I always shake my head when I see a $700 fermentor in a closet with no temp control 🤦♂️. The fermentation vessel is the last thing we should spend money on. There are 4 things that brought my beer to truly commercial quality. Temp control, yeast starters (or pitching multiple packs), pure oxygen with a diffusion stone, not just shaking the fermentor, and water chemistry. If those 4 elements are on point you will make commercial quality beer in a plastic bucket.
10 gallon batches in a keggle was game changing for me. Since I’m going to go through the same process and cleaning anyway, getting another 5 gallons out of it is way more motivating.
@@tman9338 BIAB in a half barrel keggle over a propane burner on a stand I built tall enough to gravity transfer into the corny kegs I use as fermentation vessels. I'm doing around 9.5 gallons of finished wort and for giant grain bills I'm limited to smaller brews. I don't like lifting more than 5 gallons so gravity transfers and pressure transfers always, and I don't have to clean a pump. Rock on
@@RedGreen1 Great idea! I have extra Corny kegs - possible to send a pic of your setup showing fittings on Corney? Possilbe to send video or pic of your setup next time u brew??
@@ignoranceisstrenght1984 They do not need to be air tight.Beer makes pressure not a vacuum. I never use an air-lock no problems. Besides its homebrew no worries.
I’m a self confessed low budget brewer. I use canned extract from Woolworths home brand, buy 20 kg (44lb) dry malt extract, dextrose by the 10 kg (22lb) filter own water, co2 purge kegs from harvesting fermentation co2, buy bulk hops and yeast past its use by date… Yep… I’m cheap.. but the beer is better than the moronic swill from big Aussie breweries.
If you live in Canada you save money for sure. In the long run of course, because of the upfront cost. Also depending of course on what you're brewing. If its a simple Hefe using dry yeast or a big IPA with 10oz of hops and liquid yeast. Your return on investment will be a lot longer brewing those expensive beers. That being said, people ask me that question all the time and I explain its a hobby so i don't look at it that way. But I tell them generally speaking I'm producing craft beer for at least half the cost of the liquor store and a 1/4 that of pubs. Most hobbies make you zero money and just cost you, so I think its great.
In golf we say there are no pictures on your scorecard. If you score well it speaks for itself. So if your beer tastes great who cares how expensive your equipment is!
Preach braj! The right way is the way that gets YOU beer YOU love. I started BIAB in my 6gal crab boiler and fermenting in a plastic bucket. I upgraded to ssbrewbucket and kegging, will probably bite the bullet and go Anvil foundry for my bday, then my kit will be complete. Kegging is a gamechanger. 55lbs grain, 1lb hops, lhbs for specialty and yeast for the WIN. Solid advice here braj. Back to writing this weekend's porter recipe...
I love the "nice, but not necessary." I have a friend that's a chemist that struggled with brewing as cheaply as possible so when I decided to get into brewing i listened to where he struggled and bought some upgraded stuff to start. I Bottled once and decided...bump that, went to kegging and that made my brewing much more pleasureable. Bottling is the absolute worst and I have heard so many people struggle with not the. Reading itself, but dealing with so many vessels to clean/sanitize.
I did some of this low budget stuff by accident. Started piecing things together over a few months before I started brewing. I'm curious if I crunch the numbers if I could've bought a all in one system with the money I've spent already. But oh well. BIAB been working for me for 3 brews now. Next purchase will be grain mill so I can do bulk grains.
The last time I home brewed was 2005... I'm looking to get back into brewing with a cheap, scalable system and, honestly, there's too much out there. Thanks for cutting through the noise, I'm looking forwards to doing some smooth batches of dunkel in the near future! Hope to see y'all up in vista sometime!
Loving the straight forward advice on equipment. You’ve convinced me to buy a vacuum sealer. Haha! I’ve actually been meaning to find a more efficient ways to store hops. Any tips of buying fruit on a budget? Love your input! Cheers fellow homebrewer!
Very good advice, thanks CH. A buddy asked me which brewing system he should get, and I recommended BIAB to him. It really depends on what you want: - If you want ease of use and automation, get a grainfather or equivalent system. - if you want more hands-on and old-school brewing method, get a 3 pot system. - if you want the least fuss and the cheapest/simplest system, BIAB is great.
Really solid advice...so if you're watching this and you wanna start brewing - DO IT! You don't need fancy equipment to make great beer...and it is a lot of fun. I do love CH's content - it's spot on. CHEERS BRAJ!
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE For all you guys who might be looking to acquire a Vittle Vault - it's a pet food container with a gamma lid seal that keeps your grains safe, dry and no bugs...but they are expensive - take a look at Marshalls stores...they have these sometimes for CHEAP! BRAJ ON!
I've just had a look at my equipment tracker... sitting at about £1700 spent on equipment, never mind ingredients. Have I made a lot of beer - yes Have I had fun making lots of beer - yes Have my friends, who thought I was mental for converting the garage into a microbrewery and taproom been proven wrong, because lockdown closed all the pubs for nearly a year - yes Conclusion - totes worth it.
Great video, and 100% on point, especially #5. You know what I bought after using my CF5 for a while? An anvil bucket, because it's easier to use. Also, way to shout out all the fellow brewtubers, cheers to that!
Good tips. I don't mind using hop extract for bittering and saving pellets for flavor and aroma. A 5 mL syringe is about the equivalent as 4ish ounces of hops and a fraction of the cost.
i time travel......and go back to 1970 and my favorite pub where a glass of draft is 30 cents and a pack of smokes about $1.25..time travel is great,other than that a six pack of colt 45 is awesome :]
Interesting that you come out with this as I'm currently moving off my 10Gal 2 vessel system to 1BBL 2 vessel system. Mostly because I want to brew less often so i have time to get thigs done . Brewing every other weekend is taking up too much time... Now i can brew about 8 times a year and have the same volume of beer. I was on the 10gal system for 7years.
I've been doing some lagers for the summer and those beers are coming out really cheap! Less than $20 for 5 gallon batches. Keep brewing Braj! Check you on the Hoppy Hour....MBC!!!
I did a first (saison) and third place (ipa) on a national, pro and amateur competition. Both in buckets. The first place was a split batch freak accident. My cellar is at 17C - I can increase with a heat pad where needed. Still like the shiny stuff though. Lol
If you live in a climate where you can grow hops, you can get a really good return on investment. Also buying used is good 2...i got a kegerator with a keg n. O2 tank for 300, some people buy the stuff and get bored
I wish I would have had this advice back in 2010. But I have lived and learned, and spent money on different things. I think as long as you keep at it and brew enough good beer, the cost of equipment is nothing in the long run. But it's a matter of buying the right shit to begin with
Great advice watching from the Uk here keep it simple I brew my own beer so that I can have the beers me and my friends like you don’t have to have all the latest shiny all singing all dancing gear. You can make great beer with some pretty basic equipment keep it sanitised follow your recipes and you’ve cracked it cheers everybody.
Excellent advice but I do reuse yeast just because I like to have a few strains on hand. I love brewing but I do use a brewzilla 65l and it's awesome. No way I'd buy grain by the pound and hops by the ounce at the brew store anymore. I get a 55 lbs of rahr pilsner and pale malt for 46 bucks at my local store. I love my local shop but I gotta feed my kids and put gas in the old dodge truck that gets horrible gas mileage. Cheers man I appreciate your videos
Saving money by homebrewing? That's the kind of thing you tell the girlfriend after unboxing your new toys! But I get your point. It does not have to be expensive. Great video and great tips, most of them I do. I have the foundry 10.5 and a mash king cooler and I started to think about how I can scale up. Mash more, take 6.5g, batch sparge and collect a weaker wort.
Bro I had the same shock when I did my first hazy. Problem was the home brew shop was only doing phone call orders and you pick up. Saw my 65 dollar receipt lol
One vessel to brew them all, one vessel to ferment them, one vessel to carb them and one vessel to crack them all, In the Land of Mordor where the Brajes lie...
Struggling with the last one. "Nice is not necessary." I still do Partial Mashes with extracts (The homebrew shop by me has bulk Pilsner extract for similar prices to gran. Like $1.50 per lb) because I don't have a ton of gear, and it works totally fine. I still want a nice Anvil Foundry. But is it necessary? Probably not. Kinda like you've said before, it's all about nailing down your system and making it work for you.
I'm interested in the 10 gallon BIAB system you end up with. I'd love to have a 20 Gallon Spike Solo, but can't $$$wing it, so I want to build my own version of it.
@@AlexMoss002 Thanks for the tip. I've seen their stuff, and it looks great. But, their 20 gallon kettle, (10 gallon batch) system is $1800, which is similar to the Spike Solo.
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE we use a 2 pulley system to cut the weight in half. Hook it to a piece of rebar straddled on the last 2 rungs of a ladder. Work smarter, not harder!
@@tman9338 I don't, but it's a pretty simple setup. Make sure your burner is 16"x16" a 15 gallon keggle fits perfectly on it. I strap an 8 gallon kettle with water heated to 170 degrees high on the ladder steps and rinse off the grain slowly as the bag is hanging & draining. Make sure you give the bag a good squeeze & be careful it's hot!
The biab method is what I do, if you still have your keggle there's a company that makes a biab for keggles. Morebeer.com also has some cheaper ones which fit keggles. I use 2 1 for grains, then one for pellet hops. As for 6pk of good beer price where Im at its $10, but I hate paying that price for beer so I make my own.
I have been propagating my own yeast for a few months now. I've been using imperial the most. What is your favorite brand of yeast to use? Thanks, Keep up the great work Braj's
@delreydavid that's what I meant by propagating. Just doing an over build on the cell count and keep the rest to make a starter again and keep overbuilding enough to keep it going. Although I only do it about 5-6 times from the original yeast packet.
You can save a lot of money over building a yeast starter and reuse the yeast! I’ve made over 50 gallons for beer with one thing of yeast. Highly recommend
@@tman9338 white labs 001 has been my go to for a lot of brews, along with Imperal yeast juice. ua-cam.com/video/-qv_HF-YDQQ/v-deo.html this video explains how to build your yeast up and save a little to use for your next batch.
Well you guys lucky . i buy extract beer cost 18$ and few other things like corn sugar for 40$ + 450$ for DHL shipping alone from USA to Saudi Arabia lol . so just 1 extract for 5 GL batch cost me more then 500$ . so is it worth it ? well if you live in a country not allowing alcohol then yes at least for me
1. SMASH - Single Malt And Single Hop. 2. An Anvil pump is like $50. It makes gravity a thing of the past. (Queue floating dog) Simplifies the day so much! I love mine. I had a cheap $18 solar pump but it kept getting clogged and hops debris ruined it. Wished I went to the expensive one first. 3. Splatches. Nice. I love split batches. 4. Dude. I wish I could find $40 55# bags of grain. :mindexplodes:
I saw the video and nearly creamed my shorts. Been looking for a basket that will fit in my keggle and won’t break the bank. Got sharp edges on my keggle and afraid I’ll rip my bag.
I would have to brew for the rest of my life to break even. I like to compare it to fishing- could a fisherman ever break even catching their own fish vs buying it at a seafood market? Some of those fisherman have an easy $50K in the boat alone. The fact is, fresh caught fish taste better because you caught it yourself and it's more fresh. Same idea with homebrew I would think!
Is it dry or liquid extract? Dry lasts waaaay longer. 5 to 9lbs a batch probably, so you have extract plus steeping grains and hops. So what...25-30$ a batch. Not terrible
@@bobbob-ze9zo for me I still do both. I live up in Alaska though and it's harder to get fresh ingredients. A lot of people crap on extract but I've made awesome beers and in less time than all grain. With all grain you have more control over your beers I feel but either will produce awesome results as long as you are doing everything else right
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE yeah, Amazon doesn’t look so great for selection. Yakima valley looks great! Have you noticed differences with 2017, 2018/19,2020 batches? Think it’s better to buy 2020/2021 hops instead?
Fuck the math. My daily beers are clewrly making their beer with cheaper ingredients. Im out. Ill just make my own. Already did the same with most of the food in the store, may as well make my own beer
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE BTW: I only recently found this channel as I have wanted to brew for over a decade but it never made it to the top of the list. It's on now though. I also enjoyed kickin it with you all in the Hoppy Hour. Keep doing your thing man!
SEE YOU TONIGHT! (GRAB A SIX PACK!) ua-cam.com/channels/PnbjrHhr3618ywTtRrzmWw.html
2 homemade brews and I am done. 22oz
I always shake my head when I see a $700 fermentor in a closet with no temp control 🤦♂️. The fermentation vessel is the last thing we should spend money on. There are 4 things that brought my beer to truly commercial quality. Temp control, yeast starters (or pitching multiple packs), pure oxygen with a diffusion stone, not just shaking the fermentor, and water chemistry. If those 4 elements are on point you will make commercial quality beer in a plastic bucket.
pretty sure i will have to live another 40 years to break even. Great way to build friendships!
10 gallon batches in a keggle was game changing for me. Since I’m going to go through the same process and cleaning anyway, getting another 5 gallons out of it is way more motivating.
R u doing BIAB in keggle ???
@@tman9338 BIAB in a half barrel keggle over a propane burner on a stand I built tall enough to gravity transfer into the corny kegs I use as fermentation vessels. I'm doing around 9.5 gallons of finished wort and for giant grain bills I'm limited to smaller brews. I don't like lifting more than 5 gallons so gravity transfers and pressure transfers always, and I don't have to clean a pump.
Rock on
@@RedGreen1 Great idea! I have extra Corny kegs - possible to send a pic of your setup showing fittings on Corney? Possilbe to send video or pic of your setup next time u brew??
Ain’t nothin wrong with a Home Depot bucket brew!!!
a lot of it all started back in the day with homer buckets! #neverforget
Buckets are not airtight tho, so you need to rack to secondary or duct tape the hell out of them.
That is the way I started .No problem except
storage with the valves on they do not stack.
@@ignoranceisstrenght1984 They do not need to be air tight.Beer makes
pressure not a vacuum. I never use an
air-lock no problems. Besides its homebrew
no worries.
@@bobbob-ze9zo hmmm, pressure during the high growth period. But not that much during maturation. Have you read How To Brew?
I’m a self confessed low budget brewer.
I use canned extract from Woolworths home brand, buy 20 kg (44lb) dry malt extract, dextrose by the 10 kg (22lb) filter own water, co2 purge kegs from harvesting fermentation co2, buy bulk hops and yeast past its use by date…
Yep… I’m cheap.. but the beer is better than the moronic swill from big Aussie breweries.
If you live in Canada you save money for sure. In the long run of course, because of the upfront cost. Also depending of course on what you're brewing. If its a simple Hefe using dry yeast or a big IPA with 10oz of hops and liquid yeast. Your return on investment will be a lot longer brewing those expensive beers.
That being said, people ask me that question all the time and I explain its a hobby so i don't look at it that way. But I tell them generally speaking I'm producing craft beer for at least half the cost of the liquor store and a 1/4 that of pubs. Most hobbies make you zero money and just cost you, so I think its great.
I am learning to brew and im doing 1 gal batches because I want to get as much experience brewing as possible.
Great vid. Spot on. Scaling up and buying bulk is where it’s at. Love your channel!
thx and cheers Dee!
Thanks, CH! Great info for newbies and seasoned brewers, alike.
gravity! > pumps lol, cheers GM
Super stoked to see what u come up with for 10G BIAB setup!!! Got most of the setup struggling with pulley/ladder setup so I can do it myself.
you'll be the first to know t man!
I’ve been brewing since 2014. Still pretty young in the hobby but have witnessed these trends. Found your channel and 1000% agree!
Cheers!
In golf we say there are no pictures on your scorecard. If you score well it speaks for itself. So if your beer tastes great who cares how expensive your equipment is!
I love that! #perception
Thanks for another good one! Another great Hoppy Hour tonight as well. Cheers!
Cheers James Marshall!
Preach braj! The right way is the way that gets YOU beer YOU love. I started BIAB in my 6gal crab boiler and fermenting in a plastic bucket. I upgraded to ssbrewbucket and kegging, will probably bite the bullet and go Anvil foundry for my bday, then my kit will be complete. Kegging is a gamechanger. 55lbs grain, 1lb hops, lhbs for specialty and yeast for the WIN. Solid advice here braj. Back to writing this weekend's porter recipe...
right on TD and lemme know how that porter turns out
Great information like always. Thanks
cheers frank!
Nice video man, I follow the steps for the seltzer , really help me a lot. 🤙
much love cheers, Gerson!
I love the "nice, but not necessary."
I have a friend that's a chemist that struggled with brewing as cheaply as possible so when I decided to get into brewing i listened to where he struggled and bought some upgraded stuff to start. I Bottled once and decided...bump that, went to kegging and that made my brewing much more pleasureable. Bottling is the absolute worst and I have heard so many people struggle with not the. Reading itself, but dealing with so many vessels to clean/sanitize.
right on Joseph. The guy who taught me how to brew always reiterated that.. "nice but not necessary"
I did some of this low budget stuff by accident. Started piecing things together over a few months before I started brewing. I'm curious if I crunch the numbers if I could've bought a all in one system with the money I've spent already. But oh well. BIAB been working for me for 3 brews now. Next purchase will be grain mill so I can do bulk grains.
The last time I home brewed was 2005... I'm looking to get back into brewing with a cheap, scalable system and, honestly, there's too much out there. Thanks for cutting through the noise, I'm looking forwards to doing some smooth batches of dunkel in the near future! Hope to see y'all up in vista sometime!
Cheers Braj!
Let's collab on a video of how to spend the most money possible on brewing!?
I think your lobster videos take the cake!
Buy a canning machine.
Always dropping that knowledge!
Yo! send me a switch request g: SW-0946-4492-7889
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE I'll be home Friday and I'll definitely add you g!
I remember that show as well Braj! Good times.
cheers braj!
Loving the straight forward advice on equipment. You’ve convinced me to buy a vacuum sealer. Haha! I’ve actually been meaning to find a more efficient ways to store hops. Any tips of buying fruit on a budget? Love your input! Cheers fellow homebrewer!
I'm not really a fruit guy, and when i am.. I just buy canned stuff off amazon #guilty
I buy it frozen on sale at grocery store or check out Costco, Sams or BJs
Beer is simple and cheap to brew, it is the brewer's role to make it as complicated and as expensive as possible.
Cheers, Dave!
Good advice braj. I gotta find a regional place for bulk hops in my area
Yakima Valley! yakimavalleyhops.com/collections/domestic-hop-pellets/products/amarillo-hop-pellets?variant=34608959815813
Very good advice, thanks CH. A buddy asked me which brewing system he should get, and I recommended BIAB to him.
It really depends on what you want:
- If you want ease of use and automation, get a grainfather or equivalent system.
- if you want more hands-on and old-school brewing method, get a 3 pot system.
- if you want the least fuss and the cheapest/simplest system, BIAB is great.
For sure. EVERY system has it's pros and cons, cheers!
Thanks for keeping it real Braj!
Much love Sedd!
Really solid advice...so if you're watching this and you wanna start brewing - DO IT! You don't need fancy equipment to make great beer...and it is a lot of fun. I do love CH's content - it's spot on. CHEERS BRAJ!
Thanks for the kind words braj!
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE For all you guys who might be looking to acquire a Vittle Vault - it's a pet food container with a gamma lid seal that keeps your grains safe, dry and no bugs...but they are expensive - take a look at Marshalls stores...they have these sometimes for CHEAP! BRAJ ON!
I've just had a look at my equipment tracker... sitting at about £1700 spent on equipment, never mind ingredients.
Have I made a lot of beer - yes
Have I had fun making lots of beer - yes
Have my friends, who thought I was mental for converting the garage into a microbrewery and taproom been proven wrong, because lockdown closed all the pubs for nearly a year - yes
Conclusion - totes worth it.
cheers MozZ!
Great video, and 100% on point, especially #5. You know what I bought after using my CF5 for a while? An anvil bucket, because it's easier to use. Also, way to shout out all the fellow brewtubers, cheers to that!
Oh for sure. I still havent even opened my anvil crucible. I looked at the design once and just stuck with the bucket 💯
Clawhammer eBIAB system is pretty sick. I've got the 20gal 240 volt and it does just about everything I need.
Estimated cost to wire for 240v ???
Nice tips!! Im gona put them to work! Saludos! 🤟😎🍻
Cheers Braj thx for always showing support!
Best savings on hops: grow your own (if possible, of course)
great video as always CH
much love braj!
Good tips. I don't mind using hop extract for bittering and saving pellets for flavor and aroma. A 5 mL syringe is about the equivalent as 4ish ounces of hops and a fraction of the cost.
i like it. I like it a lot cheers CB!
10:18 magnum....LOL.......always making me laugh man....always ....thanks
The night owl! Cheers Theron!
Shout out received! Too many good topics to comment here. I’ll save it for the Hoppy Hour chat. Stay chill Brajlord!
Heck yeah brian and ill be bugging you soon about ur setup ❤️ 🍻
😂😂😂😂😂😂 vacuum sealed magnums tho!
i time travel......and go back to 1970 and my favorite pub where a glass of draft is 30 cents and a pack of smokes about $1.25..time travel is great,other than that a six pack of colt 45 is awesome :]
😂😂😂
Brewing a small 10gal beer with no dry hop first and then a big 10gal beer second on the same yeast cake is my jam! Then toss it.
i love it!
Interesting that you come out with this as I'm currently moving off my 10Gal 2 vessel system to 1BBL 2 vessel system. Mostly because I want to brew less often so i have time to get thigs done . Brewing every other weekend is taking up too much time... Now i can brew about 8 times a year and have the same volume of beer. I was on the 10gal system for 7years.
cheers!
I've been doing some lagers for the summer and those beers are coming out really cheap! Less than $20 for 5 gallon batches. Keep brewing Braj! Check you on the Hoppy Hour....MBC!!!
that's where it's at RB!
I brew because I drink and I drink because I brew, it's a vicious cycle.
If you're looking for a BIAB check out the clawhammer. I have the ten gallon 120 and i love it. Martin from homebrew challenge uses the big one.
cheers Kody!
Have less beer drinking friends is my #1. At least ones that don't ever chip in / brew themselves! All great advice her!
Ha, that's great advice! "HOMEBREW IS NOT FREE" t shirts en route!
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE love it!
Unless they've got gains and can help lift the 10 gallon kettles.
That was all my friends, now I drink by myself
Absolutely!
With the beer prices in Finland it's very easy to save money brewing your own here!
duly noted FDK!
Shout out to Camp Onnawanna.
I did a first (saison) and third place (ipa) on a national, pro and amateur competition. Both in buckets. The first place was a split batch freak accident. My cellar is at 17C - I can increase with a heat pad where needed.
Still like the shiny stuff though. Lol
Solid info, cheers!
BRRRAAJJJ. So much math.. kryptonite.. lol good analsys of the cost cuts! 👍🍻
I got you an encore if you can sit thru 15 minutes of aimless bantar
If you live in a climate where you can grow hops, you can get a really good return on investment. Also buying used is good 2...i got a kegerator with a keg n. O2 tank for 300, some people buy the stuff and get bored
Cheers Eddy!
I wish I would have had this advice back in 2010. But I have lived and learned, and spent money on different things. I think as long as you keep at it and brew enough good beer, the cost of equipment is nothing in the long run. But it's a matter of buying the right shit to begin with
Solid feedback thx Salty!
Great advice watching from the Uk here keep it simple I brew my own beer so that I can have the beers me and my friends like you don’t have to have all the latest shiny all singing all dancing gear. You can make great beer with some pretty basic equipment keep it sanitised follow your recipes and you’ve cracked it cheers everybody.
Right on Johny!
Excellent advice but I do reuse yeast just because I like to have a few strains on hand. I love brewing but I do use a brewzilla 65l and it's awesome. No way I'd buy grain by the pound and hops by the ounce at the brew store anymore. I get a 55 lbs of rahr pilsner and pale malt for 46 bucks at my local store. I love my local shop but I gotta feed my kids and put gas in the old dodge truck that gets horrible gas mileage. Cheers man I appreciate your videos
Cheers!
Saving money by homebrewing? That's the kind of thing you tell the girlfriend after unboxing your new toys!
But I get your point. It does not have to be expensive. Great video and great tips, most of them I do.
I have the foundry 10.5 and a mash king cooler and I started to think about how I can scale up. Mash more, take 6.5g, batch sparge and collect a weaker wort.
Cheers Helicopter!
Bro I had the same shock when I did my first hazy. Problem was the home brew shop was only doing phone call orders and you pick up. Saw my 65 dollar receipt lol
lololol "do i get a discount"
One vessel to brew them all, one vessel to ferment them, one vessel to carb them and one vessel to crack them all, In the Land of Mordor where the Brajes lie...
see you tonight braj
Struggling with the last one. "Nice is not necessary." I still do Partial Mashes with extracts (The homebrew shop by me has bulk Pilsner extract for similar prices to gran. Like $1.50 per lb) because I don't have a ton of gear, and it works totally fine. I still want a nice Anvil Foundry. But is it necessary? Probably not. Kinda like you've said before, it's all about nailing down your system and making it work for you.
Correct! Cheers Spiegel!
What are your thoughts on brew in a bag vs mash tun gone depot cooler?
GREAT VIDEO
THANKS
Peace ✌
Glad you enjoyed it
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE I'm going to move up to 10 gallon BIAB.
I'm interested in the 10 gallon BIAB system you end up with. I'd love to have a 20 Gallon Spike Solo, but can't $$$wing it, so I want to build my own version of it.
Check out Clawhammer Supply. I love their 5 gallon system
@@AlexMoss002 Thanks for the tip. I've seen their stuff, and it looks great. But, their 20 gallon kettle, (10 gallon batch) system is $1800, which is similar to the Spike Solo.
In case anybody was wondering…. Yeah, I know, it’s the internet, nobody really cares… 😀 but… I bought a Blichmann Breweasy 10. It’s an awesome rig!
Scaling up ain’t in the wheelhouse for me. But the rest definitely! Don’t need that stainless steel fermenter, content with my kegland fermenters.
understood braj, and good seeing you in the discord
Enough about saving money. I wanna spend money, will you ever do Homebrew 4 Life pint glasses? Do that and ship them to me in Ireland please ✌️
I'm on it Emmett!
Gwan the Irish, up the hurling 🇮🇪
BRAJ!
THERE HE IS!
Right on man!!!!
MBC!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for the late reply, cheers TM!
I got my 10 gal biab from morebeer. It has 4 loops, seems pretty strong, and fits perfectly in my 10 gal keggle
Now that's exactly what i'm talking about!
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE we use a 2 pulley system to cut the weight in half. Hook it to a piece of rebar straddled on the last 2 rungs of a ladder. Work smarter, not harder!
I stole a 5 gallon paint stainer bag from work. Works great and it was free!
@@ArtilleryChannel you got a video of this setup??? Been looking for the best option with my current setup. I’m stoked !!!
@@tman9338 I don't, but it's a pretty simple setup. Make sure your burner is 16"x16" a 15 gallon keggle fits perfectly on it. I strap an 8 gallon kettle with water heated to 170 degrees high on the ladder steps and rinse off the grain slowly as the bag is hanging & draining. Make sure you give the bag a good squeeze & be careful it's hot!
Started buying hops by the pound now off Yakima Valley and Yakima Chief. Soooo much easier and cheaper prices then the homebrew store.
Any way to get around shipping costs???
Good man Stephen!
You know you're losing it when you're vacuum sealing condoms bro
Send help!
The biab method is what I do, if you still have your keggle there's a company that makes a biab for keggles. Morebeer.com also has some cheaper ones which fit keggles. I use 2 1 for grains, then one for pellet hops.
As for 6pk of good beer price where Im at its $10, but I hate paying that price for beer so I make my own.
Solid feedback kevin!
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE thanks, and here is a link to the brew bag Ive been using for about a year
www.brewinabag.com/
Link for keggle BIAB?????
@@tman9338 I posted it in a 2nd comment, which is just above yours. I'll post it again though
www.brewinabag.com/
'However you get there, is however you get there.' GD right bro
What up chris!
It’s Wednesday brajs! Get your beer ready for MBCs tonight! 🍻
that's right! see you soon Braj!
Guess im getting drunk tonight.
I have been propagating my own yeast for a few months now. I've been using imperial the most. What is your favorite brand of yeast to use? Thanks, Keep up the great work Braj's
I don't have a favorite brand, but omega wins for the branding, cheers!
@delreydavid that's what I meant by propagating. Just doing an over build on the cell count and keep the rest to make a starter again and keep overbuilding enough to keep it going. Although I only do it about 5-6 times from the original yeast packet.
I was told there would be no maths…. But this helps! Nice job sir
BIAB lager system en route braj!
BIAB 4 Life!! Also can’t wait for #splatchboysummer
😂😂😂😂 chet would be proud!
You can save a lot of money over building a yeast starter and reuse the yeast! I’ve made over 50 gallons for beer with one thing of yeast. Highly recommend
Ur more efficient than me NB!
What yeast strain did u use ??? Yeast harvest technique. ???
Little help with your steps to reuse yeast ???
@@tman9338 white labs 001 has been my go to for a lot of brews, along with Imperal yeast juice. ua-cam.com/video/-qv_HF-YDQQ/v-deo.html this video explains how to build your yeast up and save a little to use for your next batch.
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE maybe! I’ve seen you build yeast starter before. Save a 1/3 of it, and use it again for your next batch.
Your videos are great for someone looking at starting to home brew.
How'd you get Nicholas Cage to do your voiceover for your videos??
He's my dad
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE you sound just like him 😂
Maybe buying grain in bulk would save$ already have all the equipment I need temp control, kegs, pumps etc.
Yeah i buy all base malts in bulk, cheers!
Well you guys lucky . i buy extract beer cost 18$ and few other things like corn sugar for 40$ + 450$ for DHL shipping alone from USA to Saudi Arabia lol . so just 1 extract for 5 GL batch cost me more then 500$ . so is it worth it ? well if you live in a country not allowing alcohol then yes at least for me
Cheers!
1. SMASH - Single Malt And Single Hop.
2. An Anvil pump is like $50. It makes gravity a thing of the past. (Queue floating dog) Simplifies the day so much! I love mine. I had a cheap $18 solar pump but it kept getting clogged and hops debris ruined it. Wished I went to the expensive one first.
3. Splatches. Nice. I love split batches.
4. Dude. I wish I could find $40 55# bags of grain. :mindexplodes:
I love when the pumps work, but when they don't... say helllo #mothernature
Have you had any bad experiences buying hops that are discounted because they are old? I see Yakima Valley offering good deals on their 2020 crop.
i buy those all the time!
Are you doing 10 gallon batches in the Anvil 10.5? Or just doing 2 5 gallon batches on the same day?
It's impossible to go 10 gallons in the anvil
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE Nothing is impossible CH, NOTHING! Thanks Braj, keep up the good work, looking forward to the next cooking video!
@@tbland1469 Cheers brotha!
See if Clawhammer will give you the UA-camr discount on there 10gal system.
is it BIAB? lemme know
Yeah, you can see it in action on their channel or the homebrew challenge channel. Not cheap though.
Yes sir BIAB, your boy Brian at Short circuit has it.
Second Clawhammer. Emmet is awesome there.
I saw the video and nearly creamed my shorts. Been looking for a basket that will fit in my keggle and won’t break the bank. Got sharp edges on my keggle and afraid I’ll rip my bag.
$15 dollar six packs!? wow.
I keep saving my yeast but I've yet to reuse anything but one kveik. just keep throwing $8 at new omega strains.
that was my same exact problem braj. Then i'd second guess myself even using it after like a month or so
Funny... I went 3 generation with Omega Kviek then I got nervous. Same recipe and number 2 and 3 tasted better than #1.
Where do you purchase your hops from?
yakima valley and they do have great friday sales
Thank you for reminding people that humans have been brewing beer successfully for thousands of years, without stainless steel glycol yada yada.
Exactly cheers Mitch!
Saving $7 on yeast every time is still worth it to me. Just make a starter and pour some off for your next batch 👍. It’s too easy to not do it
Cheers braj!
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE cheers! Appreciate your videos 🤙
I would have to brew for the rest of my life to break even. I like to compare it to fishing- could a fisherman ever break even catching their own fish vs buying it at a seafood market? Some of those fisherman have an easy $50K in the boat alone. The fact is, fresh caught fish taste better because you caught it yourself and it's more fresh. Same idea with homebrew I would think!
I dig the analogy Justin!
Yall ever buy from hopsdirect?
Not yet, but good looking out!
4 cans of a decent micro beer here is $20
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Extract vs Grain -How much grain does it take to make 1 lb of extract.
I get extract at $2.50 a lb w/shipping. Is this a good price ?
I'm not too sure man.. I'm out of the extract game, but somebody will help you out on discord
Is it dry or liquid extract? Dry lasts waaaay longer. 5 to 9lbs a batch probably, so you have extract plus steeping grains and hops. So what...25-30$ a batch. Not terrible
@@bhhacker liquid extract and by
extending my yeast I come in about $20.00 a 5 gal batch.
I guess my real question is worth it to go all grain?
@@bobbob-ze9zo for me I still do both. I live up in Alaska though and it's harder to get fresh ingredients. A lot of people crap on extract but I've made awesome beers and in less time than all grain. With all grain you have more control over your beers I feel but either will produce awesome results as long as you are doing everything else right
@@bhhacker All grain is a lot bigger expense for equipment.Just trying to make the jump.
You may not want to answer this in a public forum like this but I will ask. How do you go about selling your brew without trouble from the man?
highly illegal braj #moonshining
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE Could you tell me where you get your brew bags? How many uses do you get out of one?
What’s the discord link? Says that one is no longer valid
Does this work? discord.gg/VYWSHauN
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE thanks 🤙🏽
Im a Braj who likes his glass. I sleep with my carboi.
Live your life Robert, cheers!
Sites to buy hops in bulk?
Yakima Valley and Amazon but amazon is scarce
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE yeah, Amazon doesn’t look so great for selection. Yakima valley looks great! Have you noticed differences with 2017, 2018/19,2020 batches? Think it’s better to buy 2020/2021 hops instead?
Where do u get your hops from?
Friends breweries by the pound and lhbs for 1-2 ounces for a lager or something
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE lucky u. I found some citra from yakima valley hops for 23 bucks and galaxy for 29 a pound. Best price ive found so far
Ill ask in the discord and let the homies answer
@@Rubio_Eric yakimavalleyhops.com/collections/domestic-hop-pellets/products/amarillo-hop-pellets?variant=34608959815813
Magnums?
Better sorry than safe!
Fuck the math. My daily beers are clewrly making their beer with cheaper ingredients. Im out. Ill just make my own. Already did the same with most of the food in the store, may as well make my own beer
Remember...you can brew a 5 gal hefeweizen for 25$, super easy, super delicious, works for any set up...enjoy
#neverforget, cheers!
I love this channel... A LOT. I really enjoyed this video except the blatant lack of MBC. Boooooooooo 4 days. Better luck next shoot. :D
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@@HOMEBREW4LIFE BTW: I only recently found this channel as I have wanted to brew for over a decade but it never made it to the top of the list. It's on now though. I also enjoyed kickin it with you all in the Hoppy Hour. Keep doing your thing man!