As a homebrewer, how much do you focus on water chemistry? And is there anything else you'd like to me explain in a future video that I may have missed?
It's a good video, but hardly any water chemistry videos talk about *when* to add the chemicals. To the strike water? To the mash? To the boil? When and why?
This was the most rocking homebrew video I've watched in a while. I love seeing when creators are having a good time while filming, you're an inspiration!
Look here mate. I’m from New Zealand and I’ve never even home brewed a single drop in my life. But I can run a water treatment plant and find this extremely interesting. On top of that I’ve subscribed because of content/music/beer/memes. This is the holy recipe for a channel to blow up and I’ve been part of many channels from the start that have blown up big time incorporating these elements so GOOD LUCK!!
Thank you ! These vids are hard to make, so they're few and far between. But I'd love to spend more time on them. The research, scripting, filming, editing, and sountracking just takes FOREVER LOL. But I appreciate the sub and the like and I'm glad I got the water chemistry video out for ya!
Great video, sub’d! Id love to see a video on the RO system build: price, parts, installation, can everything be bought off amazon or is it more niche products? Thx again 🍻
Whoa! Super flattered over here. Love your channel! And I have the entire RO build filmed in real time which I plan to release. I strapped a GoPro to my head and just built the whole damn thing while explaining it. So it’s like an hour thirty. Too long for this video, but I have it 👍🍻
you got the makings of a great channel there lad, keep it up. and i would live in that brewery it's class! keep pumping out the vids (and songs!). Slainte, all the way from Ireland :)
The level of creativity that comes out of you is absolutely unbelievable. I wish I had one tenth of your creativity and talent. Keep up the amazing work. CHEERS!
Bro....... I’m in! Best brewing channel entertainment wise out right now. What can we expect for release of videos?? I’ll post ya up in the brew groups if you’re going to be consistent!
Found your channel from a suggested so the RUclips formula works! Anyway I hope your channel grows and does well you are super entertaining and very thorough! I just built a full automated herms home brewing system with a touchscreen raspberry pi. I would love to learn more about water additions and suggestions as how you find or come up with these water additions. I will be checking out your website. Thanks!
I've watched a lot of brewing RUclips. I really like your channel. I hope you keep making videos, they are much better than most of the content out here right now
Excellent, great setup and thanks for sharing! I just got into water chemistry and started using Brewfather to calculate. Now, even more the reason to add the RO filter in my brew room. Thanks to Short Circuited Brewer for providing the link to this video!
@@BrewCabin One more question....how were you able to plumb the water line to the side of the pot filler (as opposed to behind the wall)? Are there pot fillers out there that allow for plumbing to the side or did you add something (like a T) and anchor to the wall? Any tips are appreciated as I am looking to do something similar. Thanks!!
@@shrumby7231 after much research and based on my needs for brewing (about 1 brew per month), I went in a different direction as I only needed enough water to brew 5-6 gallon batch per month or so. I ended up getting the Waterdrop D6 Reverse Osmosis system that was very easy to install on my stainless steel sink and provided me with the water I needed to brew. Less equipment and much more simplified.
More are coming! One at the end of May 2021. They take weeks to script, film, edit, and then soundtrack. All done by yours truly. And I have a day job that gets in the way LOL.
The production quality on your videos is incredible. Any chance you’ll do an overview of your SS Brewtech 3V system? I have the same system arriving today!
Possibly! I'm saving the channel for super produced stuff and avoiding product reviews. But I do have a video course where I brew an entire beer from start to finish on the system.
Ok I've been seriously confused about water chemistry but I'm a LOT less seriously confused now and I have a new song stuck in my head. REVERSE OSMOSIS HELL YEAH!!! 🤘🤘🤘
Where did you get that pot filler, I've been looking everywhere for one that the mater main comes in the side not the back so that I can do exactly what you did there.
Looking up water chem videos! Getting ready to make a neipa and want to get all I can right. Your set up is mighty impressive. I just recently got into all grain, and really started to pay attention to PH especially.
The video is GREAT!! RO water is the way to go. The brewery is very nice. The experiments performed in homebrewing have no connection with ale and lager because the instructions for producing homebrew are based on producing distillers beer. Alpha, glucose, and a single temperature infusion are only needed for producing distillers beer. The steps that are needed for producing ale and lager are skipped in homebrewing because the steps require a lot more work and time, costlier ingredients, and more equipment, than it takes to make homebrew. Conversion, dextrinization and gelatinization steps are skipped in homebrewing and when the steps are skipped ale and lager cannot be produced. The only purpose of Alpha is to release, glucose, which is a building block of life, from starch, and the enzyme works quite efficiently at 98.6F. Glucose is responsible for primary fermentation and ABV. The single temperature brewing method, chemically and enzymatically, cannot produce ale and lager, due to the way that enzymes work and chemical precipitation, making strike and target temperature not so useful for producing ale. The high temperatures used in homebrewing denatures the low temperature activated enzymes required for making ale and lager, Beta, in particular. The brewing method produces extract that is chemically imbalanced, sugar imbalanced and unstable, which produces beer with short, shelf life. Homebrew is artificially carbonated with sugar or CO2 injection and drank, green, boiler to belly in four to eight weeks, because the beer, rapidly, deteriorates during fermentation and conditioning. When conversion occurs, secondary fermentation takes place. Beta is the converter (140F), the enzyme converts simple sugar, glucose, that Alpha releases from amylose during liquefaction, into complex sugars, maltose and maltotriose, which are the types of sugar needed for making ale and lager. Yeast works differently on maltose than it does on glucose and it takes place during secondary fermentation. Beer doesn't need to be artificially carbonated with sugar or CO2 injection, due to maltotriose. When conversion occurs, beer tends to overly dry and thin during fermentation and conditioning. To counteract the negative impact, two steps are used in brewing ale and lager that cause dextrinization and gelatinization to occur. Dextrinization and gelatinization are responsible for body and mouthfeel in beer. The steps are skipped in homebrewing because of the time and work involved. There's a type of hard, heat resistant, complex, starch in malt that makes up the tips of malt, called amylopectin. Contained in amylopectin are A and B limit dextrin, which are tasteless, nonfermenting, types of sugar responsible for body and mouthfeel in beer, along with a type of albuminus protein that doesn't form at high temperature. The temperatures in homebrewing are too, low to burst the heat resistant, starch, where it enters into the mash liquid, before Alpha denatures and the richest starch is thrown away with the spent mash, unused and paid for. Mash is boiled to take advantage of the starch and when the boiling mash is added back into the main mash, Alpha, liquefies amylopectin and dextrinization and gelatinization occurs. Pectin is responsible for gelatinization, it's cellular glue that holds beer together through the long conditioning cycle that ale and lager go through. To produce high octane distillers beer soak malt at 150F because at the temperature Alpha releases the highest volume of glucose, as possible, from starch within a hour. The more glucose the more alcohol. The temperature is used in grain distillation. Test for starch at 30 minutes using Iodine. No starch, move on, nothing more will occur. Marris Otter, Halcyon and Golden Promise are good malts for producing distiller beer. They're high quality, distillers malts. There's a certain malthouse that produces Marris Otter with10 percent protein content, that's the malt to use. However, the malt is over modified and that's OK as long as corn and rice aren't used. Diastatic power is low in the malt. Some six row, malt would need to be added when corn and rice are used. To produce ale and lager an entirely different brewing method and under modified, low protein, malt are used. Under modified, malt is richer in enzyme content than high modified, malt and low protein, malt contains more sugar. Modification and protein content are listed on the malt spec sheet that comes with each bag of malt, which a brewer uses for determining the quality of malt, before it is purchased. Weyermann floor malt and Gladfield's American Malt are under modified and good choices for making ale and lager. To view a malt spec sheet click on Gladfield's website and find American Malt, the spec sheet is on the page. Part way down on the spec sheet, under the EBC column, is Kolbach. Kolbach , S/T and SNR are used for determining level of malt modification. I use data from the EBC when purchasing malt. Malt, 40 Kolbach and lower is under modified. Malt should contain less than 10 percent protein. The higher the Kolbach number and protein content, the less suitable the malt is for producing ale and lager. It's not a bad idea to become familiar with the acronyms and numbers listed on a malt spec sheet. A malt spec sheet is more important than a recipe. Recipes, are a given, anyway. To take advantage of under modified, malt, at the least, a three temperature step mash should be used, which produces pseudo ale and lager. To take full advantage advantage of the rich malt, a triple decoction is used, which produces authentic ale and lager. To soak more expensive, under modified, malt at one temperature is a waste of money because less expensive, high modified, malt will make the same beer, glucose is glucose. To produce cleaner extract skim off hot break as it forms and continue to remove hot break until it drastically, reduces, when that happens, add hops, skim off second break and boil for an hour. Less hops are needed and hop utilization increases because the extract is cleaner. About hops. The percentage of Beta should be listed on a hop container. When the percentage of Beta is missing the quality of hops cannot be determined. The Alpha and Beta numbers should be within a decimal point of each other. The closer the numbers are, the finer and more balanced the hops are. To learn how ale and lager are produced start out with DeClercks books. Abstracts from the IOB are free, online and interesting to read. In the 19th century the IOB made malt, modern when they invented the malt spec sheet. Also, the IOB standardized the tests that brewers performed on malt and moved the testing procedures into the malthouse. Since, time is time, why spend time on producing low quality, distillers beer, when the time can be spent on producing ale and lager? That way you'd be honest when telling a person that the bottle or keg contains ale or lager. STAY SAFE. STAY THIRSTY. STAY BREWING.
I like the R.O. system but I am looking at this thru a sanitary and maintenance issue. It is good now because its new but water with no treatment in a dark place in my head can create mold. Any thoughts on this or am I overthinking this. I know Brian from Short Circuited Brewing did this too so I know the systems are out there, just wondering about possible bacteria and or mold eventually. Loving the vids, keep brewing.
It's a good question. I think as long as it's used quickly and protected from the elements with the lid and air valve (which I added a tight mesh screen to keep bugs out), then I'm probably good. And I usually only fill it up the day I'm about to use it.
I've always brewed with RO water, but it wasn't nearly as 80s-tastic as it was for you. I generally add a flat 1TBS of gypsum salt and calcium chloride for a 5 gal brew. Thanks for showing there is a higher level of accuracy to be achieved on that front. I'll certainly check out brewfather.
Love both videos so far the only thing the first one had me missing was a whole wall around of everything done 😭 hopefully you got a future video coming soon for that!
Excellent video, music background and brew room setup! One question....how were you able to plumb the water line to the side of the pot filler (as opposed to behind the wall)? Are there pot fillers out there that allow for plumbing to the side or did you add something (like a T) and anchor to the wall? Any tips are appreciated as I am looking to do something similar. Thanks!!
Actually, according to the book Water: A Comprehensive guide for Brewers, there are references to Burton brewers practicing water chemistry as far back as 1878.
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As a homebrewer, how much do you focus on water chemistry? And is there anything else you'd like to me explain in a future video that I may have missed?
I only use chloride and gypsum and lactic
@@koplandavid Yea, that's all you need for most styles. I also keep Epsom and kosher salt in my brewery.
Great video, I'd really like to see a more detailed video of you putting the ro reservoir system together.
I filmed everything. So I’m thinking of releasing it sometime soon.
It's a good video, but hardly any water chemistry videos talk about *when* to add the chemicals. To the strike water? To the mash? To the boil? When and why?
I don’t know how I got here but I am intrigued and entertained
Haha! That’s what counts the most ;-)
Nice work brother!! Good overview o the brewfather water section. I love that software! 👍🍻
Thanks and same! Really appreciate it 🍻🤟
Best video for brewing ever!...WATER is everything for great brews. Newbie brewers watch and then re watch
Couldn't agree more!
This is some serious high quality homebrew content. Can't wait to see more!
Thank you for saying that! You've tapped into my main goal with this channel ;-)
Wow, that's a completely new level of production quality for a homebrewing video. Thanks a lot, I love your videos and your brewery!
Thank YOU! The plan is to continue this level of quality. Needed to set the stage with the first two videos.
@@BrewCabin can't wait to see more videos! My videos never were as sophisticated as yours, but I know how much time goes into a video! Cheers!
This was the most rocking homebrew video I've watched in a while. I love seeing when creators are having a good time while filming, you're an inspiration!
Wow, thanks!
Dang, I need more videos. Excellent start to the channel and super informative!
Thanks! More on the way 👍🍻
Look here mate. I’m from New Zealand and I’ve never even home brewed a single drop in my life. But I can run a water treatment plant and find this extremely interesting. On top of that I’ve subscribed because of content/music/beer/memes. This is the holy recipe for a channel to blow up and I’ve been part of many channels from the start that have blown up big time incorporating these elements so GOOD LUCK!!
Thank you ! These vids are hard to make, so they're few and far between. But I'd love to spend more time on them. The research, scripting, filming, editing, and sountracking just takes FOREVER LOL. But I appreciate the sub and the like and I'm glad I got the water chemistry video out for ya!
Great video, sub’d! Id love to see a video on the RO system build: price, parts, installation, can everything be bought off amazon or is it more niche products? Thx again 🍻
Whoa! Super flattered over here. Love your channel! And I have the entire RO build filmed in real time which I plan to release. I strapped a GoPro to my head and just built the whole damn thing while explaining it. So it’s like an hour thirty. Too long for this video, but I have it 👍🍻
@@BrewCabin Sounds good braj! looking forward to more of your content
I agree with HB4F. Video was good. I have a system in my house for my brewing and it makes things easier for sure. Keep doing your thing.
@@estabanflemons That's awesome! Thanks for the support and motivation 👍
Adding support for full RO build video!
This Is The Way.
Thank you. This Is The Way 🤘
Indeed it is! 😅 Feeling like a beginner all over - but great example to strive toward!
This is the RO Water video I had no idea I needed in my life. But now, I can't imagine my life without it.
Haha! Your life will never be the same ;-)
You the Man !! Finally a nice explanation on how to do water adjustments !! Thx Bro
Glad it was helpful!
you got the makings of a great channel there lad, keep it up.
and i would live in that brewery it's class! keep pumping out the vids (and songs!). Slainte, all the way from Ireland :)
Thanks, will do!
The level of creativity that comes out of you is absolutely unbelievable. I wish I had one tenth of your creativity and talent. Keep up the amazing work. CHEERS!
Wow! Thank you 👍🍻
Matt is like the Chuck Norris of creativity
I love the effort you're putting into these videos, the music skits are just the best!
I appreciate that!
Nice work!! Love the setup and your videos are crazy entertaining. Keep em coming.
Thanks! Will do!
One of the best brew channels I've seen. keep it up
Thanks and will do 🍻
The Owls Are Not What They Seem is a great name for a beer! I'm brewing a Black Lodge Stout next week!
Hell yea! Glad you got the reference. I'm doing a whole Twin Peaks series of beers soon.
Wow! Thanks so much for the shoutout! Happy to test your water for you!
Thanks again!
Bro....... I’m in! Best brewing channel entertainment wise out right now. What can we expect for release of videos?? I’ll post ya up in the brew groups if you’re going to be consistent!
Thanks! Right now it’s been every two months. But I’m trying to ramp it up in March. The goal is to be consistent.
Been brewing for a while. Excited to finally get into water chemistry! Thanks for the info, and great video as always.
Good luck!
Your video/production quality is on point!
Thanks!
Found your channel from a suggested so the RUclips formula works! Anyway I hope your channel grows and does well you are super entertaining and very thorough! I just built a full automated herms home brewing system with a touchscreen raspberry pi. I would love to learn more about water additions and suggestions as how you find or come up with these water additions. I will be checking out your website. Thanks!
Thank you so much!!
That rock and roll segment made me spit up my coffee! Awesome video dude. And you shred!
Awesome! Thank you!
This is gold! Keep the videos coming!
Will do!
Awesome 😁 that reverse osmosis song is a smash hit 🤘🏾 pity it's been released 40 years too late!
Just started home brewing a few weeks ago and love the video, super helpful. Looking forward to the first brew video
Coming soon!
Awesome video! Love the music bits! Keep it up
Thanks, will do!
I've watched a lot of brewing RUclips. I really like your channel. I hope you keep making videos, they are much better than most of the content out here right now
Same! I feel like a connoisseur of brewing videos on and off RUclips. So I appreciate it! And I’m working on a new video now :-)
I've never really gotten into the water chemistry side of things, but have been considering it lately. I will give Brewfather a gander, thanks.
You should! It's fun. And BrewFather is freaking awesome!
Thanks for this video! Water chemistry is something we want to get into but haven’t really had the know how!
You’re welcome!
best you tube video award in the soundtrack category goes to ... this video!
Hell yea!
Great content, will stay tuned!
Thanks!
Great Build ! And very entertaining video , Cheers 🤙🏼🍻
Thanks!
Very refreshing video. Seriously jealous of your setup/man cave. Also enjoyed your chat with James @Basic Brewing. Keep up the great videos.
Thanks! Glad you heard that. I was fanboying out on James. Seriously a dream come true.
Epic! 🤘
Thanks 🍻
Just throwing it out there that i subbed before he got to 3k subs. Subtle flex.
Love it 💪
After that rock break, i subscribed. Love this video
Heck yea!
Love your videos, thanks for posting this!
Glad you enjoy it!
Great video, looking forward for more!
More to come!
I'm in love! RO WATER!!!
Hell yea!
just "discovered" your channel. AMAZING!
Glad you enjoy it!
You're the highest budget/effort small RUclips channel I've ever seen. Amazing videos mate and I hope you won't stay a small channel much longer 👍
Appreciate it!
Thanks so much for your dedication to home brewing! As a novice, it’s fantastic to have a resource like you. Keep up the great content!
Hell yea and will do 👍🍻
Great videos 👌 .. now eagerly awaiting the rest!
Thanks! They’re coming soon. Working on one now. They take...a while lol
editing 10/10
Hell yea!
9.5 out of 10. Let's not let his ego get too big after only 2 videos :)
@@LocationRebel Haha!
Awesome and easy explained. Thx :)
You're welcome!
Your channel is amazing. HOPefully the next video will release sooner!
Thank you! And honestly, I want to publish more often. That's my goal in 2021!
great video! I'm looking to add this RO system to my home brewery. Are you still seeing good results on this unit? any future videos coming out?
Yes and yes
Excellent, great setup and thanks for sharing! I just got into water chemistry and started using Brewfather to calculate. Now, even more the reason to add the RO filter in my brew room. Thanks to Short Circuited Brewer for providing the link to this video!
Hell yea! Brian’s setup is perfect and the video was incredibly helpful.
@@BrewCabin One more question....how were you able to plumb the water line to the side of the pot filler (as opposed to behind the wall)? Are there pot fillers out there that allow for plumbing to the side or did you add something (like a T) and anchor to the wall? Any tips are appreciated as I am looking to do something similar. Thanks!!
@@ediemboyer Did you ever find an answer to this? I'm open for ideas on this as well.
@@shrumby7231 after much research and based on my needs for brewing (about 1 brew per month), I went in a different direction as I only needed enough water to brew 5-6 gallon batch per month or so. I ended up getting the Waterdrop D6 Reverse Osmosis system that was very easy to install on my stainless steel sink and provided me with the water I needed to brew. Less equipment and much more simplified.
I somehow arrived here. Was intrigued by the subject and subscribed for the song :)
Haha! Thanks 🍻👍
Awesome video!! Do you care about or make any adjustments to hit targets around sulfate:chloride ratio or residual alkalinity?
Yes! 100% I care about all of it and how accurate.
We need MORE videos from you!
More are coming! One at the end of May 2021. They take weeks to script, film, edit, and then soundtrack. All done by yours truly. And I have a day job that gets in the way LOL.
wow. I just discovered your channel. Its soo good man! Keep it up with the good work!
Awesome! How did you discover it?
Loved it mate great info and guitar skills....Cheers
Ha! Thank you 🎸
Came to increase my knowledge of water chemistry, stayed for the totally banging rock music🤘
Haha! Glad you found it and glad you stayed. Check out the other videos. They all have music ;-)
This was great! Super entertaining and educational!
Thanks 👍🍻
The production quality on your videos is incredible. Any chance you’ll do an overview of your SS Brewtech 3V system? I have the same system arriving today!
Possibly! I'm saving the channel for super produced stuff and avoiding product reviews. But I do have a video course where I brew an entire beer from start to finish on the system.
@@BrewCabin That’s more so what I’m looking for is just an overview of how youre using it, so that would be great!
So next level Matt -- love it.
Thanks!
Excellent thank you! Loved the rock scene!
Glad you enjoyed it
super creative! keep it coming
Thank you! Will do!
Ok I've been seriously confused about water chemistry but I'm a LOT less seriously confused now and I have a new song stuck in my head. REVERSE OSMOSIS HELL YEAH!!! 🤘🤘🤘
Btw you got a new subscriber ❤
Love it!
Great vid man!! i totally get it now, definitely using RO water since here in Mexico City there's no way to know what's in the water lol
Awesome to hear! And thank you 👍🍻
Great video mate! You’ve set the bar to a new high level keep em coming 💪🍻
Thanks and will do!
He's got two videos, and over 3k followers. He's doing it right.
I’m still a little shocked, but that was the plan for this channel all along. Didn’t expect it to do THAT well though 🍻👍
Great video, I really enjoyed it. I wander what percentage of homebrewers are also home-musicians? Looking forward to more brewin; and jammin' videos!
Good question! I bet quite a few. I know @donosborn is: ruclips.net/user/donosborn
Awesome content and I don’t even brew. Can’t wait for more!
That’s a stunning compliment! Thank you 👍
I really like the "out of the blue" musical moments :)
And I plan to include them in every future video ;-)
@@BrewCabin Might need a cut scene montage.
This channel is going to blow up...
Hope so! Working on my 3rd video right now ;-)
Outstanding video, very funny and informative. Subscribed
Awesome, thank you!
Where did you get that pot filler, I've been looking everywhere for one that the mater main comes in the side not the back so that I can do exactly what you did there.
*water main
I got it from Amazon believe it not. I got the exact same one @ShortCircuitedBrewers used in his video: ruclips.net/video/l4CkHV3Qqoo/видео.html
@@BrewCabin what's it called? Side feed or surface main? I found the regular one but not one that comes through the side
This will blow up!!!
I hope so!
The R O water song that came out of know where is killing me. You are F ing hilarious !
Haha! Thank you
Great content, keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
@@BrewCabin Have you thought about sharing any of those recipes on Brewfather? Always looking for new juice to brew.
@@hrwilliams I haven't thought about it. But now I will. Forgot that was even an option ;-)
RO water song got me. Subbed
Hell yea! How did you find the video?
Looking up water chem videos! Getting ready to make a neipa and want to get all I can right.
Your set up is mighty impressive. I just recently got into all grain, and really started to pay attention to PH especially.
Does Brewfather come with those beer style settings? Specially the pillow soft one...that would be awesome.
Actually, I made the pillowy NEIPA profile myself. Here are the specs:
Ca: 100
MG: 18
NA: 16
CL: 300
SO: 100
@@BrewCabin thank you for the info! Please keep up the great videos.
loved this content!
Glad to hear it ;-)
Do you have a flow restrictor added to waste water line to get the right amount of back pressure for the RO filter to work properly?
I do!
@@BrewCabin how did you work out what size flow restrictor to use? I have a 75GPD RO filter.
I just bought the only one available for the model I have. The company told me what to buy.
Amazing video!!!!
Thank you!!
When is the next video? It has been months! Never felt so entertained watching brew vids. Keep it up plz! ❤️ This is the way
Coming May 2021
Straight to the point: how much does water matter when brewing from the home brew kit? would the same profiles apply?
It matters a lot and yes, the same profiles apply.
@@BrewCabin I both gypsum that should sort the water for IPA-lpatin from our Emperors Brewery. 👌
Great content and hilarious!
Thank you! Glad you were entertained on what could be considered a very boring topic to some people ;-)
The video is GREAT!! RO water is the way to go. The brewery is very nice. The experiments performed in homebrewing have no connection with ale and lager because the instructions for producing homebrew are based on producing distillers beer. Alpha, glucose, and a single temperature infusion are only needed for producing distillers beer. The steps that are needed for producing ale and lager are skipped in homebrewing because the steps require a lot more work and time, costlier ingredients, and more equipment, than it takes to make homebrew. Conversion, dextrinization and gelatinization steps are skipped in homebrewing and when the steps are skipped ale and lager cannot be produced. The only purpose of Alpha is to release, glucose, which is a building block of life, from starch, and the enzyme works quite efficiently at 98.6F. Glucose is responsible for primary fermentation and ABV.
The single temperature brewing method, chemically and enzymatically, cannot produce ale and lager, due to the way that enzymes work and chemical precipitation, making strike and target temperature not so useful for producing ale. The high temperatures used in homebrewing denatures the low temperature activated enzymes required for making ale and lager, Beta, in particular. The brewing method produces extract that is chemically imbalanced, sugar imbalanced and unstable, which produces beer with short, shelf life. Homebrew is artificially carbonated with sugar or CO2 injection and drank, green, boiler to belly in four to eight weeks, because the beer, rapidly, deteriorates during fermentation and conditioning.
When conversion occurs, secondary fermentation takes place. Beta is the converter (140F), the enzyme converts simple sugar, glucose, that Alpha releases from amylose during liquefaction, into complex sugars, maltose and maltotriose, which are the types of sugar needed for making ale and lager. Yeast works differently on maltose than it does on glucose and it takes place during secondary fermentation. Beer doesn't need to be artificially carbonated with sugar or CO2 injection, due to maltotriose. When conversion occurs, beer tends to overly dry and thin during fermentation and conditioning. To counteract the negative impact, two steps are used in brewing ale and lager that cause dextrinization and gelatinization to occur. Dextrinization and gelatinization are responsible for body and mouthfeel in beer. The steps are skipped in homebrewing because of the time and work involved.
There's a type of hard, heat resistant, complex, starch in malt that makes up the tips of malt, called amylopectin. Contained in amylopectin are A and B limit dextrin, which are tasteless, nonfermenting, types of sugar responsible for body and mouthfeel in beer, along with a type of albuminus protein that doesn't form at high temperature. The temperatures in homebrewing are too, low to burst the heat resistant, starch, where it enters into the mash liquid, before Alpha denatures and the richest starch is thrown away with the spent mash, unused and paid for. Mash is boiled to take advantage of the starch and when the boiling mash is added back into the main mash, Alpha, liquefies amylopectin and dextrinization and gelatinization occurs. Pectin is responsible for gelatinization, it's cellular glue that holds beer together through the long conditioning cycle that ale and lager go through.
To produce high octane distillers beer soak malt at 150F because at the temperature Alpha releases the highest volume of glucose, as possible, from starch within a hour. The more glucose the more alcohol. The temperature is used in grain distillation. Test for starch at 30 minutes using Iodine. No starch, move on, nothing more will occur. Marris Otter, Halcyon and Golden Promise are good malts for producing distiller beer. They're high quality, distillers malts. There's a certain malthouse that produces Marris Otter with10 percent protein content, that's the malt to use. However, the malt is over modified and that's OK as long as corn and rice aren't used. Diastatic power is low in the malt. Some six row, malt would need to be added when corn and rice are used.
To produce ale and lager an entirely different brewing method and under modified, low protein, malt are used. Under modified, malt is richer in enzyme content than high modified, malt and low protein, malt contains more sugar. Modification and protein content are listed on the malt spec sheet that comes with each bag of malt, which a brewer uses for determining the quality of malt, before it is purchased. Weyermann floor malt and Gladfield's American Malt are under modified and good choices for making ale and lager. To view a malt spec sheet click on Gladfield's website and find American Malt, the spec sheet is on the page. Part way down on the spec sheet, under the EBC column, is Kolbach. Kolbach , S/T and SNR are used for determining level of malt modification. I use data from the EBC when purchasing malt. Malt, 40 Kolbach and lower is under modified. Malt should contain less than 10 percent protein. The higher the Kolbach number and protein content, the less suitable the malt is for producing ale and lager. It's not a bad idea to become familiar with the acronyms and numbers listed on a malt spec sheet. A malt spec sheet is more important than a recipe. Recipes, are a given, anyway.
To take advantage of under modified, malt, at the least, a three temperature step mash should be used, which produces pseudo ale and lager. To take full advantage advantage of the rich malt, a triple decoction is used, which produces authentic ale and lager. To soak more expensive, under modified, malt at one temperature is a waste of money because less expensive, high modified, malt will make the same beer, glucose is glucose.
To produce cleaner extract skim off hot break as it forms and continue to remove hot break until it drastically, reduces, when that happens, add hops, skim off second break and boil for an hour. Less hops are needed and hop utilization increases because the extract is cleaner. About hops. The percentage of Beta should be listed on a hop container. When the percentage of Beta is missing the quality of hops cannot be determined. The Alpha and Beta numbers should be within a decimal point of each other. The closer the numbers are, the finer and more balanced the hops are.
To learn how ale and lager are produced start out with DeClercks books. Abstracts from the IOB are free, online and interesting to read. In the 19th century the IOB made malt, modern when they invented the malt spec sheet. Also, the IOB standardized the tests that brewers performed on malt and moved the testing procedures into the malthouse. Since, time is time, why spend time on producing low quality, distillers beer, when the time can be spent on producing ale and lager? That way you'd be honest when telling a person that the bottle or keg contains ale or lager.
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cant wait for your next video....
Working on it now!
I like the R.O. system but I am looking at this thru a sanitary and maintenance issue. It is good now because its new but water with no treatment in a dark place in my head can create mold. Any thoughts on this or am I overthinking this. I know Brian from Short Circuited Brewing did this too so I know the systems are out there, just wondering about possible bacteria and or mold eventually. Loving the vids, keep brewing.
It's a good question. I think as long as it's used quickly and protected from the elements with the lid and air valve (which I added a tight mesh screen to keep bugs out), then I'm probably good. And I usually only fill it up the day I'm about to use it.
I've always brewed with RO water, but it wasn't nearly as 80s-tastic as it was for you. I generally add a flat 1TBS of gypsum salt and calcium chloride for a 5 gal brew. Thanks for showing there is a higher level of accuracy to be achieved on that front. I'll certainly check out brewfather.
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Cant wait first brew. like the songs in betwen......🍻🔝👍
That's the next video. Song included.
Just curious. Can you use the waste water to rinse and clean other equipment? Might be a easy way like that to make use of that water....
Haven’t tried it yet. My assumption is it would leave a lot of mineral deposits.
Great content, would love to do something similar myself
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This channel is going to grow so fast
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Love both videos so far the only thing the first one had me missing was a whole wall around of everything done 😭 hopefully you got a future video coming soon for that!
Oh for sure! Tour coming soon 👍
Excellent video, music background and brew room setup! One question....how were you able to plumb the water line to the side of the pot filler (as opposed to behind the wall)? Are there pot fillers out there that allow for plumbing to the side or did you add something (like a T) and anchor to the wall? Any tips are appreciated as I am looking to do something similar. Thanks!!
Yea you can do it with any pot filler too. The plumber just used a 90 degree tee fitting right on the wall.
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Very entertaining and informative! 😂🎉😊
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What are the specs of the pump you are using for the RO system?
They are both Blichmann Riptide pumps set up on this system: byo.com/project/build-a-better-homebrew-pump/
Oh sorry, you meant the RO system. I followed everything from this video by @shortcircuitedbrewers: ruclips.net/video/l4CkHV3Qqoo/видео.html
Just like they use to make beer olden days😄👍
Actually, according to the book Water: A Comprehensive guide for Brewers, there are references to Burton brewers practicing water chemistry as far back as 1878.
You are genius! 👍🏻😁
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Where did you get the bucket for the reservoir water? Sounds dumb but I've looked all over for a food grade bucket that size.
I got it on Amazon from this video description: ruclips.net/video/l4CkHV3Qqoo/видео.html
Loving the 90's skater video aesthetic.
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