As an age old home brewer regarding the sediment in the bottle of the bottle. If you put a couple of bottles in the fridge foer 2 or 3 hours, when you come to pour, the sediment will have hardened and will ssay put at the bottom of the bottle.
I have noticed this too. I like to give my beers at least an overnight chilling. The better I do making a clear brew being bottled, the thinner the sediment is, hard to even see. I rack though.
i made one of these kits but mixed up kilos and pounds so i put 2 kilos instead of 2 pounds, took nearly 3 weeks to stop fermenting but wow what a pint it tasted great and had a real kick these kits are really forgiving.
@nate_river_ not a clue it was a Scottish style Heavy and should have been just 3.7abv but was way strongeri would guess around 6% but thats just a guess, really nice tasting pint though and as shown on video so easy to do. If you get a kit you like you can play around with it a bit, too bitter you can reduce the hops but the kits are so reasonably priced if you dont like it pour it away and try another.
A little tip, squeeze the air out after filling up the bottle, this reduces the chance of oxidation. It will expand again after a couple of days as co2 is produced.
And Me, always had a batch on the go, 40 pints of Boots Continental Lager, ( made with liquid yeast), unfortunately had to stop as I had constant callers 7 days a week, after free booze.
Good result Fred! Watching that brought back some good memories of when we were skint before my daughter was born many years ago. We’d sit drinking homebrew listening to music at weekends. Simpler times. I used to use finings from a sachet to clear the beer more, not sure if they actually did much but those were the pre internet days when you got information from books 😂 73’s Franco
On recommendation I purchased a Boots lager kit. After a few weeks I tried it and it was awful. If I remember correctly, I popped some sugar in left it for quite a while. Anyway, grabbed a couple of bottles one night, flipped the top off, and it nearly smashed the neck of the bottle! My wife and I drank them and when we came to stand up to go to bed, we could hardly walk and laughed all the way up the stairs, as we tried to get to the top. We often laugh about it - but boy was it strong!😂
Love videos like this, shows that "consensus" isn't always the be-all. Most would say adding hops post fermentation and by lifting the lid exposes beer to oxygen potentially causing it to go bad more quickly. That letting beer freefall into the bottles from the tap will seriously airate the beer, further adding oxygen + making beer go bad. Using clear bottles increases chances of "light struck" / "skunked" beer. Yet the proof is in the pudding; beer looked very good and obviously tasted good, and was great value. Winner! Only thing being, adding 10% extra water will reduce the ABV, strength of flavors etc But whether that helped / hindered is subjective. After all, got more beer out of it in the end. Could even experiment with different hops etc if wanting to tweak it. Perhaps get a bottle wand, very cheap. Takes longer to fill bottles, but drastically reduces airation (probably). Many say adding VitaminC to the beer at yeast pitch time helps avoid oxidation of beer. Circa 0.3g per Litre. Again, cheap to get hold of in powder form. Other than that, why change too much a process that you know works. Mega video, great result! Definitely giving this a try!
Back in the day I brewed some stout. It was disgusting. Put it aside and a year later pulled it out because needed the bottles. Tried one and it was delicious.
did the same (many years ago as a student) my home brew was never that good, then one day rooting through the empty bottles i found an unopened, un drunk bottle , tried it...OMG.. it was the best tasting beer iv ever drank!
Haven't seen this one in my local Range shop, I'll have to keep an eye out for it. I did however, pick up 3 of their wine kits. I have the red one fermenting as we speak.
just seen this, great video, my advise and what I do is, work out a weight of sugar for each bottle in priming stage, mix with some of the mix, heat it, till the sugar dissolves, this way you keep the labour, let it cool then using a syringe squirt equal amounts into every bottle, works better than mixing sugar in cold beer
I used to make home brewed beer and wine many years ago but lost interest, you may have just rekindled that. A few people here say to use dextrose instead of plain sugar, I always used invert sugar which I used to make myself and was easy. We drink lots of sparkling water so your idea of using these is brilliant. Someone here also mentioned microplastics from the bottles, well believe me you are far more likely to get microplastic contamination from your clothing than those PET bottles that are used for gazillions of products today.
speaking as a scientist, 100% true re microplastics. Don't sweat them, there are a shit ton more things in your system to worry about than microplastics.
Rice and raisin wine, make a batch then add water, sugar, yeast again for a second lighter colour/flavour. Elder flower wine lovely sparkling light flavour. Elderberry wine, used to make gallons of the stuff, it got to the stage we never bottled it, used to drink from the demi john. Absolute rocket fuel, a few glasses you won't be walking home. Never had much success with beer, but as a lager drinker it needs to be cold, even commercial lagers don't taste as good warm, similar with IPA. Anyway thanks for video, made me think about starting up again. Happy drinking everyone. 🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷🍷🍸🍸🍸
When I was about twelve my dad and his friend who lived a few doors up used to make loads of different brews. Every Sunday afternoon my dad would go up his house for an afternoon tipple after dinner and he’d usually come back home for an hour sleep before getting up, showering and going to the pub in the evening. Anyway, I was allowed a few beers and could handle about 2 pints of standard, 4% beer and be tipsy but ok. Went up there one afternoon with my dad and had half a pint of this home brew and geeeeeezus - I was bladdered. It was meant to be beer and my dads friend would taste it and guess the strength and said it was about six percent. So I was allowed some. Found out a few days later it was more near to 25% after my father took his ABV testing thing (hydrometer?) up there. Yeah, my dad always took a tester up after that if I went with him. He didn’t mind me having a beer or two and tried to foster a healthy relationship with alcohol within me. But he always checked after that.
Instead of using sugar, add one third of the weight for sugar, and use honey instead. It will cost a little more (still a fraction of supermarket or pub prices) but will make the end result so much better.
I used to make wine from some grapes in the garden, I used a packet of sugar as well and I thought I was cheating. But it tasted lovely. I used a liquidiser to mash the grapes down and yeast from the chemist. I'd get about 10 gallons and maybe bottle it or not depending on how I felt about all the sterilising and corking of wine bottles. It was great at a BBQ though to put a demijon on the table and say 'there you go - enjoy!' :-) I did try Beer but I drank it too quick :-)
Did a lot of home brew back in the 90s - mostly wine but a bit of beer, too. Had the 40L fermenter and a "Beersphere" for pressurized finishing. The kits were OK but may have improved. Mostly I experimented with mad combinations like Marmalade Beer, Tea and Raisin Wine, Lemon Mead. The wine I did in demijohns. Some of it was very vigorous and had a habit of restarting if it got a bit warm. Damson Wine comes to mind! It's fun as long as you have a bit of space including somewhere cool. The trouble was I kept drinking it!
I'm going to give it a go. The only problem I'll have is to have five of them at different stages on the go being a thirsty 40-50 pint a week guy, it'd save a few quid. Great video, thanks Fred
I’ve never brewed lager or stout as always thought I’d need a pressureized barrel but watching this makes me relize I donnt lol….i love making my wines off all the fruit I produce from my allotment…. Hopefully the range delivers..as I did go in one of the shops and couldn’t find any kits….bitby bit I’ve found ways to make wine making easier and faster …I do have some videos on my channel ..( IM IN THE SHED )… think I may have to do videos like yours of the whole process in one video as I do them in parts …great video and easy to follow unlike loads I see that make it so complicated..
Try not to open your brew until it's ready, if you need to test gravity or try it, use the tap. If bacteria gets into it it can ruin the batch. Also, if you store the bottle upside down for the first few weeks, the worst of the sediment will settle in the lid, then very very gently turn the bottles over and store without disturbing them until you're ready to drink, do not store them in your fridge door, they'll be constantly disturbed and won't clear up, ideally a secondary fridge is best. Also try and keep them for closer to two or three months before drinking. Then your beer should end up almost clear and golden rather than amber.
Brings back many happy memories - there are plenty of great kits out there for every style of beer - I regularly brewed Belgium style beers as well as Aussie lagers but my favourite was Woodford Wherry clone - the majority of what I brewed was better than what I drank in the pub - had to stop when my old Liver began to complain - keep it up but ditch the single use plastic bottles as they can leach nasty chemicals into your brew - buy some 500ml glass and a capper - cheers
I love Hop Gobbler, It's a canned kit type with extra malt and hops. If you are patient and wait as long as you can to drink your ale you get a much better flavour. It's so hard to wait. I had to make 120 pints before I was able to make enough to leave some 6 months but the improvement was remarkable. Winter is the best time for a brew as you can control the temp better and get a cleaner taste. Brewing is great as you can start simple but there are easy steps to do more without it being too much of a jump. You need a break from that sdr findfudge. Do you garden? Do any veggies?
My dad about 30 years ago used to make a lot of home brew beers, lots of different kinds, he would wrap the barrel in in an electric blanket and drop a fish tank heater in, they would be finished within 2-3 days, the hydrometer would almost hit the bottom of the plastic barrel lol, then take off the heat and leave it to settle for a couple of days, at that point it only had a mild fiz, if you want more add a teaspoon of sugar to a pressurized bottle and let it brew for an extra week or so. Its a fun and easy hobby, shame im now tea total 🤔
Just bought my first lager kit after being tempted for a while. Glad I found this video, I’ll watch it a little when I get started on mine in the next week or so. 👍🏻
Don’t drink anymore but I made my own beer for years. I’d offer friends visiting a beer and see them pull a face…. until they tried it and were shocked how good it was. Always used malt extract instead of sugar which I found to be much better flavour wise. Biggest thing is thorough sterilisation as mentioned in the video.
@ You could well be right but I tried both and preferred the brew made with malt. The owner of the home brew shop I used was a great salesman though and of course wanted to sell as much stuff to me as he possibly could.
Can i ask? how do you sterilise the bottles? i was thinking boil them right? but obviously he hasnt done that as the labels would have come off. so how did he do it i wonder.?
@ I used to use that stuff for sterilising babies bottles, I think it’s called Milton. Didn’t use plastic bottles when I was making home brew but probably not so easy to find glass bottles with a screw top now.
I used to make Geordie lager kits and bottle it , must have made hundreds of pints of the stuff, not the best tasting but it worked. I always used crown corks and brown glass bottles. To be honest you need a cellar ! helps no end with the storage !! I don't understand the bit about hours of work. If you are organised 40 pints of beer takes about I hour of work.
Constructive points are, use a brewing sugar, siphon off to remove from sediment into another 5gal container, do this 48 hours earlier, after floating a hydrometer, to get the strength, and when you pour tilt the glass at equal angle to the container of beer, and you will get a full pint 🍺, if you poured any can or bottle of beer/larger etc, you wouldn’t get anywhere near the amount of beer in glass, pointing out that it’s less carbonated than commercially brewed beverages, also buy yourself a small tripod with the ability to follow your movements. Good though!
You need proper cider apple varieties to make good cider. Dessert apples are useless unless you add a heck of a lot of crab apples. Varieties such as slack-ma-girdle and dabinette are first class.
If you want to improve your results.Use dextrose instead of ordinary sugar, get yourself a bottling wand to avoid oxidising when filling, get yourself some decent brown PET bottles. 🍻
the cane sugar is just as good ,dextrose speeds up fermentation, the man is in no hurry , why spend 5 pound on a kilo of dextro when its 1 pound a kilo for supermarket sugar it makes no difference to taste , dextro ferments faster thats all
@@paulsawtell3991 if your doing an easy on the taste buds lager yehh dextrose is the way ,beers .heavy, and stout are strong tasting bitter and sugar is good but in lager you get a tang which is sugar is a two ferment process first fructose to glucose ,dextrose is pure glucose and is straight ferment and little faster anyways thats the fun of home brew trial and error everybrew up is slightly different from the last
Nice video. Try doing a partial mash instead of using sugar. Will give you a far more tasty beer and does not require a lot of specialized equipment. Happy brewing.
You would try making mead 3-4 jars of honey per gallon demijohn, as if you go up to 6 jars it's mega sweet for most people if in doubt use 3 jars cheapest honey might be Aldi squeezy honey and champagne yeast might a good one to start with, mine goes cloudy, but maybe you could do better, but be mega careful when using hot water in demijohns, I've cracked a few that way, maybe best to use plastic bucket to melt the honey first, hope you find this useful.
Yes, all grain is the only way. I've been doing so for 45 years and the other great thing about this method is that when you get the hang of it and what the ingredients can do you can devise your own recipes. I have been brewing from my own recipes for over 25 years except for one recently which was the original Whitbread's London porter, yes their actual recipe.
I was way into this, at one time. Nothing beats liquor store buy a case or less than, or A six pack (if you have a job).. Even my 4.5 % beer. Moonshiners on Discovery. But anyway, cheers Fred (drink responsibly) . yeah, crazy, I have hops plants (in 1/2 whiskey barrels if they lived over MN winter) and grape plants (joke really). I did one thing with meat grinder and neighbors cranberries, (wasps surrounding(. It smelled like boo berry crunch kiddy cereal. I spring watered it down, Lavalin 118. Hey, it was FUN! I enjoyed myself. i'm no moonshiner! I think the flocculation gave me a headace.
Oh and Fred thank you so much for all your videos I need to ask a quick question if that is ok I have recently ordered a baofang 888S but got that BF-88E I'm just wondering do you know how to get it on to scan mode they sent me the wrong one and don't know whether to keep it do I need a lead and a computer to program scam or can I do it through the side buttons thank you so much
Hi Axel. Yes your going to need the USB program lead. You can then download the program software which should allow you to activate the scan mode. Also once you have the lead you might be able to switch on 2w high power mode via CHIRP software. Enjoy.
@@CB-RADIO-UK Hey thank you for your kind words. I do have the Olywiz 826 and you don't need a lead for those but yeah ok thank you so so much, I have ordered one but don't have a computer can I do this on my phone or will I have to find somebody's computer or laptop or library for this I'm sorry to hassle you with so many questions but you're the main guy that I need to come to for all of this
Been brewing beer for 6 years now & have never seen this myo beer kits, they are not on eBay or at the local brew shop ? Never heard of a taste test as I use a hydrometer for alcohol gravity. I brew beer / wine / Cider
Guess these extracts have been boiled already. He said sparkling water bottles so they would be designed for pressure. But they’re clear so keep away from UV light
When pouring a bottled conditioned beer do it all in one go ..leaving a half inch in the bottle. The half a bottle that you left will now be cloudy as hell ! :oD
That’s the problem with using litre bottles and pint glasses. It will oxidise before it clears and will be wasted…….my first thought when he bottled it on litre bottles. To get round this, with litre bottles i would pour the full bottle into a litre jug leaving the undisturbed sediment in the bottle.
Just rack the beer a few times before bottling as long as you don't let the air get to the beer and your equipment is perfectly steralised it's fine there will be no large amount sediment to worry about then If you get the fermentation right most of the trub will stay in the first fermentation vessel anyway
You get a very good head / carbonation on your MYO brews. I'm wondering if it's because you're using granulated sugar. I'll be brewing the MYO stout shortly but will use a 50/50 mixture of dextrose and extra dark DME instead. Nerveless, hopefully I'll get the same amount of head / carbonation you've achieved.
Did a recipe for home cider back in the 80's, from memory. Keep the sediment from a brew of beer lager preferably, add an amount of apple juice can't remember exact amount so wont say, top up with water, add sugar again can't remember how much. No need for yeast its in the sediment. Ferment out. What i can remember is it tasted incredible and if you weren't careful blinded you. Excellent video thank you.. now where did i put my beer i can't see it.
I tried it twenty or so years ago and it was a disaster but there are things you did that were not in the instructions then so may have another go ? Any idea what the strengh was ?
The plastic bottles just look wrong to me if I’m honest. I brew St Peter’s golden ale, always use 500 ml amber glass and clean them first with boiling water and Sodium Percarbonate
Cheers Fred! Bottoms up! Ya know, I might just give this a go. The price seems very reasonable. How much did you pay in total per pint? Ya know, including the barrel and sterilizer etc? Thanks for the Vid :)
I don't know if you noticed this already, but it's says top up to 23 litres, not add 23 litres to the original hot water. Might find your losing flavour, body and abv by using the extra water
try all grain brewing, it is more involved and more equipment is required but you get full control over the taste , look and feel of the beer , although I do like some of the kits as the LME is usually of a very high quality
As an age old home brewer
regarding the sediment in the bottle of the bottle. If you put a couple of bottles in the fridge foer 2 or 3 hours, when you come to pour, the sediment will have hardened and will ssay put at the bottom of the bottle.
I have noticed this too. I like to give my beers at least an overnight chilling. The better I do making a clear brew being bottled, the thinner the sediment is, hard to even see. I rack though.
Thats a great tip and makes perfect sense.
One pour ,usually does the trick,big glasses
Top tip.👍
i made one of these kits but mixed up kilos and pounds so i put 2 kilos instead of 2 pounds, took nearly 3 weeks to stop fermenting but wow what a pint it tasted great and had a real kick these kits are really forgiving.
I bet that packed a real punch! Any guesses what the ABV might've been on it?
@nate_river_ not a clue it was a Scottish style Heavy and should have been just 3.7abv but was way strongeri would guess around 6% but thats just a guess, really nice tasting pint though and as shown on video so easy to do. If you get a kit you like you can play around with it a bit, too bitter you can reduce the hops but the kits are so reasonably priced if you dont like it pour it away and try another.
I'll take two cases!
A little tip, squeeze the air out after filling up the bottle, this reduces the chance of oxidation. It will expand again after a couple of days as co2 is produced.
No one talking about those home made pasties!
They looked absolutely YUMMYYYYYYY! 💪👌😍
what about the gnocci for dinner, what did you have with it mate?? baby spinach was that? and also buffalo mozz? or burrata?
@@jamiew1664 Foreign muck .........
Used to make beer from a Boots kit which had live liquid yeast that you could use again, tasted great & never failed.
Me too.😃
And Me, always had a batch on the go, 40 pints of Boots Continental Lager, ( made with liquid yeast), unfortunately had to stop as I had constant callers 7 days a week, after free booze.
I think my dad tried that once in the 70's. I recall there was some mother related fallout ...
@@casinodelonge
Lol.
Frid in the shed your Myo beer kit is awesome 👌 👏 👍 🎉😊😊
Good result Fred! Watching that brought back some good memories of when we were skint before my daughter was born many years ago. We’d sit drinking homebrew listening to music at weekends. Simpler times.
I used to use finings from a sachet to clear the beer more, not sure if they actually did much but those were the pre internet days when you got information from books 😂
73’s Franco
That is awesome!
On vinyl one hopes!
On recommendation I purchased a Boots lager kit. After a few weeks I tried it and it was awful. If I remember correctly, I popped some sugar in left it for quite a while.
Anyway, grabbed a couple of bottles one night, flipped the top off, and it nearly smashed the neck of the bottle! My wife and I drank them and when we came to stand up to go to bed, we could hardly walk and laughed all the way up the stairs, as we tried to get to the top.
We often laugh about it - but boy was it strong!😂
Love videos like this, shows that "consensus" isn't always the be-all.
Most would say adding hops post fermentation and by lifting the lid exposes beer to oxygen potentially causing it to go bad more quickly.
That letting beer freefall into the bottles from the tap will seriously airate the beer, further adding oxygen + making beer go bad.
Using clear bottles increases chances of "light struck" / "skunked" beer.
Yet the proof is in the pudding; beer looked very good and obviously tasted good, and was great value. Winner!
Only thing being, adding 10% extra water will reduce the ABV, strength of flavors etc
But whether that helped / hindered is subjective. After all, got more beer out of it in the end.
Could even experiment with different hops etc if wanting to tweak it.
Perhaps get a bottle wand, very cheap. Takes longer to fill bottles, but drastically reduces airation (probably).
Many say adding VitaminC to the beer at yeast pitch time helps avoid oxidation of beer. Circa 0.3g per Litre.
Again, cheap to get hold of in powder form.
Other than that, why change too much a process that you know works. Mega video, great result! Definitely giving this a try!
Back in the day I brewed some stout. It was disgusting. Put it aside and a year later pulled it out because needed the bottles. Tried one and it was delicious.
Lol typical, bet you forgot the recipe by then😅
did the same (many years ago as a student) my home brew was never that good, then one day rooting through the empty bottles i found an unopened, un drunk bottle , tried it...OMG.. it was the best tasting beer iv ever drank!
I find to be drinkable beer needs 3 months at least.
🤣
Buxton beer 😀
This was interesting, as I had no idea this is how it was made
Haven't seen this one in my local Range shop, I'll have to keep an eye out for it. I did however, pick up 3 of their wine kits. I have the red one fermenting as we speak.
Hi James. Have not tried the wine kits myself but the beer kits seem bomb proof.
Great video and a little different from your usual…those Pasties look very appealing too!😋
just seen this, great video, my advise and what I do is, work out a weight of sugar for each bottle in priming stage, mix with some of the mix, heat it, till the sugar dissolves, this way you keep the labour, let it cool then using a syringe squirt equal amounts into every bottle, works better than mixing sugar in cold beer
Great tip!
I used to make home brewed beer and wine many years ago but lost interest, you may have just rekindled that. A few people here say to use dextrose instead of plain sugar, I always used invert sugar which I used to make myself and was easy. We drink lots of sparkling water so your idea of using these is brilliant. Someone here also mentioned microplastics from the bottles, well believe me you are far more likely to get microplastic contamination from your clothing than those PET bottles that are used for gazillions of products today.
speaking as a scientist, 100% true re microplastics. Don't sweat them, there are a shit ton more things in your system to worry about than microplastics.
Rice and raisin wine, make a batch then add water, sugar, yeast again for a second lighter colour/flavour.
Elder flower wine lovely sparkling light flavour.
Elderberry wine, used to make gallons of the stuff, it got to the stage we never bottled it, used to drink from the demi john. Absolute rocket fuel, a few glasses you won't be walking home.
Never had much success with beer, but as a lager drinker it needs to be cold, even commercial lagers don't taste as good warm, similar with IPA. Anyway thanks for video, made me think about starting up again. Happy drinking everyone. 🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷🍷🍸🍸🍸
When I was about twelve my dad and his friend who lived a few doors up used to make loads of different brews. Every Sunday afternoon my dad would go up his house for an afternoon tipple after dinner and he’d usually come back home for an hour sleep before getting up, showering and going to the pub in the evening.
Anyway, I was allowed a few beers and could handle about 2 pints of standard, 4% beer and be tipsy but ok.
Went up there one afternoon with my dad and had half a pint of this home brew and geeeeeezus - I was bladdered.
It was meant to be beer and my dads friend would taste it and guess the strength and said it was about six percent. So I was allowed some.
Found out a few days later it was more near to 25% after my father took his ABV testing thing (hydrometer?) up there.
Yeah, my dad always took a tester up after that if I went with him. He didn’t mind me having a beer or two and tried to foster a healthy relationship with alcohol within me. But he always checked after that.
Instead of using sugar, add one third of the weight for sugar, and use honey instead. It will cost a little more (still a fraction of supermarket or pub prices) but will make the end result so much better.
I used to make wine from some grapes in the garden, I used a packet of sugar as well and I thought I was cheating. But it tasted lovely. I used a liquidiser to mash the grapes down and yeast from the chemist. I'd get about 10 gallons and maybe bottle it or not depending on how I felt about all the sterilising and corking of wine bottles. It was great at a BBQ though to put a demijon on the table and say 'there you go - enjoy!' :-) I did try Beer but I drank it too quick :-)
Did a lot of home brew back in the 90s - mostly wine but a bit of beer, too. Had the 40L fermenter and a "Beersphere" for pressurized finishing. The kits were OK but may have improved. Mostly I experimented with mad combinations like Marmalade Beer, Tea and Raisin Wine, Lemon Mead. The wine I did in demijohns. Some of it was very vigorous and had a habit of restarting if it got a bit warm. Damson Wine comes to mind! It's fun as long as you have a bit of space including somewhere cool.
The trouble was I kept drinking it!
I'm going to give it a go. The only problem I'll have is to have five of them at different stages on the go being a thirsty 40-50 pint a week guy, it'd save a few quid.
Great video, thanks Fred
If you like a good drink you can save a fortune. My best tip is make sure you clean and sterilize everything well.
40-50 pints a week? Jesus 😂😂😂
Use pressure barrels instead of all those bottles.
I think you need to go AA
I’ve never brewed lager or stout as always thought I’d need a pressureized barrel but watching this makes me relize I donnt lol….i love making my wines off all the fruit I produce from my allotment…. Hopefully the range delivers..as I did go in one of the shops and couldn’t find any kits….bitby bit I’ve found ways to make wine making easier and faster …I do have some videos on my channel ..( IM IN THE SHED )… think I may have to do videos like yours of the whole process in one video as I do them in parts …great video and easy to follow unlike loads I see that make it so complicated..
good video, came out well , enjoy..
Try not to open your brew until it's ready, if you need to test gravity or try it, use the tap. If bacteria gets into it it can ruin the batch.
Also, if you store the bottle upside down for the first few weeks, the worst of the sediment will settle in the lid, then very very gently turn the bottles over and store without disturbing them until you're ready to drink, do not store them in your fridge door, they'll be constantly disturbed and won't clear up, ideally a secondary fridge is best. Also try and keep them for closer to two or three months before drinking. Then your beer should end up almost clear and golden rather than amber.
Hey that's awesome and you must have had some practise as I thought the head would overflow but it just stayed in the glass well done
Hi there how much did it cost for the kit fred
The beer kit is around £12.70 plus £4 P&P or about £15 in the store.
Brings back many happy memories - there are plenty of great kits out there for every style of beer - I regularly brewed Belgium style beers as well as Aussie lagers but my favourite was Woodford Wherry clone - the majority of what I brewed was better than what I drank in the pub - had to stop when my old Liver began to complain - keep it up but ditch the single use plastic bottles as they can leach nasty chemicals into your brew - buy some 500ml glass and a capper - cheers
Wherry was a great beer in kit form
Had a IPA kit from the range before and it was amazing
I love Hop Gobbler, It's a canned kit type with extra malt and hops. If you are patient and wait as long as you can to drink your ale you get a much better flavour. It's so hard to wait. I had to make 120 pints before I was able to make enough to leave some 6 months but the improvement was remarkable. Winter is the best time for a brew as you can control the temp better and get a cleaner taste. Brewing is great as you can start simple but there are easy steps to do more without it being too much of a jump. You need a break from that sdr findfudge. Do you garden? Do any veggies?
Hi Don. Mrs Fred grows all types of veggies in pots. Recently sprouted Mung Beans.
Looks good, but for goodness sake, would you ever tilt your glass when you’re pouring the dam beer!
My dad about 30 years ago used to make a lot of home brew beers, lots of different kinds, he would wrap the barrel in in an electric blanket and drop a fish tank heater in, they would be finished within 2-3 days, the hydrometer would almost hit the bottom of the plastic barrel lol, then take off the heat and leave it to settle for a couple of days, at that point it only had a mild fiz, if you want more add a teaspoon of sugar to a pressurized bottle and let it brew for an extra week or so. Its a fun and easy hobby, shame im now tea total 🤔
Just bought my first lager kit after being tempted for a while. Glad I found this video, I’ll watch it a little when I get started on mine in the next week or so. 👍🏻
How did it turn out?
Good?
I'd buy a soda stream, fill the bottles up with gas and leave them in the fridge for super fizzy and cold brew.
What a great idea
Don’t drink anymore but I made my own beer for years. I’d offer friends visiting a beer and see them pull a face…. until they tried it and were shocked how good it was. Always used malt extract instead of sugar which I found to be much better flavour wise. Biggest thing is thorough sterilisation as mentioned in the video.
malt makes no difference to sugar, big myth
@ You could well be right but I tried both and preferred the brew made with malt. The owner of the home brew shop I used was a great salesman though and of course wanted to sell as much stuff to me as he possibly could.
@@ianashton1593 there are many factors, lookup the experiments for sugar vs malt in brewing forums
Can i ask? how do you sterilise the bottles? i was thinking boil them right? but obviously he hasnt done that as the labels would have come off. so how did he do it i wonder.?
@ I used to use that stuff for sterilising babies bottles, I think it’s called Milton. Didn’t use plastic bottles when I was making home brew but probably not so easy to find glass bottles with a screw top now.
Looks good! Beer and radio together 😂 I would like to try the stout kit.
I used to make Geordie lager kits and bottle it , must have made hundreds of pints of the stuff, not the best tasting but it worked. I always used crown corks and brown glass bottles. To be honest you need a cellar ! helps no end with the storage !! I don't understand the bit about hours of work. If you are organised 40 pints of beer takes about I hour of work.
Constructive points are, use a brewing sugar, siphon off to remove from sediment into another 5gal container, do this 48 hours earlier, after floating a hydrometer, to get the strength, and when you pour tilt the glass at equal angle to the container of beer, and you will get a full pint 🍺, if you poured any can or bottle of beer/larger etc, you wouldn’t get anywhere near the amount of beer in glass, pointing out that it’s less carbonated than commercially brewed beverages, also buy yourself a small tripod with the ability to follow your movements.
Good though!
Nice one.
Brewing is fun😊
Great video! I'm more of a cider drinker so I planted a few apple trees last year to have a go at home brewing. Looks like fun and saves a few quid!
You can make scrumpy with 4 litres of apple juice and a demijohn mate
You need proper cider apple varieties to make good cider. Dessert apples are useless unless you add a heck of a lot of crab apples. Varieties such as slack-ma-girdle and dabinette are first class.
@@Rickypp And then you can pour it down the sink because it tastes disgusting.
@@paulsawtell3991 depends on the juice used
@@paulsawtell3991 nope tastes good and is a lot simpler to do.Pasteurised apple juice,half a mug of strong tea and champagne yeast.
I done my homebrew in my dads shed ,was a full blown alcoholic by 12
That looks really good for a home made beer, well done
Thanks. I had a go.
Fantastic Video 🍺
Thank you! Cheers!
Put the syrup in a pot of boiling water for ten minutes its easier to pour out!
It looks great 👍
Lots of negative comments. Nice job. 😃👍
If you want to improve your results.Use dextrose instead of ordinary sugar, get yourself a bottling wand to avoid oxidising when filling, get yourself some decent brown PET bottles.
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Great tips. Many thanks.
the cane sugar is just as good ,dextrose speeds up fermentation, the man is in no hurry , why spend 5 pound on a kilo of dextro when its 1 pound a kilo for supermarket sugar it makes no difference to taste , dextro ferments faster thats all
If you really want to improve you do a proper mash and leave kits well alone.
@@theresnobodyhere5778 It's right; sugar ferments out completely and leave no residual flavours.
@@paulsawtell3991 if your doing an easy on the taste buds lager yehh dextrose is the way ,beers .heavy, and stout are strong tasting bitter and sugar is good but in lager you get a tang which is sugar is a two ferment process first fructose to glucose ,dextrose is pure glucose and is straight ferment and little faster anyways thats the fun of home brew trial and error everybrew up is slightly different from the last
Carbon Dioxide? . . . . Have you run this past Ed Milliband?
These kits will be banned by Labour soon, I'm sure.
Ed-Zero...😂
Nice video.
Try doing a partial mash instead of using sugar. Will give you a far more tasty beer and does not require a lot of specialized equipment.
Happy brewing.
That looked nice to my eyes well done youth given me the confidence to go ahead brew something for myself. Atb Michael
Well done. Looks awesome!
Thanks!! Interesting
Awsome, I wouldnt have added tap water though.
You would try making mead 3-4 jars of honey per gallon demijohn, as if you go up to 6 jars it's mega sweet for most people if in doubt use 3 jars cheapest honey might be Aldi squeezy honey and champagne yeast might a good one to start with, mine goes cloudy, but maybe you could do better, but be mega careful when using hot water in demijohns, I've cracked a few that way, maybe best to use plastic bucket to melt the honey first, hope you find this useful.
Enjoyable video. I moved over to all grain brewing a few years back but seeing this brought back years if kit brewing and that taste of kit twang.
Yes, all grain is the only way. I've been doing so for 45 years and the other great thing about this method is that when you get the hang of it and what the ingredients can do you can devise your own recipes. I have been brewing from my own recipes for over 25 years except for one recently which was the original Whitbread's London porter, yes their actual recipe.
I was way into this, at one time. Nothing beats liquor store buy a case or less than, or A six pack (if you have a job).. Even my 4.5 % beer. Moonshiners on Discovery. But anyway, cheers Fred (drink responsibly) . yeah, crazy, I have hops plants (in 1/2 whiskey barrels if they lived over MN winter) and grape plants (joke really). I did one thing with meat grinder and neighbors cranberries, (wasps surrounding(. It smelled like boo berry crunch kiddy cereal. I spring watered it down, Lavalin 118. Hey, it was FUN! I enjoyed myself. i'm no moonshiner! I think the flocculation gave me a headace.
Great video. Where did you get the big white plastic container with the tap from?
Its branded "bigger jugs"
Great tutorial. Thanks😊
@ 04:45 Richard Attenborough over here !
A remember making barley wine it was rocket fuel ,2 pints and you new you’d had a couple 👍🇬🇧
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Frid in the shed I learn lot from you about cbs radios
10:38 you can use that stuff (barm) to make bread
I enjoyed this video thank you
great video mate going to try this :D
Have fun
You should use brewing sugar, it'll taste better
Oh and Fred thank you so much for all your videos I need to ask a quick question if that is ok I have recently ordered a baofang 888S but got that BF-88E I'm just wondering do you know how to get it on to scan mode they sent me the wrong one and don't know whether to keep it do I need a lead and a computer to program scam or can I do it through the side buttons thank you so much
Hi Axel. Yes your going to need the USB program lead. You can then download the program software which should allow you to activate the scan mode. Also once you have the lead you might be able to switch on 2w high power mode via CHIRP software. Enjoy.
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Hey thank you for your kind words.
I do have the Olywiz 826 and you don't need a lead for those but yeah ok thank you so so much, I have ordered one but don't have a computer can I do this on my phone or will I have to find somebody's computer or laptop or library for this I'm sorry to hassle you with so many questions but you're the main guy that I need to come to for all of this
Ive only used a PC via USB. Might be able to use a phone. You would need to google. Cheers
Great stuff!
Good video thank you
Looks good
Been brewing beer for 6 years now & have never seen this myo beer kits, they are not on eBay or at the local brew shop ? Never heard of a taste test as I use a hydrometer for alcohol gravity. I brew beer / wine / Cider
Surprising that the kit did not instruct to boil the wort.
Those plastic bottles are not designed for pressure are they?
Turned out looking good.
Guess these extracts have been boiled already. He said sparkling water bottles so they would be designed for pressure. But they’re clear so keep away from UV light
A good decent beer for the price, great entry level brew, well worth it😊
Coopers European lager is better and cheaper.
When pouring a bottled conditioned beer do it all in one go ..leaving a half inch in the bottle. The half a bottle that you left will now be cloudy as hell ! :oD
That’s the problem with using litre bottles and pint glasses. It will oxidise before it clears and will be wasted…….my first thought when he bottled it on litre bottles.
To get round this, with litre bottles i would pour the full bottle into a litre jug leaving the undisturbed sediment in the bottle.
Just rack the beer a few times before bottling as long as you don't let the air get to the beer and your equipment is perfectly steralised it's fine there will be no large amount sediment to worry about then
If you get the fermentation right most of the trub will stay in the first fermentation vessel anyway
my dad used to do home brew in the 60s and it was total crap thick sediment in the bottom put me off for life
When you said i should get 20+ litres of beer that felt great 👍
What’s opening time tomorrow please ?
Good vid, thanks
Most beers are filtered to remove the sediment.
What would happen if you used brown sugar or demerara ?
I think brown sugar would improve the taste.
You get a very good head / carbonation on your MYO brews. I'm wondering if it's because you're using granulated sugar. I'll be brewing the MYO stout shortly but will use a 50/50 mixture of dextrose and extra dark DME instead. Nerveless, hopefully I'll get the same amount of head / carbonation you've achieved.
Yes it may be the sugar. Very lively beer.
If you want a foaming head, use some flaked barley.
Did a recipe for home cider back in the 80's, from memory.
Keep the sediment from a brew of beer lager preferably, add an amount of apple juice can't remember exact amount so wont say, top up with water, add sugar again can't remember how much. No need for yeast its in the sediment. Ferment out. What i can remember is it tasted incredible and if you weren't careful blinded you. Excellent video thank you.. now where did i put my beer i can't see it.
Sounds great!
Gravity/ strength? Thank you.
Hi did not measure as only have equipment for wine.
I tried it twenty or so years ago and it was a disaster but there are things you did that were not in the instructions then so may have another go ? Any idea what the strengh was ?
Hi. Not too strong prob around 3.5 - 4 abv. This Pinter system is easier. ua-cam.com/video/TrYEa1lTj24/v-deo.html
Lager is made under cold temperatures so it won't have a lager taste unless you chill it during fermentation.
bloody hell its been over 30 years since i last made a home brew kit.. talk about memory's!
Frid in the shed your utube videos are awesome 👌 👏 👍 🎉😊😊
The plastic bottles just look wrong to me if I’m honest.
I brew St Peter’s golden ale, always use 500 ml amber glass and clean them first with boiling water and Sodium Percarbonate
Cheers Fred! Bottoms up! Ya know, I might just give this a go. The price seems very reasonable. How much did you pay in total per pint? Ya know, including the barrel and sterilizer etc? Thanks for the Vid :)
Hi. Hard to work out as ive had the barrel a while. The sterilizer is something like £1.50 a packet and lasts ages.
Kits are an expensive way to make home brew. I do a full mash and it works out at less than 20p per pint and tastes a whole lot more like beer.
Need to make some original Boddingtons
I don't know if you noticed this already, but it's says top up to 23 litres, not add 23 litres to the original hot water. Might find your losing flavour, body and abv by using the extra water
Could be. I found it a pleasant brew. It aged well too.
Do you shake the bottle before leaving it for a few days.
No did not try that.
Thanks for your video pal. Really enjoyed. Just making some wine and wanted to do the beer. Looks a great kit..
how can I make a fizzy malt drink, the same as the ones you can buy in the little bottles?
Doesn't pouring the lager into the glass from a great height flatten the lager .....
Not really. I have normally drunk it before it has any chance to go flat.
good vid very good
Thanks!
Lovely with a tray of Fred's wife's homemade samosa.😋
Apple turnovers.
Couldn't wait runs to ALDI
What % alcohol did you end up with fred ?
I can only guess around 4.5 abr but could not test.
5:37 tastes like beer ..another one!!! hahahha so funny 🙂
Would it be an issue to turn the bottle upside down before serving to get more CO2 into the beer ?
Guess that might work.
Use molasses the results will be outstanding.
how easy is to brew cooking fuel ? Like water yeast fruit / potato sugar ?
LOL no idea.
try all grain brewing, it is more involved and more equipment is required but you get full control over the taste , look and feel of the beer , although I do like some of the kits as the LME is usually of a very high quality
Did you buy all the brewing kit (bucket and the thing you put in the top) from the range aswell?
Hi. Not that was "bigger jugs" from Amazon.
@CB-RADIO-UK thanks I'm looking into where I buy the setup so I can make my own beer. I'll have to do abit more research on what I need to buy.
I ve moved on to to Pinter. Check it here. ua-cam.com/video/TrYEa1lTj24/v-deo.html