored in.........good times. :-)
30 years ago... When I was 14 I worked at HyVee food stores in the produce department. A coworker and myself had access to a private storage area above our produce prep room that no one ever visited. We went to the grocery aisle and got 4 gallon jugs of unsweetened apple cider. We purchased a 5 pound bag of sugar and a packet of yeast. Mixed it all up in a bucket in that storage room. When it had fermented out we strained it and racked it back into the cider jugs and took them up to the check out and purchased them as cider just in time for a big Halloween party!
Hops and yeast going everywhere, not rinsing out the malt extract properly and leaving a fair amount behind I know its only an instructional video but geeeez this guy is wasteful
One uses an ale yeast, which needs to be kept at 68 degrees (or around there), while a pilsner would use a lager yeast, which requires that the yeast be kept much cooler and must be 'lagered' in which it spends time in a very cold atmosphere. Altogether, a pilsener requires that the brewer have a lot of control over temperature.
Its considered a secondary fermentation. There will be a WHOLE bunch of yeast at the bottom of the initial carboy. You siphon just above the yeast settlement into your secondary fermentation carboy, put your fermentation lock back on for a couple more days. Then you siphon just above that yeast sediment build up into your bottles. Your beer will be much more clear if you do the secondary.
Thank you. This is EXACTLY the concise summary of the simplest beer brewing process that I was looking for! To confirm my understanding: 1. When brewing from malt extract, you actually don't really need any special equipment like those all-in-one breweries, right? That is needed only when creating my own malt from scratch, correct? 2. When brewing from malt extract, are the "specialty grains" always used? Or is that just a way to add more twist to otherwise "generic" malt? 3. In relation to the previous question, when using malt extract, the main way to affect my beer taste is which hops I use, maybe which malt extract I combine and maybe adding the "specialty grains"? Does the yeast type or process make a difference too (other then top fermenting vs bottom fermenting)? Thank you all for helping me out in my humble beginnings! Greetings from the Czech Republic, one of the beer motherlands :-)
I started brewing in 1997. I now brew 10 gallon all-grain batches once a month. I know more than a little about this hobby. This video is one of the most concise and complete "intro" vids I've ever seen. The host covers all of the pertinent information without getting too "deep into the weeds". He also keeps it interesting while going through the steps. Anyone who watches this and follows the simple steps laid out can brew great beer. It cannot be stressed enough how important the sanitation step is but almost anything else is open to your own interpretation. Well done Mr. Frey. Cheers!
I'm a complete newbie when it comes to brewing (I'm still getting all my pieces together to start), can I ask why he added malt extract on top of malted barley already? Another video I watched didn't add extract and just used the barley, and turned out looking good (although I see that this was an amber ale, and much, much darker than the other video, whereas the other was an IPA), do you have to add the extract or can you omit it?
iDiscord ! He added the extract malt because he was making a brown ale so it requires the extra malt. The initial malt grains and the extract.
@@dutchstacy8622 Discord! I am only interested in dark beers...
Wow
@@dutchstacy8622 hi, is that the type of Dubbel ?
No annoying music, no adds, step by step clear instructions... Perfect!
I watched this video like my grandma watches cooking shows on saturday afternoon. Absolutely awesome.
I would recommend letting people know that if the liquid extract is *that* syrupy, it can be dunked in a sink of warm water to make it a little less viscous.
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This is my very first video to watch on UA-cam on how to brew a beer. This video made me a better home Brewer. Now, twenty six batches later I keep coming back here and give this video a thumbs up every time it pops up.
"The grains have many compost or baking uses." *sound of grains hitting the trashcan floor* ;D @2:50
Tyler Chambers lol I laughed at that part too
😂 😂 😂
That's a hilarious visualization
Ahahaha my thoughts exactly
I went back and checked you are right that is funny,lol
This was incredibly helpful. You've turned what seems like a confusing process for newbies and made it incredibly simple. Thank you!
thanks! If there's an opportunity to see how something done - especially if you're new to it - I think it's always helpful. Happy beer brewing!
You made the perfect video for the new-brewer, and I appreciated your easy step-by-step instructions. Great job!!
I figure at age 51 and being an alcoholic, it's time to brew my own Beer.
I figured this at 33 so I guess I'm a little ahead of the game.
If you are an alcoholic that sounds like a pretty stupid idea, don't know you, but wouldnt it just make it even harder to stay sober?
You must have a high regard for beer since you capitalized it. 🍺
I do the same, Im 31 ":D
I'm 24 enjoy drinking beer, that is why I want to start my brewery. I do have a small drinking problem but I think that will be a positive thing, since I will be doing what I enjoy.
So far I can successfully process a wide variety of beer into a fine urine with a bold aroma, color, and clarity.
Thank goodness for that update. That’s exactly the outcome I was striving to receive!!!😉
Good video. You should warm the barley syrup by placing it in hot water before you pour it. It comes out much easier then.
He's the most polite and accurate explainer ever
I'm just looking to start up as a hobby and found this to be extremely helpful. Expertly demonstrated and informative. Great job. Thanks dude.
I followed the instructions on this video and the batch came out perfect. For being the first time I was impressed. It smelled like beer, looked like beer and tasted like a good bottle of beer, thanks to this video.
Thank you! I always struggled with sanitation to the point if being obsessed. You shed light on a few things I never realized such as the oxygen cleaner being food safe and OK to allow foaming. This video makes me less anxious to attempt my next batch!
You have the gift of being well spoken and teaching with such a clarity that everything gets covered as it should. Thank you for taking the time and teaching this craft!
This tutorial was extremely helpful. I have not yet bought brewing equipment, but after how simply you put this video I am going to go purchase some equipment, and a box kit now knowing that brewing it won't be like physics class all over again. Thank you.
This is one of the most clear, informative, and educational brewing videos I've watched so far. I don't normally comment on things, but I thank you.
I think kits are a good way to get introduced to home brewing, but shouldn't end there! So many flavor combinations to work with in the future…I hope you give it a go and have great success!
Home brewing can be so meditative. Thanks for the clear and concise video.
For someone looking start brewing this has been the best video I've watched.
Great video. Really informative & easy to follow. Thank you so much!
You're welcome! Thanks for your nice comment.
Is that alcoholic beer??? M from india..
This is the one best brewing videos on UA-cam. If not THE BEST. I’m not kidding! I watched this about 4/5 years ago when I first started making beer and because of this one video I make the best stuff now. Thank you.
Who is watching it during Corona times? Lol!!!
Mei
I started with learning to make and distill my own alcohol. Then figured "hey, I can make beer with this stuff too, even better"
Me going into beer making.......
thanx for a very clear explanation regarding the process of making your own beer!! sadly i dont think i´ll ever have the chance of making my own due to several reasons, 1. I live in a small flat(appartment) so not much room. 2. recent blood test found excessive amounts of uric acid in my blood. So thats that.
thanks shia labeouf now i know how to make beer
Long JUST DO IT!!!!
Long . He may be a douche , but goddamn he is helpful
Looks nothing like Shia
😂😂
Lmao!! He will not divide us!!
Outstanding video to walk a beginner through the entire process from start to finish.
Excellent presentation!! One of the best I've seen in a long time. Thanks so much for sharing your skills.
Quick, short and not a long story. Well explained, thank you
Very nice video, thank you!
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This video is very clear. I made a beer using this video a few months ago and am using it again to remind me how to do it.
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loved this! just bought the kit! can't wait to start brewing!
I WATCHED YOUR VIDEO LIKE SOMETIME AGO SINCE I ONLY STARTED TO HAVE THE IDEA OF DOING IT AND YOUR VIDEO WAS THE FIRST ONE. I FINISHED IT WITH KNOWING VERY LITTLE WHAT WAS HAPPENING THOUGH. SEVERAL WEEKS AGO I FINALLY MADE MY FIRST BATCH AND DECIDED TO COME N WATCH THIS AGAIN. IT ALL MAKE SENSE NOW. WOW, THANKS MAN.
"let us give praise to our Maker, and glory in his bounty, by learning about... beer."
FRIAR! I'm sure you shall find it much more difficult to sing with a sword in your gullet.
This guy is ruthless with pouring and opening things up!
If your reading this:
Knock a cold one back for me. 🍺
Cheers 🍺
If you're reading this , South Africa is under lockdown, and Alcohol is banned. You knock one back for us!
@@kungfukenny4439 dude that sucks, bottle shops are essential in Australia
@@reece9052 Yep, i bought enough for 2 weeks not knowing they would extend it, 2 weeks left, no beer but got a few bottles of Jamesons, that's also good to kill a thirst!
Slainte! 🍺
Omg , watching you pour the maize extract (that syrupy stuff) was the most satisfying thing I've seen in a long time !
This was a really informative, clean and easy to understand tutorial vid. Thanks!
Excellent job of relating the process in a clear and concise way. I am more confident that I will do okay my first round!
This was absolutely great!!!
thanks lec9077!
About a decade ago, I got a MrBeer kit for xmas. Made about 3 batches, then stopped. It was a lot of time/effort for 2 beers that may, or may not be, good (One gallon batches & not drinking alone.) After a few years of making wine in larger quantities, just bought a 7 gallon fermenting pot for beer. Making 5 gallons at a time will (probably) be more worth it. Thinking about using keg rather than bottling. I'll surely watch this video a few more times as reminder. Really good step-by step.
ill sub you were very informative... I am a new brewer and you just made me but a start up kit... I am a I.P.A. guy so I cant wait to make my own
I've been wanting to get a job at a brewery for some time now, but had no clue as to how to brew beer. This was so informative, thank you so much.
This was an awesome intro vid. After 15 min I feel like I could easily start brewing my own beer.
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This is one of the best beginner home brewing videos we've seen...thanks Jeremy and cheers!
This was a Very well made video. I am impressed. Thanks.
Being a brewer for almost ten years this is a great video.
Great video. I make wines. I thought beer would be harder but it seems to easier as there is no constant racking. i will try it.
You can rack your beer as many or as few times as you want; it's simply a method of filtering out unwanted solids. I rack twice, between primary and secondary fermentation, and then from carboy to bottling vat. The important thing is not to disturb the beer too much (use a racking hose or a siphon), and to restrict its contact with the outside air.
Great video that makes a novice more comfortable with the process.
Now I can always crack a cold one....with the lads
Outstanding! I'll be starting my first attempt at beer this weekend. This is one the best tutorials (of many) that I've watched in the last week.
When you poor cold water in, is that cold water sanitized somehow? Do we need to boil it before it's cold? Thanks
Thanks for a great video. This is my first try at beer and you have been very helpful. One week to bottling!
im gona make now!
I watched many vids, but this one actually made me understand the process
You learn something new every day. As dumb as this sounds, I never thought to put my chiller in the wort while it was boiling.
Thank you! My husband and I are just starting the brewing journey together as a new hobby. Great, easy to follow video.
Obviously the guy making the video doesn't even consider your average tinned brew kit to be home brew!
I usually use Coopers brew kits and they only require one container and a kettle. No boiling, no siphoning, no 'bottling bucket'. I don't really see what he is trying to achieve by siphoning into a bottling bucket, you could do exactly the same job by stirring in your priming sugar to the brew, or just pop a carbonation drop in every bottle as you said.
Very helpful. I usually brew mead, but I'm thinking about trying beer. This is a great tutorial for someone new to brewing beer.
That an overwhelming amount of sanitizer in your beer bro lmao.
Lol stopped watching after that lol
great video..l....Jeremy Frey is the best....thanks man...
At what point in this process could you add a satchel of spices (coriander, peppercorn etc.) into the beer?
last 15 mins of the boil before cooling
Great idea to put the specialty grains into the steeping bag for packaging.
150F to 170F is 65C to 77C
As opposed to exploding water
Thank you so much. I'm from Australia and am a huge Amber Ale fan, using this method I've produced a beer that I'm massively proud of.
Hey Jack, I'm from the land of Oz too and got a kit for Christmas, can you tell me where you brought your ingredients from? Cheers.
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Boys and girls. Make sure you have proper ventilation when using that propane burner.
Affordable Colorado Weddings actually propane burns very cleanly leaving behind carbon dioxide and water vapor. so unless you were in a very small area there should be no worries. natural gas on the other hand is more dangerous one by product of natural gas is carbon monoxide which will kill you.
Affordable Colorado Weddings drama queen,I have a gas range in my house what you on about
Great vid, very precise and informative without going too in depth.
Can i substitute honey instead of the corn sugar?
the yeast needs sugar.. so most likely yes
Mead is a honey based liqueur. Like Russian vodka, you don't mash honey, it mashes you.
So, I've watched a few videos on home brews and this video seriously helped put all the pieces together! appreciate the simplicity here in this video! Brew more please (Organic IPA Homebrew videos)!
Dad, I know you’re reading this. Remember when you tried making wine for Joanna’s wedding? Don’t even try!
Great video. I like finding these kind of videos so that I can direct new brewers in our club who want to start with extract beers.
Ah, extract brewing... the ultimate cheat in the world of alcohol...
I made my first batch today and this video was incredibly helpful in validating the steps. Very well done and it will help me greatly in my bottling process as well.
Thanks!
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Minnie Marcum lmao
This was probably the most down to earth, tutorial on making beer. I felt like I was there, good video
why was this recommended for me, I'm under the drinking age and google knows that.
This video got me into home brewing though I opted to make my own mash tun/HLT and go straight to all grain brewing.I also decided to keg right off the bat as well.Along the way I got rid of the glass carboys and ferment in corny kegs.Most recently I splurged and bought a Grainfather all in 1 brewing system.It is a very enjoyable hobby and I am glad I took it up.
Imperial system of units is TOO complicated. Next time, can you do all that stuff again, but now using the metric system. Thank buddy.
+Bender Rodriguez I have the same problem. Not enough metric system videos. Might be a niche market for a UA-cam channel, me thinks. metric brewing
+Bender Rodriguez they use imperial system in the states... it's not that tricky, well, in Ireland, we sort of use both.
Daniel Murray true, its not that tricky. I just use google converter for most brewing problems. It would be nice to see more metric vids. My old mate Gash Slugg makes some very good brewing vids in metric
+Bender Rodriguez Just look up the conversions. Americans live their whole lives doing the conversions. It isn't hard.
Even if I find the conversion, it is not accurate enough.
I'm starting brewing in a few days and I'm watching a lot of tutorial videos on how to do it for beginners. Yours is by far the best and the simplest. Thanks a lot. I can't wait to start!
yum tastes like sanitizer
seriously who doesn't wash off the sanitizer?
@@WalkerProducts He's most likely using starsan. It has no taste and is completely fine for the brew. Doesn't change the flavour profile at all. If you wash off your sanitizer with tap water you've potentially just added bacteria back into the carboy making sanitation pointless. Not everybody has access to filtered tapwater, most places in the states have substandard tap water ill suited for brewing.
U eat it everyday and don't know... I worked in a meat department at one point the last step after cleaning everything and spraying it down is spray a layer of sanitizer over everything. It's harmless.
thanks for the education. i have always wanted to delve into this craft. you made it look easy.
I have a very hard time believing that the sanitizer solution doesn't augment your beer's flavor in any way. I wouldn't recommend soaking everything in it every chance you get seeing as how for something to be a sanitizer you need an enzyme to break down bacteria to some degree and since yeast is a bacteria.. it could throw off or augment the beer's abv, flavor and so much else. Great starter video though.
"Yeast is a bacteria"?! lol. Actually, the reason yeast (which is a fungus) creates alcohol in nature is to fight off its competition, which is.... you guessed it: bacteria!
As Morten said - yeast are fungi. Also, "for something to be a sanitizer you need an enzyme to break down bacteria".... mate... I dont think you know what an enzyme is OR how to kill bacteria. There are very few enzymatic antibacterials on the market that are cheap enough to use for something like this. Heat, pressure, detergents, acids, bases - even high enough salt concentration can all kill bacteria and are far far cheaper and more stable than enzymes.
I would take out the hop bags from the wort immediately after the end of boil. Reduces the risk of pulling them out with your hands and accidentally dropping one causing a reboil to sanitize again. I also like to pour the boiling wort over the chiller that is not submerged so I'm not relying on the steam to do it. Just a couple of different techniques. Great instructional vid!
So where is the alcohol?
The alcohol comes from the yeast eating the sugars
Interesting.... Thanks bro.
Jay Cee
come on dude you gotta be kiddin me hahaha, line of the day.. ahhahaha wheres the alcohol... my man
I was serious, but I also new that I was going to sound very stupid... Lol
SERIAL =PPP
I've been wanting to try homebrewing but was trepidatious as I thought it was such a complicated process so I'm so glad I watched this. You explained it all so well and this was really helpful; thanks so much! 🤗
12 minutes 0f credibility taken away by that lousy pour at the end
+Noah Roberts english spouts call for a different pour
n00b
Perfect love the step by steps really glad you made this video
Can you imagine if we old timers had this youtube video when we were kids? Who needs a fake ID Johnny's brewing a keg in his closet? We'd be on our third liver by now. Kids today have it made. Of course most of them have little to no resolve to see something like this through. Let alone the meticulous prepping it takes not to infect your beer. I guess it's a double edge sword, here's how you do it, but you're too lazy to do it. Kind of a cruel joke.
Mead can be made in gallon jugs of drinking water so it's pretty easy to closet-brew.
Store bought grape juice, sugar, and bakers yeast works too
My dad used to make it in a 20 gallon crock out in the garage. After it was bottled and stored in the garage, my Brother and I would sneak in there and try it out. Some of the bottles would blow up in the cupboards they were stored in.........good times. :-)
My friend started when he was 15 so I guess we’re not all lazy.
30 years ago... When I was 14 I worked at HyVee food stores in the produce department. A coworker and myself had access to a private storage area above our produce prep room that no one ever visited. We went to the grocery aisle and got 4 gallon jugs of unsweetened apple cider. We purchased a 5 pound bag of sugar and a packet of yeast. Mixed it all up in a bucket in that storage room. When it had fermented out we strained it and racked it back into the cider jugs and took them up to the check out and purchased them as cider just in time for a big Halloween party!
Great video I'm starting my first home brew today and this helped a lot
Hops and yeast going everywhere, not rinsing out the malt extract properly and leaving a fair amount behind I know its only an instructional video but geeeez this guy is wasteful
pronto355 just what I was thinking haha
Watched it because it was satisfying to watch
fantastic video for me just wanting to start homebrewing
Excellent video. I referred to it before, during, and after my first homebrewing session.
so glad it helped!!
One uses an ale yeast, which needs to be kept at 68 degrees (or around there), while a pilsner would use a lager yeast, which requires that the yeast be kept much cooler and must be 'lagered' in which it spends time in a very cold atmosphere. Altogether, a pilsener requires that the brewer have a lot of control over temperature.
Its considered a secondary fermentation. There will be a WHOLE bunch of yeast at the bottom of the initial carboy. You siphon just above the yeast settlement into your secondary fermentation carboy, put your fermentation lock back on for a couple more days. Then you siphon just above that yeast sediment build up into your bottles. Your beer will be much more clear if you do the secondary.
lucky people who lives outside my country. You guys have these things widely available for you! I'm so jealous! lol
Thank you. This is EXACTLY the concise summary of the simplest beer brewing process that I was looking for!
To confirm my understanding:
1. When brewing from malt extract, you actually don't really need any special equipment like those all-in-one breweries, right? That is needed only when creating my own malt from scratch, correct?
2. When brewing from malt extract, are the "specialty grains" always used? Or is that just a way to add more twist to otherwise "generic" malt?
3. In relation to the previous question, when using malt extract, the main way to affect my beer taste is which hops I use, maybe which malt extract I combine and maybe adding the "specialty grains"? Does the yeast type or process make a difference too (other then top fermenting vs bottom fermenting)?
Thank you all for helping me out in my humble beginnings! Greetings from the Czech Republic, one of the beer motherlands :-)
Very good video. Very nice way of explaining. Awesome.
Simple and very well explained.Thank you so much
Great video! Wish I would have seen it before I started brewing, I'll definitely recommend it to friends interested in brewing.