Thanks for watching Everyone! This is a bit of a long video - but the process is pretty easy. The recipe is in the description box, and there are more brewing videos on our BrewHouse Channel: ruclips.net/channel/UC9RYWYB80xvstGUkkahaUuw
Glen & Friends Cooking, Brilliant stuff. You mentioned this in your last video and I was looking through your back catalogue thinking it was a video I missed. Might spend some quarantine time getting a brew going
Using a liquid malt extract (even a pre-hopped one) would have seemed to be a much easier approach. Also, if you're trying to really strip things down to bare bones, a clean stock pot with a lid can double as a fermenter, no airlock necessary; the positive flow of CO2 out will easily escape and prevent O2 & bacteria from effecting the fermentation (kinda like an actual brewery). Cheers!
Glen, may I submit my disinfecting go-to's for your consideration sir? I'm addressing the sanitation portion at around 3 minutes. Not to take away from commercial product, but you can do it with some homegamer and common products you might already have. 1) A 5:1 dilution of 5% corn vinegar, to 1 part 3% peroxide. It is essentially what hospitals use (Peracetic Acid), and it's not complicated. It will rust steel in a heartbeat (it's a metalsmiths trick for patina), but will clean like the dickens just about everywhere. Use your own sense and take your own precautions, if you do something dumb (to the readers of this), I have indemnity. 2) Less common would be Ionized (electrolysis) Silver. I use it everywhere, I disinfect my mouth daily with it, and in a sprayer it helps wounds and burns heal. Though I have less experience with copper, it could be used in a pinch for the same reasons (anti-baddy properties). Both are made by electrolysis (anode/cathode) in distilled water. Google it, the info is there. I have yet to have a spoiled batch of ferment, from wine, to sourdough, to kombucha, et al.
@FRUNTCASTER - The stuff we used is standard in the brewing industry, and adds no flavour. I'm sure what you do works for you, but I was trying to keep the complexity and amount of stuff people need to buy to a minimum. I also assume (right or wrong) that many of my viewers are looking for simple tried and true recipes and methods that are easy to obtain.
@@GlenAndFriendsCooking -- I'm a huge Star San fan, I was simply saying these other methods work without SS on hand, at least from my own experiences. You are certainly the expert, I meant no offense, your video is great.
Glen, you have quickly become my favorite foodtuber, the way you film, build a story around it, all the amazing kit you have, the rigor and open mindedness, top tier sir. Keep it up.
He's very calm and straightforward, which I like. I like both Barry Lewis and SortedFood but sometimes they are just too much for me to deal with that day (especially Barry lewis, IDK why?) I enjoy them both, but I do like watching Glen as well :)
I've been home-brewing for 32 years - still keeping paper notes. Thanks for making a simple beer and showing it's so easy to get started, most folks I help are stressed out about everything they have to get right, and I just pull them back to the simple steps as you have. That message needs repeating.
Hello Sir, I have a question. If I use malt extract instead of barley grains, then the process will be to boil the extract with water. Add hops. Let it cool. Then add yeast. Is that all?
I've watched a fair number of first time homebrew videos, I believe that this is by far the best. Clear, concise, and not hung up on every little thing.
It was a lovely introduction to basic brewing, the importance of sanitation. Many, many years ago I started brewing with nothing but a coffee pot and a 12 litre cooking pot. It is absolutely exactly as you described 'You either love the process or you don't, but you'll never save money by doing it yourself.' On the other side though, you can do wild combinations of flavours you have never seen before and absolutely adore. One of my favourites is a ginger-green apple beer. Thank you for your time in showing the process and please have a champion day.
This was an EXCELLENT video! I brewed my first beer back in the 1980's, the book I used had an ongoing statement throughout...Relax, Don't worry, have a home brew! I eventually grew my brewing knowledge to a point where my garage looked more like a laboratory than a place for cars but you know what? Everyone needs a place to start and this was just about the best "first" all grain video I have ever seen! Great job on this!
I bought my brother one of those *Make Your Own Beer* kits from Amazon, one year for Christmas. Now he is into wine making. He is getting good at it too.
@@GrizzAxxemann only it it's legal in said country... Home distilling is sadly not legal a lot of places, like Norway for example where I am from. Would have loved to get into making brandy of different typed
Been making kits for a while now, simply because I thought the "true brewing process" was too overwhelming. You explained this really well. I'll be trying on my next go of it. Thanks!
So many home brewers make it sound like a monumental and costly task. Beer is simple. If they could make it (in some form) thousands of years ago, then you can certainly make it in your kitchen.
Great vid Glen! A trick I picked up from Bearded and Bored is to use a 20oz soda bottle as a carbonation indicator to pair with the grolsch bottles. Once the plastic soda bottle is firm, you know the others should also be at similar pressure and it's time to chill. He was making cider I believe, but it works on brewed sodas that I make as well.
Hey Glen, this video is exactly what my husband and I are looking for right now. Thanks for taking the time to go through the process of making just one gallon of beer!
We spent a year in a condo while the house was under construction. That got me into small batch BIAB. One trick I used was putting the whole pot in the oven during the mash process. The temp stays very consistent. For me this was also an easy transition from extract to all grain brewing. Since the grain bill was smaller it eased the fear of failure a bit.
Excellent video clip. I enjoy making beer (when I do) and you ticked all the boxes. Well done. Squozen or squozed !! Love it. I also like that Jules is right there with you when you need some help. My first helper was my 8 yo son who LOVED bottling. I'd mow the grass, he'd be smiling while bringing me a beer, I'd have a couple nice drinks ... and have to ask him to put it in the kitchen ... where I never saw it again. lol
I appreciate the simplicity that you've put into this.....which is exactly what I was looking for. Over 15 years ago I was part of a 2000 litres a week brewing operation for a rugby club in Saudi Arabia....our beer was clled the Best beer in all of Saudi....and not just by us but also by the players from all the rugby teams visiting from throughout the kingdom. Anyhow, for beer flavour we didn't use malt & barley.....we used "near" beer, zero percent alcohol beer that was a similar price to soda.....we brewed in 200 litre (44 gallon) containers.......8 cases of light (coloued) near beer, 4 cases of dark, 80 litres of water, 10 kg of sugar.....brewed for around 4 days, bottled (2lt pepsi bottles) for 6 weeks, transferred to kegs, chilled and served......beautiful......we would also not disturb the few bottom inches when bottling and would use the same yeast for the next two brews......tipping out and cleaning after three brews and adding new yeast to the new batch. Cheers
This brought back a lot of fond memories of brewing beer in the garage with Dad and my brother in an old crock with a light and flour-sack towel for the cover. The best beers were the ones where he left out the hops; they were the smoothest. The most exciting was the batch that we bottled a little green, some of the bottles exploded. We had beer running down the driveway and into the street.
I started with a Mr. Beer. Then I realized I could go from 2 gallons to 5 at the same cost if I bought extra equipment. Since good microbrewery beer costs between $5 and $6 US per glass at a brewery or restaurant, you can make beer just as good for much less per glass. It helps if you have friends to help drink it so you can make your next batch.
Another great video, Glen! These have been a great distraction lately. Honestly, your channel deserves more subs with all the informative content you have! I've learned so much from your videos.
To be honest, I'm here just to comment that my comment won't be nasty at all. I have watched all sort of videos, some are too expensive in terms of equipment needed, some are too cheap, this one was JUST for me id say. Thanks a lot for the patience and uploading the whole uptill the tasting video. Really appreciate it.
Thanks for an excellent video. It has to be just about the best instruction on making beer on you tube. I love the fact that you enjoy it so much and don’t take it all too seriously I am about to do my sixth brew and wish that I had seen this before I did my first one. I have learned so much from my own mistakes which would all have been avoided had I watched your video beforehand. You have explained lots of stuff that other presenters assume that the viewer understands. For example mash out and the result of squeezing the grains after the mash. Thank you once again
I'm a huge fan of this channel, and I didn't know do you had a brewing channel too. I'm getting in to brewing and I found this. It's amazing. Greetings from Venezuela
I've been interested in getting into making beer, but i have been intimidated by the process .The way you explained everything made it seem easy as long as you are accurate in the steps of the process . I loved watching the video . Thanks !
Hey, this was an excellent explanation of the basics of beer and doing your first gallon at home. I've been reading about distilling a lot lately, and of course that got me wondering about beer making at home. Now I know!! Thanks for going back to the roots of your beer brewing journey for all of us who know very little about it but are interested. Great video!!
Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been wanting to home brew for a number of years and even took a class once. I’ve been thinking about your video for a couple of weeks now. So, I bit the bullet and ordered a 1 gallon kit online and can’t wait to get started.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am on my 4th brew in a 1 gallon kit, but have struggled to find videos showing this exact size. For some of us in tiny apartments it's impossible to scale up in size due to space, but I am still enjoying making small batches of different styles.
awesome vid. going to buy a home brew 1 gallon batch kit just like this and i saw it was only written instructions . this will be an awesome reference. Thanks very much
I've started out with LME and DME I've never tried to mash out my malt before... Don't know why just thought it was more involved than what you demonstrated. Thanks for shedding the light on the process. My go to beer and one that I have been brewing is a single hop IPA, and I use "gold" LME and extra light DME to get OG 1.058 with a final around 1.010 and a IBU of 115. I'm glad that you listed Northern Brewer, I too live in Minnesota, and I use them all the time! Great store, thank you!
I've been homebrewing for 3 years and becoming a better brewer with extract. I found out by filtering my water has produced outstanding beer. I recently did a key lime blonde ale that was a way better version of bud light lime.
Looks like fun. Now I'm really interested in making beer! At times my wife actually talks me into doing yoga with her. Every time I have, one of the dogs hops on my back or stomach (they're small) so I totally can relate. Thanks again for another wonderful video.
Great intro, best yet seen and thank you. Very informative and detailed. I live up near mountains with springs that run all year round so avoiding that tap water, that seemed like quite a downer! Looking forward to my first brew, thanks again!!
I followed your recipe. It took 5 weeks from brew day to taste. 2 weeks fermentation, 2 weeks carbonation, 1 week refrigerator. Taste was delicious, balanced, I put 5 grams sugar to 500 mL bottle.
After watching your tour video, I love and extra-appreciate the nuances in this video. I love your sink basin area that looks straight out of a restaurant supply store. I love the labeling system as well with smart use of containers and shelves. I aspire to this level of household organization. I just need another 20 years or so of collecting money :)
Loving all the recipes you put out, gives me a lot of inspiration and love how you show almost every one is open to your own interpretation. Hope you keep growing in popularity, see you at 500k!
As someone who is familiar with wine and mead but new to beer this was a pretty straightforward process. I loved this video cause it was all in one. So many people try to make videos in separate stages just to put out more content but I hate waiting! Haha. Thanks for the video I loved it and i will try to make this recipe myself
The only thing I'd think you might have missed is what type of Munich malt you used as the lightest ones are the most fermentable. And using one of those jiggler type bottle fillers can help I love the idea of a 1 gallon batch so test beers are easy without a ton of outlay should it not be a keeper. Very nice video for novice and experienced brewers too.
Water in Perth, Western Australia is full of calcium/lime. Perfect for ales not so good for lagers. Thankfully most home brew kits her by Coopers are based on ale yeasts and our climate is generally warm so again suited for making ales. I do like a good German Wheat beer though and tend to do those in the cooler months were I can get a steady 18C temperature.
I stumbled on to your channel a couple of weeks ago and I am glad I did. If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have watched this one on making your first gallon of beer! I have been interested in making my own beer for years and years but have never committed. Your video has been the push to get me started! Toward the end of the video you talked about the haters, who cares about what they have to say. They probably hate everything that doesn’t fit in their narrow scope of what they think of as right. To them I say... “If the beer that I make soon comes out anywhere near what you made, I’ll be happy and hooked.” Thank you for a great and informative video!
Great stuff Glen! I love that you point out the "contrversies". There is no "right way". The only add I'd make to your essentials list is the airlock, they are so cheap and easy. Also if you have a growler already, bottle to that and put the remainder in a plastic soda bottle. You are carbonated when the soda bottle is hard, put both in the fridge and start drinking when cold. Happy brewing!
Btw, I am team squozen, I brew mostly 1 gallon batches (4 in flight right now). I like small batches because I can get more variety in the flavors instead of having to pound through 5 gal to the next one. If I want to do a big brewday, I can mash a multi gallon base, then split the boil and use different hops or adjuncts in my 1 gal carboys....
@@bigfatbaataed Ha! Most of my friends don't drink, my wife is more of a white wine person, and I have young kids in the house. I'm a one beer after the kids go to bed kind of guy, so a gallon at a time is what works for me. If your lifestyle requires that much hooch on hand then by all means brew on!
If you are the only one drinking, and doing 16oz per night, a single 5gal batch is 40 nights if the same flavor. Split it into 1 gal carboys and vary the recipe with different yeasts, hops and adjuncts and it's 5 flavors rotating for 40 nights for not much more effort. It's also easy to rotate in a cider, or a mead, or a perry, or whatever! If you do two mashes one very light and the other very dark, you can mix to get a pale, an amber, a stout and anything in between on the same brew day....
nice one Glen for showing how simple a mash can be made at home you are lucky to have a chefs set out others like me tools lawnmowers in the shed i like to roast /fry the grain or some of it before a mash for a slightly darker grain more body and taste 2 always put the yeast in a warm glass of water covered with glad wrap as yeast like a warm bath too cold can put it into shock before fermentation and paint strainers bags are great for straining with Johnsons baby bottle wash sanatiser is great too use found anywhere in supermarkets apart from starsan
@neville douglas Yeast thermal shock is one of those brewing myths that just won't die... Here's Walker from Imperial yeast putting that one to bed: ruclips.net/video/-tkGAX5XSS0/видео.html You can pitch right from the fridge - no problem. I've never had a problem, with several award winning beers and a few co-brews with local craft breweries.
Hi Glen, great video. A GTA Canadian living in Austria. They sell 'Drub' beer as a style of beer. Its normally cloudy but quite favourful. A seasonal shorter shelf life type beer.
ah reminded me of making mead. surprisingly loved my first batch. got a second gallon waiting in the cabinet. a nice tip to consider for everyone whos starting to brew and dont want to buy a gallon jug is to buy those 1 gallon purified water from your grocery store. theyre all clean so just use that as your base container. all you need to buy is the airlock with a rubber stopper that fits the gallon and pump for transfer. of course keeping in mind to sanitize those as well
Well that was fun! I've never been that interested in brewing my own beer. We are surrounded by some fantastic small breweries in my town. That being said this looks like a lot of fun. I tend to not do very well with processes that take a while. So the wait two weeks part might make me mental! But I might give it a try! I would also love to distill my own whisky also a timely process. The aging process would kill me! 😁
Great info. I started 10 years ago and with Corny Kegs only. And yes once you make it you start buying all kinds of gadgets like you have! I always did 5 gallon batches with plastic buckets and have boiled the entire batch (big pot!). Finally after going AG and doing batch sparge with a cooler I could customize everything. Total truth about Star-San. Dont fear the foam!
Ha! My cat likes to jump on my back too. Thanks for the video. I’ve been interesting in giving home brewing a try. Might end up ordering some supplies this weekend and give this a shot.
I've made a few home brew batches in a classic entry 20L plastic fermenter. I decided to go small scale until my skill and recipes are more dialed rather than have 20L of beer i'm not completely happy with! Last weekend I literally just brewed a 1 gallon batch in the same glass carboy with the SF05, thoroughly enjoyed watching you talk back through the process from an entry level point of view, great content. Especially loved the ninja cat...
Hey Glen, another great video. I've done some basic fermenting/home brewing in the past and this video guide is a great resource for getting back into it. With "getting back into it" in mind, I'm wondering if you'd have any interest in creating a different type of guide.. Something like a "pro-am" level video. If I want to get back into brewing without buying all the level 1 gear, then upgrading each piece as I outgrow it, what should I buy to just end up with a slick home-brewing setup like yours without having to personally experience the hurdles and mistakes you may have overcome already. For example, more detail on your keg setup instead of bottles, etc. I know it won't have the same level of appeal as a video like this one, but I know there's gotta be others who just want to buy once and buy right!
Glad I found your dedicated brew channel look forward to binging your content :) I am jealous of your digital refractometer, after looking at prices I am floored it's going between 300-500 USD
Hey, if you want to make sure that your funnel and teaspoons are sanitized, could you use some everclear or maybe cheap vodka to quickly rub them? Small alcohol pads, used for cut sterilization also come into mind... It will evaporate away quickly anyway... No?
Awesome. I only ever tried brewing once before along time ago in five gallons. I still have all the equipment but haven’t gone back since it was a bit much. Scaling down to one seems more reasonable.
Hey, thanks for the video, it’s given me the confidence to stick with brewing my own (I’ve just started, first batch Of my own concoction, on the go 2 days in). I was apprehensive, due to the snootiness of the majority of the online resources I came across, while trying to simplify the process, so I didn’t have to shell out large amounts of money to get my toes wet. I think a lot of these places that have information are so, because they are also selling the equipment, so they go into way more depth, covering many more parts of the process, and making it sound prohibitively complicated, in order to sell more of their inventory. If they aren’t stores, they’re sponsored by companies with equipment that they use, so therefore try push them as much as they can, but not telling you what you need to know just to get going. So thanks again for keeping the unnecessary stuff out and making a video that truly seems to be a great place to start as a reference point, which people like me can just dive in with the confidence to fumble it and not end up in tears because I blew 100’s of dollars on stuff I didn’t necessarily need.
Thanks for watching Everyone! This is a bit of a long video - but the process is pretty easy. The recipe is in the description box, and there are more brewing videos on our BrewHouse Channel: ruclips.net/channel/UC9RYWYB80xvstGUkkahaUuw
Glen & Friends Cooking, Brilliant stuff. You mentioned this in your last video and I was looking through your back catalogue thinking it was a video I missed. Might spend some quarantine time getting a brew going
Using a liquid malt extract (even a pre-hopped one) would have seemed to be a much easier approach. Also, if you're trying to really strip things down to bare bones, a clean stock pot with a lid can double as a fermenter, no airlock necessary; the positive flow of CO2 out will easily escape and prevent O2 & bacteria from effecting the fermentation (kinda like an actual brewery). Cheers!
Glen, may I submit my disinfecting go-to's for your consideration sir? I'm addressing the sanitation portion at around 3 minutes.
Not to take away from commercial product, but you can do it with some homegamer and common products you might already have.
1) A 5:1 dilution of 5% corn vinegar, to 1 part 3% peroxide. It is essentially what hospitals use (Peracetic Acid), and it's not complicated. It will rust steel in a heartbeat (it's a metalsmiths trick for patina), but will clean like the dickens just about everywhere. Use your own sense and take your own precautions, if you do something dumb (to the readers of this), I have indemnity.
2) Less common would be Ionized (electrolysis) Silver. I use it everywhere, I disinfect my mouth daily with it, and in a sprayer it helps wounds and burns heal. Though I have less experience with copper, it could be used in a pinch for the same reasons (anti-baddy properties). Both are made by electrolysis (anode/cathode) in distilled water. Google it, the info is there.
I have yet to have a spoiled batch of ferment, from wine, to sourdough, to kombucha, et al.
@FRUNTCASTER - The stuff we used is standard in the brewing industry, and adds no flavour. I'm sure what you do works for you, but I was trying to keep the complexity and amount of stuff people need to buy to a minimum. I also assume (right or wrong) that many of my viewers are looking for simple tried and true recipes and methods that are easy to obtain.
@@GlenAndFriendsCooking -- I'm a huge Star San fan, I was simply saying these other methods work without SS on hand, at least from my own experiences.
You are certainly the expert, I meant no offense, your video is great.
As a chef, I’m super envious of you having your own commercial sink in your basement. Super useful!
It really is a beautiful sink.
Glen, you have quickly become my favorite foodtuber, the way you film, build a story around it, all the amazing kit you have, the rigor and open mindedness, top tier sir. Keep it up.
AGREED.
He's very calm and straightforward, which I like.
I like both Barry Lewis and SortedFood but sometimes they are just too much for me to deal with that day (especially Barry lewis, IDK why?) I enjoy them both, but I do like watching Glen as well :)
I agree, Glen and Ethan Chlebowski would be a nice pair in while both love accurate measurements for food preparation.
'Squozen'.
You're one of my top 3 favourite YTers.
That sink is a thing of absolute glory.
I don't even drink beer, but click because of the cat, and just curiosity on the process. Nice simple video for those wanting to try it out!
Hopefully the cat didn't disappoint!
Same
And he didn’t disappoint!
Same not a big lover of beer love the cat just showing up near the end
Same same
That cat got me too
I've been home-brewing for 32 years - still keeping paper notes. Thanks for making a simple beer and showing it's so easy to get started, most folks I help are stressed out about everything they have to get right, and I just pull them back to the simple steps as you have. That message needs repeating.
Hello Sir, I have a question. If I use malt extract instead of barley grains, then the process will be to boil the extract with water. Add hops. Let it cool. Then add yeast. Is that all?
I would love to know one of your old recipes, your note book is probably a little time capsule in contemporary homebrew history
Old Swiss proverb: ask ten brewers, get eleven opinions.
Hands down the best no-bullshit brewing tutorial I have ever seen and possibly out there. Well done.
This is hands-down the best intro to brewing video I've seen on RUclips. Thanks!
I've watched a fair number of first time homebrew videos, I believe that this is by far the best. Clear, concise, and not hung up on every little thing.
I appreciate how you guys encourage first timers to keep it simple
It was a lovely introduction to basic brewing, the importance of sanitation. Many, many years ago I started brewing with nothing but a coffee pot and a 12 litre cooking pot. It is absolutely exactly as you described 'You either love the process or you don't, but you'll never save money by doing it yourself.' On the other side though, you can do wild combinations of flavours you have never seen before and absolutely adore. One of my favourites is a ginger-green apple beer. Thank you for your time in showing the process and please have a champion day.
That combination sounds delicious.
This was an EXCELLENT video! I brewed my first beer back in the 1980's, the book I used had an ongoing statement throughout...Relax, Don't worry, have a home brew! I eventually grew my brewing knowledge to a point where my garage looked more like a laboratory than a place for cars but you know what? Everyone needs a place to start and this was just about the best "first" all grain video I have ever seen! Great job on this!
I bought my brother one of those *Make Your Own Beer* kits from Amazon, one year for Christmas. Now he is into wine making. He is getting good at it too.
Next step... whiskey?
@@GrizzAxxemann only it it's legal in said country... Home distilling is sadly not legal a lot of places, like Norway for example where I am from. Would have loved to get into making brandy of different typed
@@doc8125 Just do it. I do in the UK. Just do the research and make sure its safe.
Been making kits for a while now, simply because I thought the "true brewing process" was too overwhelming. You explained this really well. I'll be trying on my next go of it. Thanks!
So many home brewers make it sound like a monumental and costly task. Beer is simple. If they could make it (in some form) thousands of years ago, then you can certainly make it in your kitchen.
Great vid Glen! A trick I picked up from Bearded and Bored is to use a 20oz soda bottle as a carbonation indicator to pair with the grolsch bottles. Once the plastic soda bottle is firm, you know the others should also be at similar pressure and it's time to chill. He was making cider I believe, but it works on brewed sodas that I make as well.
Still the best beginner brewing video I've ever seen.
Hey Glen, this video is exactly what my husband and I are looking for right now. Thanks for taking the time to go through the process of making just one gallon of beer!
We spent a year in a condo while the house was under construction. That got me into small batch BIAB. One trick I used was putting the whole pot in the oven during the mash process. The temp stays very consistent. For me this was also an easy transition from extract to all grain brewing. Since the grain bill was smaller it eased the fear of failure a bit.
The oven is a great idea! So glad you mentioned that.
Excellent video clip. I enjoy making beer (when I do) and you ticked all the boxes. Well done.
Squozen or squozed !! Love it.
I also like that Jules is right there with you when you need some help. My first helper was my 8 yo son who LOVED bottling. I'd mow the grass, he'd be smiling while bringing me a beer, I'd have a couple nice drinks ... and have to ask him to put it in the kitchen ... where I never saw it again. lol
FUNNY
I appreciate the simplicity that you've put into this.....which is exactly what I was looking for.
Over 15 years ago I was part of a 2000 litres a week brewing operation for a rugby club in Saudi Arabia....our beer was clled the Best beer in all of Saudi....and not just by us but also by the players from all the rugby teams visiting from throughout the kingdom.
Anyhow, for beer flavour we didn't use malt & barley.....we used "near" beer, zero percent alcohol beer that was a similar price to soda.....we brewed in 200 litre (44 gallon) containers.......8 cases of light (coloued) near beer, 4 cases of dark, 80 litres of water, 10 kg of sugar.....brewed for around 4 days, bottled (2lt pepsi bottles) for 6 weeks, transferred to kegs, chilled and served......beautiful......we would also not disturb the few bottom inches when bottling and would use the same yeast for the next two brews......tipping out and cleaning after three brews and adding new yeast to the new batch.
Cheers
This brought back a lot of fond memories of brewing beer in the garage with Dad and my brother in an old crock with a light and flour-sack towel for the cover. The best beers were the ones where he left out the hops; they were the smoothest. The most exciting was the batch that we bottled a little green, some of the bottles exploded. We had beer running down the driveway and into the street.
Transitions so smooth butter can only dream
First time viewer of your channel. That way of brewing is the ol'school way, 19. century, KISS.
I like it.
You've convinced me. I'm stuck working from home anyway. But I don't have any of those things or a local brew shop, so I've ordered a homebrew kit.
haven't watched yet but had to say LOVE the thumbnail with Chicken standing on Jules' back. LoL
Yes my fav!
The brew channel needs more love! Would love to see some regular content coming over there again, been binging through them lately.
Beginner brewer here. Love your content. Really helped me on my first couple brews. Thanks guys!
Kitchen studio? Basement brewery ? what next? pantry tennis court?
Producing pasta in the attic
You should see their meth lab in the RV
Don’t forget the backyard wood fired pizza oven, and the shawarma (sp) rotisserie!
Frank B dont forget the prosciutto storage
LOL yes - perhaps he has a backyard full of grilling equipment
I started with a Mr. Beer. Then I realized I could go from 2 gallons to 5 at the same cost if I bought extra equipment. Since good microbrewery beer costs between $5 and $6 US per glass at a brewery or restaurant, you can make beer just as good for much less per glass. It helps if you have friends to help drink it so you can make your next batch.
Best food channel on RUclips! I learn so much from these videos. Thanks again Glen and Julie.
I have no clue how I found your channel Glen but I’ve watched every single video. Kudos from western Canada.
Another great video, Glen! These have been a great distraction lately. Honestly, your channel deserves more subs with all the informative content you have! I've learned so much from your videos.
To be honest, I'm here just to comment that my comment won't be nasty at all. I have watched all sort of videos, some are too expensive in terms of equipment needed, some are too cheap, this one was JUST for me id say. Thanks a lot for the patience and uploading the whole uptill the tasting video. Really appreciate it.
Thanks for an excellent video. It has to be just about the best instruction on making beer on you tube. I love the fact that you enjoy it so much and don’t take it all too seriously
I am about to do my sixth brew and wish that I had seen this before I did my first one. I have learned so much from my own mistakes which would all have been avoided had I watched your video beforehand.
You have explained lots of stuff that other presenters assume that the viewer understands. For example mash out and the result of squeezing the grains after the mash.
Thank you once again
I'm a huge fan of this channel, and I didn't know do you had a brewing channel too. I'm getting in to brewing and I found this. It's amazing. Greetings from Venezuela
Best first time brew vid I've seen, thanks Glen!
He mentioned this in the taco soup cupboard recipe and I couldn't find it. It wasn't live yet 😆
as a lapsed home brewer, I was hunting for it too! This makes me want to take some time and jump back into it :)
Well, with all the quarantining going on...you just may have the time
Excellent beginner beer brewing video!
I came for the beer, stayed because of the cat! heheheheh Your infrastructure for cooking and video is impressive, I'm jealous hahahahah
One of my favorite cooking videos. This got me into homebrewing.
I've been interested in getting into making beer, but i have been intimidated by the process .The way you explained everything made it seem easy as long as you are accurate in the steps of the process . I loved watching the video . Thanks !
I came across because of the beer (I just brewed my very 1st ale) I stayed because of the food...Great channel with nice ambiance. Cheers from France
I am going to make this beer and name it Glen's, and will drink it with some country ham and biscuits.
Excellent video. Thanks.
Hey, this was an excellent explanation of the basics of beer and doing your first gallon at home. I've been reading about distilling a lot lately, and of course that got me wondering about beer making at home. Now I know!! Thanks for going back to the roots of your beer brewing journey for all of us who know very little about it but are interested. Great video!!
Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been wanting to home brew for a number of years and even took a class once. I’ve been thinking about your video for a couple of weeks now. So, I bit the bullet and ordered a 1 gallon kit online and can’t wait to get started.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am on my 4th brew in a 1 gallon kit, but have struggled to find videos showing this exact size. For some of us in tiny apartments it's impossible to scale up in size due to space, but I am still enjoying making small batches of different styles.
I appreciate your hobby and your channel. Thank you for what you do.
awesome vid. going to buy a home brew 1 gallon batch kit just like this and i saw it was only written instructions . this will be an awesome reference. Thanks very much
I've started out with LME and DME I've never tried to mash out my malt before... Don't know why just thought it was more involved than what you demonstrated. Thanks for shedding the light on the process. My go to beer and one that I have been brewing is a single hop IPA, and I use "gold" LME and extra light DME to get OG 1.058 with a final around 1.010 and a IBU of 115. I'm glad that you listed Northern Brewer, I too live in Minnesota, and I use them all the time! Great store, thank you!
Thank You for nice informative video ! Cheers from Lithuania!
We need a basement tour of your brewery lab. Way too cool. I love the set up
I've been homebrewing for 3 years and becoming a better brewer with extract. I found out by filtering my water has produced outstanding beer. I recently did a key lime blonde ale that was a way better version of bud light lime.
Love brewing small batches! Post more 1 gallon recipes....
Nice video
It don't matter if other people say "you are doing i wrong".. Because, if you like it.. u did it right.
wish i could try it with you.
Love these longer videos! Especially when it is such a fascinating topic
You friends are awesome!
Looks like fun. Now I'm really interested in making beer! At times my wife actually talks me into doing yoga with her. Every time I have, one of the dogs hops on my back or stomach (they're small) so I totally can relate. Thanks again for another wonderful video.
Almost the season for fresh hops...hope to see you visit some hop fields in the future!
Great intro, best yet seen and thank you. Very informative and detailed. I live up near mountains with springs that run all year round so avoiding that tap water, that seemed like quite a downer! Looking forward to my first brew, thanks again!!
I followed your recipe. It took 5 weeks from brew day to taste. 2 weeks fermentation, 2 weeks carbonation, 1 week refrigerator. Taste was delicious, balanced, I put 5 grams sugar to 500 mL bottle.
After watching your tour video, I love and extra-appreciate the nuances in this video. I love your sink basin area that looks straight out of a restaurant supply store. I love the labeling system as well with smart use of containers and shelves. I aspire to this level of household organization. I just need another 20 years or so of collecting money :)
Wow! Such a great education! Thanks
Thanks!
I just realized I must have a crush on Glen because I don't drink beer and I really enjoying this video.
This has been very helpful and exactly what i needed for my first brew. Love this kinda content! MORE!
Loving all the recipes you put out, gives me a lot of inspiration and love how you show almost every one is open to your own interpretation.
Hope you keep growing in popularity, see you at 500k!
Made it, tasted it, and it's a winner! Ended up at 3.2% ABV, not very hoppy, but very nice. It's a keeper.
As someone who is familiar with wine and mead but new to beer this was a pretty straightforward process. I loved this video cause it was all in one. So many people try to make videos in separate stages just to put out more content but I hate waiting! Haha. Thanks for the video I loved it and i will try to make this recipe myself
Glen's world famous Squozen Bag Beer 🍻
Can you do a video on your basement brew setup? Discussing may ypur sink setup for cleaning, the brew équipement you use, your vent and such?
The only thing I'd think you might have missed is what type of Munich malt you used as the lightest ones are the most fermentable. And using one of those jiggler type bottle fillers can help
I love the idea of a 1 gallon batch so test beers are easy without a ton of outlay should it not be a keeper.
Very nice video for novice and experienced brewers too.
Water in Perth, Western Australia is full of calcium/lime. Perfect for ales not so good for lagers. Thankfully most home brew kits her by Coopers are based on ale yeasts and our climate is generally warm so again suited for making ales. I do like a good German Wheat beer though and tend to do those in the cooler months were I can get a steady 18C temperature.
I stumbled on to your channel a couple of weeks ago and I am glad I did. If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have watched this one on making your first gallon of beer! I have been interested in making my own beer for years and years but have never committed. Your video has been the push to get me started! Toward the end of the video you talked about the haters, who cares about what they have to say. They probably hate everything that doesn’t fit in their narrow scope of what they think of as right. To them I say... “If the beer that I make soon comes out anywhere near what you made, I’ll be happy and hooked.” Thank you for a great and informative video!
Great stuff Glen! I love that you point out the "contrversies". There is no "right way". The only add I'd make to your essentials list is the airlock, they are so cheap and easy. Also if you have a growler already, bottle to that and put the remainder in a plastic soda bottle. You are carbonated when the soda bottle is hard, put both in the fridge and start drinking when cold. Happy brewing!
Btw, I am team squozen, I brew mostly 1 gallon batches (4 in flight right now). I like small batches because I can get more variety in the flavors instead of having to pound through 5 gal to the next one. If I want to do a big brewday, I can mash a multi gallon base, then split the boil and use different hops or adjuncts in my 1 gal carboys....
@@dexterne ---> Make some friends, large batch problem disappears...
@@bigfatbaataed Ha! Most of my friends don't drink, my wife is more of a white wine person, and I have young kids in the house. I'm a one beer after the kids go to bed kind of guy, so a gallon at a time is what works for me. If your lifestyle requires that much hooch on hand then by all means brew on!
If you are the only one drinking, and doing 16oz per night, a single 5gal batch is 40 nights if the same flavor. Split it into 1 gal carboys and vary the recipe with different yeasts, hops and adjuncts and it's 5 flavors rotating for 40 nights for not much more effort. It's also easy to rotate in a cider, or a mead, or a perry, or whatever! If you do two mashes one very light and the other very dark, you can mix to get a pale, an amber, a stout and anything in between on the same brew day....
nice one Glen for showing how simple a mash can be made at home you are lucky to have a chefs set out others like me tools lawnmowers in the shed i like to roast /fry the grain or some of it before a mash for a slightly darker grain more body and taste 2 always put the yeast in a warm glass of water covered with glad wrap as yeast like a warm bath too cold can put it into shock before fermentation and paint strainers bags are great for straining with Johnsons baby bottle wash sanatiser is great too use found anywhere in supermarkets apart from starsan
@neville douglas Yeast thermal shock is one of those brewing myths that just won't die... Here's Walker from Imperial yeast putting that one to bed: ruclips.net/video/-tkGAX5XSS0/видео.html You can pitch right from the fridge - no problem. I've never had a problem, with several award winning beers and a few co-brews with local craft breweries.
Great video (as all of your videos are). Thank you
Hi Glen, great video. A GTA Canadian living in Austria. They sell 'Drub' beer as a style of beer. Its normally cloudy but quite favourful. A seasonal shorter shelf life type beer.
Job well done you two! This will be critical information for folks isolating at home for the next little while.
ah reminded me of making mead. surprisingly loved my first batch. got a second gallon waiting in the cabinet. a nice tip to consider for everyone whos starting to brew and dont want to buy a gallon jug is to buy those 1 gallon purified water from your grocery store. theyre all clean so just use that as your base container. all you need to buy is the airlock with a rubber stopper that fits the gallon and pump for transfer. of course keeping in mind to sanitize those as well
Well that was fun! I've never been that interested in brewing my own beer. We are surrounded by some fantastic small breweries in my town. That being said this looks like a lot of fun. I tend to not do very well with processes that take a while. So the wait two weeks part might make me mental! But I might give it a try! I would also love to distill my own whisky also a timely process. The aging process would kill me! 😁
Hey Glen, let me know when you start up Squozen Bag Brewery. I'll buy a shirt!
Great info. I started 10 years ago and with Corny Kegs only. And yes once you make it you start buying all kinds of gadgets like you have! I always did 5 gallon batches with plastic buckets and have boiled the entire batch (big pot!). Finally after going AG and doing batch sparge with a cooler I could customize everything. Total truth about Star-San. Dont fear the foam!
Ha! My cat likes to jump on my back too. Thanks for the video. I’ve been interesting in giving home brewing a try. Might end up ordering some supplies this weekend and give this a shot.
Amazing simple. Thanks
I've brewed some wine and mead at home but I gotta say.. I might have to try to brew a batch of beer next. Thanks and stay safe you two!
lol at Jules snickering at the end when Glen nerds out and grabs the notebook to pull out the numbers!
Great video, from crushing the grain to draining the bottle. Well explained and simple to follow.
I found this by chance. Very nicely made video. Your enthusiasm shows!
I've made a few home brew batches in a classic entry 20L plastic fermenter. I decided to go small scale until my skill and recipes are more dialed rather than have 20L of beer i'm not completely happy with! Last weekend I literally just brewed a 1 gallon batch in the same glass carboy with the SF05, thoroughly enjoyed watching you talk back through the process from an entry level point of view, great content. Especially loved the ninja cat...
This was fantastic, really simplifies the process. I think I might give this a try!
Very cool guys, more people should get into homebrewing.
There's so many good things to learn👍
Hey Glen, another great video. I've done some basic fermenting/home brewing in the past and this video guide is a great resource for getting back into it.
With "getting back into it" in mind, I'm wondering if you'd have any interest in creating a different type of guide.. Something like a "pro-am" level video. If I want to get back into brewing without buying all the level 1 gear, then upgrading each piece as I outgrow it, what should I buy to just end up with a slick home-brewing setup like yours without having to personally experience the hurdles and mistakes you may have overcome already.
For example, more detail on your keg setup instead of bottles, etc.
I know it won't have the same level of appeal as a video like this one, but I know there's gotta be others who just want to buy once and buy right!
I love that I found your channel! You have some really great projects I want to try out. Keep it up sir!
Glad I found your dedicated brew channel look forward to binging your content :) I am jealous of your digital refractometer, after looking at prices I am floored it's going between 300-500 USD
Hey, if you want to make sure that your funnel and teaspoons are sanitized, could you use some everclear or maybe cheap vodka to quickly rub them? Small alcohol pads, used for cut sterilization also come into mind... It will evaporate away quickly anyway... No?
Impressive simple beginner instruction. Thank you
Awesome. I only ever tried brewing once before along time ago in five gallons. I still have all the equipment but haven’t gone back since it was a bit much. Scaling down to one seems more reasonable.
Hey, thanks for the video, it’s given me the confidence to stick with brewing my own (I’ve just started, first batch Of my own concoction, on the go 2 days in).
I was apprehensive, due to the snootiness of the majority of the online resources I came across, while trying to simplify the process, so I didn’t have to shell out large amounts of money to get my toes wet. I think a lot of these places that have information are so, because they are also selling the equipment, so they go into way more depth, covering many more parts of the process, and making it sound prohibitively complicated, in order to sell more of their inventory. If they aren’t stores, they’re sponsored by companies with equipment that they use, so therefore try push them as much as they can, but not telling you what you need to know just to get going.
So thanks again for keeping the unnecessary stuff out and making a video that truly seems to be a great place to start as a reference point, which people like me can just dive in with the confidence to fumble it and not end up in tears because I blew 100’s of dollars on stuff I didn’t necessarily need.
Nice work! I agree with a healthy portion of your brewing process. Thanks for sharing.