I like that Craig made a big deal of brewing an all grain as it imparts sanctity to the process, which it deserves. Not to be punitive towards his extract efforts in the slightest, I've just hardly gone all grain myself, but I like that he sticks up for extract, it does give one the experience necessary to handle the logistics of all grain better, and it does make the whole thing seem more interesting and important. Good job Craig, I thank you for all your beers, and this one's great, do more!
Hi Craig I started home brewing since the beer strikes in the late 70's. I just found your site this morning. Looks great. You still have a lot more fun brewing. I mainly use the temperature-control method, where the temperature is raised inchromentaly. It takes a lot of stirring but I love the magic that happens when the starch turns to sugar and the gets watery and changes colour. Its only 7 in the morning and you've made me thristy for a home brew. Keep up the good work.
Nice Video Craig. Alittle tip when your Mashing in: In you get any grain clumps put on a pair of long thick rubber gloves and get in their and kneed your mash. I used to pour my grain in slow, stir, pour, stir. Now I just put all my grain in at once and mix it with my gloved hands. It works well and saves time. Cheers!
Thanks Craig! I've been kicking the idea around to get into all grain. You pushed me over the edge. I'm praising you, and my wife is cussing you. Lol. Seriously, thanks for the great videos!
Got stuck on the covid quarantine. Got a brew day planned tomorrow for a Timothy Taylor Landlord clone and a Kolsch kit I ordered the other day that should be here tomorrow or Saturday. Rewatching your old vids because I absolutely love them and am glad you are back on the air. Keep on brewing and can't wait to see your next video. Cheers!
Nice job Craig, you got me into brewing nearly two years ago with the report on the Coopers brewing kit, I progressed quickly to partial grain then to all grain. I actually picked up a good pointer in this video. That was dropping your chiller in while still boiling insuring you completely sanitize the chiller. I have been dropping mine in after flame out and immediately start chilling, maybe not enough time at high temp to kill off what ever nasties are on the chiller.
A few tips from another AG brewer (with the same cooler mash tun!) 1) You can add the grains all at once, then stir, as HokieHomeBrew said 2) Heat the strike water about 5-10 degrees higher than your desired strike temp to allow the cooler to absorb some heat 3) I batch sparge, and while my efficiency has varied each batch, the beer has still been great every time 4) Can't say for sure, but I thought I remember Jamil saying it's best to not make a starter with dry yeast Cheers, Craig!
Congratulations on your first AG Craig. If I hadn't know, I would have thought you had brewed many AG batches before making this video. You made it look as easy as brewing a partial extract kit. Cheers, 17!
Congrats on your first all grain buddy! Don't worry about the few "rough spots" that you had, you'll get them worked out as you get a feel for your equipment. Also, it takes balls to record your first brew day. Cheers!
Hi Craig. I've watched a few of your videos but one I saw recently you were saying some people had been giving bad or negative comments about your videos. I bet none of them has ever made a video or even a decent pint! Ignore them...I love your style and 'naturalness'. Keep it up yore doing a grand job.
Craig we love the way you make something potentially complicated easy, thankyou for your clarity, simple approach and instructional vids, keep up the good work.
I did the same thing on my first use of a mash tun. Then after a while, I just dumped the whole thing in at once! This was a great video Craig, especially because you covered a couple of the real challenges that first time all grain brewers go through, specifically temperatures. Very exciting to finally see Craig do All Grain!
I love all your videos, nice to see your take on ag brewing. I also am jealous of the whole leaf cascade hops. Keep on making videos man, we all enjoy them
Well, once again, Craig, you've taken the mystery right out of homebrewing. I've been pretty set against an all-grain brew because of the setup and extra equipment involved. But you just did it on a kitchen stove. Thanks. I'll let you explain to my wife why I had to suddenly go buy a whole bunch more s**t! Great video. Thumbs up.
Looking back at this,the one that gave me the nerve to go partial mash,I'm on my 2nd today. Crush wasn't fine enough for biab,so OG suffered a couple points compared to last time. But this one is my own recipe. Ajm American/English pm pale ale with NZ hops throughout. I've got a pound of them if you'd like a couple ounces to play with. My treat to you for helping me from the start in Jan 2011. God bless.
Great video, and awesome to see you're starting to do some all grain brewing! I've been brewing for about 13 years myself, all grain for most of that time...and lately I've been doing some extract brews again cause time is a bit short...But I will still do all grain when I can, after you get a few batches under your belt, you'll be hooked! And if you get malt in bulk, it can be significantly cheaper than extract brewing. I also brew on the kitchen stove, boiling in two pots...Works!
I'm glad this one FINALLY came up in a search for AG brews. I've been hoping to find a few of yours Craig. Thanks for showing us how its done. This one closed the gap for my wife and with the use of a translater (she speaks mostly Russian) she now understands what I'm trying to accomplish here in Ukraine where beer is not HBed since its cheaper than coffee. Vodka and wine are HBed but not beer. Wish us luck, I'm getting ready to start malting my first batch of barley.
First time out the gate and he does a double decoction American IPA, just like getting in the pool, why go slow? Jump right on in ! That beer will surely be your finest to date Mr. Well done.
I would be careful with only doing a 15 minute boil with all grain (referring to the second pot without hop additions). A full 60 minute is usually recommended to release DMS from the wort.
next time don't worry about the clumps and put the grain in a lot faster, i think you spent too much time worrying about that and lost a bunch of heat. glad to finally see this vid, craig!! very exciting! great production as always!
Craig, I have been watching you for a while. I am happy to see you are into to all grain brewing now. I think you will do great. Looking forward to more videos.
Awesome video Craig!! I just stared home brewing after procrastinating doing it for years.. I've read a few books about it...and they pretty much just confused me.. Your vids have cleared up ALOT of the steps and how to questions I've had!!! Thanks alot Buddy!! -Brian-
Hi Craig. Thanks for your inpiration I've set my very first coopers dark ale. Here in Norway beers under 4.5% that 's allowed in the grosery store is very expensive. ( beer over 4,5% and spirits are sold in special goverment controlled stores and are so expensive that nobody really buys it. Thanks again for lots of useful information and inspiration. Cheers Jan
awesome video, i agree with another comment adding strike water and grains a little faster and you'll hit you target mash temp. my mash tun is the same as yours except that on the bottom of my mash tun lid I put a drip coil with a barbed connection that comes through the top of mash tun and connects to a five gallon hot liqueur tank makes for easy sparging. well that's my two cents. love Home Brew Wednesday, and most of all the bloopers. Cheers Greg...
nice one craig , looking forward to your taste test - i might try split my next all-grain boil like you done as my pot is huge and slow to get up to temperature, great idea for stove top brewing.
Another fabulous video Craig! I know this ones been a LONG time coming, but you execute it beautifully. I love the bloopers and your humble nature. Just awesome. I always enjoy watching your process and listening to your commentary. You've definately be an inspiration to me and look forward to more. CheersNBeers to you! 17
Awesome Craig, have you thought about putting your fermenters in a water bath of some sort for the primary fermentation to help keep temps down, you can freeze old water bottles, etc, and just change them out, to help aid in this, I save old windshield washer solvent jugs and freeze. Good luck and Cheers
That's a great job for a first time all grain. You might wanna try to minimize splashing and aerating of the hot wort, as hot wort easily binds oxygen to the sugars, rather than just the water. Those compounds often survive the boil only to reemit out of solution into the beer at some point of lagering, resulting in oxidation or "cardboard flavour". I would recommend Palmers book "How to Brew", on this, which ranges from introductory to advanced, in a super comprehensible, even page-turning way.
Great video Craig. Love the all grain intro.. I just got back into brewing after a year or two off... I was introduced via Mr. Beer and soon after went right at all grain!!! I am slowly working myself back into the homebrew game with a few extract kits but and excited to get mashing again!!!
Congrats on the first all grain batch! I hope to get around to doing my first AG batch in the near future. I'll be doing a stovetop split boil as well, so good to see that it worked out ok for you. Cheers, Aidan in NZ
Great video Craig! You were one of the reasons I started homebrewing. Love your videos, they are very helpful. Great to see you doing AG batches now. I started doing them recently too and agree are alot of fun!
It prevented the grain bed from being disturbed. The grain bed forms a natural filter. When you first run off the wort ("liquor" technically), it has husks in it. When he recirculated it, the grain bed settled and formed that natural filter.
Hi Craig, after watching your kit videos, you got me started, and I say a big Thanks. However they all turned out very dissapointing. I'm going to go straight to the all grain brews. This has got to be the only way to go, if you drink beer regularly. I guess the kits gave me an idea of how beers made, and procedures on the importance of cleaning, but thats about it. It's just got to be all grain from now on.
Good Job on the raising temperature by taking some mash out and boiling. Sounds a lot like the method of decoction mashing that they have used in Germany for hundreds of years. They hover don't just take mash liquid but they take grains to boil and put back in the kettle to raise the mash to the next temurature in step mashing instead of heating the whole mash tun.
great vid craig, you got me into the brewing scene. I'm brewing back to back to stock up and you're to thank! keep up the great instructional vids brutha!
Just a tip, aim a little high for your strike water. I always lose about 5 degrees pouring my strike water into my room temp cooler. It's a lot easier to stir out some of the heat than to add back boiling water
Great video. I'm just starting out all grain brewing myself. About that yeast starter malarchy, your yeast starter to me as exactly the same as a liquid yeast except if you bu the liquid one somebody allready made it for you. (Wyeast activator). Since your yeast is only one strain making a starter could not do anything bad to it. If it was a multi strain one they might comepets and not turn out the same every time just like the weeds in the garden are different every year.
hi craig love watch your vids so helpfull .was watch at point from 11.02 to 11.18 seen a fly flyin around by u .dont know if you seen it lol.just made vid on how to .fix your fob key in a pc mouse .for funny .hope you will have look see what u think .as you say got heat wave were u are.here in uk rain rain no summer this year .best wish john
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I like that Craig made a big deal of brewing an all grain as it imparts sanctity to the process, which it deserves. Not to be punitive towards his extract efforts in the slightest, I've just hardly gone all grain myself, but I like that he sticks up for extract, it does give one the experience necessary to handle the logistics of all grain better, and it does make the whole thing seem more interesting and important. Good job Craig, I thank you for all your beers, and this one's great, do more!
Hi Craig I started home brewing since the beer strikes in the late 70's. I just found your site this morning. Looks great. You still have a lot more fun brewing. I mainly use the temperature-control method, where the temperature is raised inchromentaly. It takes a lot of stirring but I love the magic that happens when the starch turns to sugar and the gets watery and changes colour. Its only 7 in the morning and you've made me thristy for a home brew. Keep up the good work.
Nice Video Craig. Alittle tip when your Mashing in: In you get any grain clumps put on a pair of long thick rubber gloves and get in their and kneed your mash. I used to pour my grain in slow, stir, pour, stir. Now I just put all my grain in at once and mix it with my gloved hands. It works well and saves time. Cheers!
Right on brewer, you started a new chapter of home brewing experience influencing all new generation of home brewers.
double headed dog
Thanks Craig! I've been kicking the idea around to get into all grain. You pushed me over the edge. I'm praising you, and my wife is cussing you. Lol. Seriously, thanks for the great videos!
Got stuck on the covid quarantine. Got a brew day planned tomorrow for a Timothy Taylor Landlord clone and a Kolsch kit I ordered the other day that should be here tomorrow or Saturday. Rewatching your old vids because I absolutely love them and am glad you are back on the air. Keep on brewing and can't wait to see your next video. Cheers!
The funnest guy to watch & learn from. Real guy.
Nice job Craig, you got me into brewing nearly two years ago with the report on the Coopers brewing kit, I progressed quickly to partial grain then to all grain. I actually picked up a good pointer in this video. That was dropping your chiller in while still boiling insuring you completely sanitize the chiller. I have been dropping mine in after flame out and immediately start chilling, maybe not enough time at high temp to kill off what ever nasties are on the chiller.
A few tips from another AG brewer (with the same cooler mash tun!)
1) You can add the grains all at once, then stir, as HokieHomeBrew said
2) Heat the strike water about 5-10 degrees higher than your desired strike temp to allow the cooler to absorb some heat
3) I batch sparge, and while my efficiency has varied each batch, the beer has still been great every time
4) Can't say for sure, but I thought I remember Jamil saying it's best to not make a starter with dry yeast
Cheers, Craig!
Congratulations on your first AG Craig. If I hadn't know, I would have thought you had brewed many AG batches before making this video. You made it look as easy as brewing a partial extract kit. Cheers, 17!
Congrats on your first all grain buddy! Don't worry about the few "rough spots" that you had, you'll get them worked out as you get a feel for your equipment. Also, it takes balls to record your first brew day. Cheers!
Hi Craig. I've watched a few of your videos but one I saw recently you were saying some people had been giving bad or negative comments about your videos. I bet none of them has ever made a video or even a decent pint! Ignore them...I love your style and 'naturalness'. Keep it up yore doing a grand job.
Craig we love the way you make something potentially complicated easy, thankyou for your clarity, simple approach and instructional vids, keep up the good work.
I did the same thing on my first use of a mash tun. Then after a while, I just dumped the whole thing in at once! This was a great video Craig, especially because you covered a couple of the real challenges that first time all grain brewers go through, specifically temperatures. Very exciting to finally see Craig do All Grain!
Nice job Craig. I am learning a lot from a cool guy like you. - Philippines
I love all your videos, nice to see your take on ag brewing. I also am jealous of the whole leaf cascade hops. Keep on making videos man, we all enjoy them
Well, once again, Craig, you've taken the mystery right out of homebrewing. I've been pretty set against an all-grain brew because of the setup and extra equipment involved. But you just did it on a kitchen stove. Thanks. I'll let you explain to my wife why I had to suddenly go buy a whole bunch more s**t!
Great video. Thumbs up.
great video craig always look forward to your uploads cheers n beers
A historic moment indeed. Congratulations, Craig.
craig the sandy shaw of homebrew 17 great video
@Craig.....I see....well I might give it a try.I really enjoy your videos and thanks for showing us your tips.Cheers n Beers mate.
Looking back at this,the one that gave me the nerve to go partial mash,I'm on my 2nd today. Crush wasn't fine enough for biab,so OG suffered a couple points compared to last time. But this one is my own recipe. Ajm American/English pm pale ale with NZ hops throughout. I've got a pound of them if you'd like a couple ounces to play with. My treat to you for helping me from the start in Jan 2011. God bless.
Great video, and awesome to see you're starting to do some all grain brewing! I've been brewing for about 13 years myself, all grain for most of that time...and lately I've been doing some extract brews again cause time is a bit short...But I will still do all grain when I can, after you get a few batches under your belt, you'll be hooked! And if you get malt in bulk, it can be significantly cheaper than extract brewing. I also brew on the kitchen stove, boiling in two pots...Works!
I'm glad this one FINALLY came up in a search for AG brews. I've been hoping to find a few of yours Craig. Thanks for showing us how its done. This one closed the gap for my wife and with the use of a translater (she speaks mostly Russian) she now understands what I'm trying to accomplish here in Ukraine where beer is not HBed since its cheaper than coffee. Vodka and wine are HBed but not beer. Wish us luck, I'm getting ready to start malting my first batch of barley.
First time out the gate and he does a double decoction American IPA, just like getting in the pool, why go slow? Jump right on in ! That beer will surely be your finest to date Mr. Well done.
I would be careful with only doing a 15 minute boil with all grain (referring to the second pot without hop additions). A full 60 minute is usually recommended to release DMS from the wort.
Craig nice video I can not wait to see the taste test video. Congrats on your first all grain.
next time don't worry about the clumps and put the grain in a lot faster, i think you spent too much time worrying about that and lost a bunch of heat. glad to finally see this vid, craig!! very exciting! great production as always!
Craig, I have been watching you for a while. I am happy to see you are
into to all grain brewing now. I think you will do great. Looking forward to more videos.
Unintentional decoction :) you gonna love the result :)
Awesome video Craig!! I just stared home brewing after procrastinating doing it for years.. I've read a few books about it...and they pretty much just confused me.. Your vids have cleared up ALOT of the steps and how to questions I've had!!!
Thanks alot Buddy!!
-Brian-
geat vi Craig. You are awsome man. Keep up the good work.
Hi Craig. Thanks for your inpiration I've set my very first coopers dark ale. Here in Norway beers under 4.5% that 's allowed in the grosery store is very expensive. ( beer over 4,5% and spirits are sold in special goverment controlled stores and are so expensive that nobody really buys it. Thanks again for lots of useful information and inspiration. Cheers Jan
awesome video, i agree with another comment adding strike water and grains a little faster and you'll hit you target mash temp. my mash tun is the same as yours except that on the bottom of my mash tun lid I put a drip coil with a barbed connection that comes through the top of mash tun and connects to a five gallon hot liqueur tank makes for easy sparging. well that's my two cents. love Home Brew Wednesday, and most of all the bloopers.
Cheers Greg...
nice one craig , looking forward to your taste test - i might try split my next all-grain boil like you done as my pot is huge and slow to get up to temperature, great idea for stove top brewing.
Good man craig , perfect as always
Congrats on the first AG Craig! Just like the extract kits, as I do more AG batches the more I learn, man I love home brewing, Cheers great vid!
A few pints of that and you'll be under the table! You made history buddy!!!!
Great Vid Craig, Nice job, and Congratulations on your First ALL Grain!! 17!!!
all Grain Fun, nice Craig, more work=more satisfaction ;)
Another fabulous video Craig! I know this ones been a LONG time coming, but you execute it beautifully. I love the bloopers and your humble nature. Just awesome. I always enjoy watching your process and listening to your commentary. You've definately be an inspiration to me and look forward to more. CheersNBeers to you! 17
Awesome Craig, have you thought about putting your fermenters in a water bath of some sort for the primary fermentation to help keep temps down, you can freeze old water bottles, etc, and just change them out, to help aid in this, I save old windshield washer solvent jugs and freeze. Good luck and Cheers
Hey Craig, I love all of your videos and this one is the best yet. Really informative stuff. Cheers.
Oh hey I also wanted to say thanks for all the great videos! I'm a big fan!!!
Great video again Craig, it's almost identical to the way I did my first All grain, even down to dropping the stirrer into the mash tun. Cheers, 17!
This came just in time....I've been doing partial mash for about 6 months now and I want to make the jump into All-grain...thanks for the vid!
I have been waiting for this video and really enjoyed it. I look forward to you now going back and showing how you now brew kits etc.
That's that cascade hops. That's that all grain. You know what's good. You know how we do.
Awesome Craig thanks for posting
That's a great job for a first time all grain. You might wanna try to minimize splashing and aerating of the hot wort, as hot wort easily binds oxygen to the sugars, rather than just the water. Those compounds often survive the boil only to reemit out of solution into the beer at some point of lagering, resulting in oxidation or "cardboard flavour". I would recommend Palmers book "How to Brew", on this, which ranges from introductory to advanced, in a super comprehensible, even page-turning way.
Great video Craig. Love the all grain intro.. I just got back into brewing after a year or two off... I was introduced via Mr. Beer and soon after went right at all grain!!! I am slowly working myself back into the homebrew game with a few extract kits but and excited to get mashing again!!!
Great Videos Craig. I'm really enjoying them. Cheers from Brazil.
nice video, now you can say you are brewing your own beer!
Great video. hope it comes out like ya want
Long time bro...good to see you again.
i want to do that.
looks lika a good way to spend the day
really like this video and also really glad you finally got into all grain =D
Congrats on the first all grain batch! I hope to get around to doing my first AG batch in the near future. I'll be doing a stovetop split boil as well, so good to see that it worked out ok for you.
Cheers,
Aidan in NZ
Awesome video :)
Thank you for making this video, Craig! It really simplified this process and made it easy for me to grasp.
Glad to See an AG video from you Craig :-)
Good job. Cheers 17
great video as always craig.
Great video Craig Cheers, thumbs up.
Congrats on your first all-grain Craig.
Maybe you say what grain used and how much
Great video Craig! You were one of the reasons I started homebrewing. Love your videos, they are very helpful. Great to see you doing AG batches now. I started doing them recently too and agree are alot of fun!
great video. doing my first all grain next weekend.thanks for the instruction
Great video, I will soon be constructing my first mash tun and brewing my first all grain batch of beer. Thanks for the info!
Great video Craig. Love your stuff.. Just getting into brewing so thanks for your work...
Hiya Craig....Congrats on the All Grain vid! Nice job. Love the 3 worm clamps per post on your chiller! Bet you have got no leaks!
Great video, Craig. I like all of your videos, BTW.
Great video Craig, thanks a lot!
Great Video craig
Great videos Craig I have found them helpfull just started brewing a short time ago and you have answered many questions,
Thanks
Joe
Good stuff, congrats on the first AG, Craig!
I just did my first AG ale today with a very similar mash tun that I made. Good job! Thanks!
i like your videos, greetings from chile
Nice video Bro!
Hey Craig i finally did an all grain supposed to be similar to cooper english bitter. Cool experience so far.
It prevented the grain bed from being disturbed. The grain bed forms a natural filter. When you first run off the wort ("liquor" technically), it has husks in it. When he recirculated it, the grain bed settled and formed that natural filter.
Hi Craig, after watching your kit videos, you got me started, and I say a big Thanks. However they all turned out very dissapointing. I'm going to go straight to the all grain brews. This has got to be the only way to go, if you drink beer regularly. I guess the kits gave me an idea of how beers made, and procedures on the importance of cleaning, but thats about it. It's just got to be all grain from now on.
Good work Craig!!! Can't wait to hear your opinion on the the taste compared to a extract kit (:
You need an assistant craig! Looks good and this was a very helpful video, im considering going into all grain brewing very soon.
g'day from australia, i really enjoy your videos mate keep up the good work!
Good Job on the raising temperature by taking some mash out and boiling. Sounds a lot like the method of decoction mashing that they have used in Germany for hundreds of years. They hover don't just take mash liquid but they take grains to boil and put back in the kettle to raise the mash to the next temurature in step mashing instead of heating the whole mash tun.
Congratulations, Craig! I can't wait to see your review. Looking forward to more vids!
I love the Wesley Willis instrumental at 11:48 !
oooh you did an all grain and a double decoction!! look at you!
I am looking forward to the taste test on this brew. You used a lot of hops! It will be interesting to see what the flavour and bitterness is like.
Craig your awesome
This was a great video you rock man!
Nice video like always, what's the white pill looking thing that went into the boil, is that to put the water PH at 5.2??
great vid craig, you got me into the brewing scene. I'm brewing back to back to stock up and you're to thank! keep up the great instructional vids brutha!
good man craig :) looking forward to seeing how it turns out :)
This video makes me very hoppy!!
Just a tip, aim a little high for your strike water. I always lose about 5 degrees pouring my strike water into my room temp cooler. It's a lot easier to stir out some of the heat than to add back boiling water
Liked the 2 pot boil method, much cheaper alternative than buying a big full boil kettle.
Great video. I'm just starting out all grain brewing myself. About that yeast starter malarchy, your yeast starter to me as exactly the same as a liquid yeast except if you bu the liquid one somebody allready made it for you. (Wyeast activator). Since your yeast is only one strain making a starter could not do anything bad to it. If it was a multi strain one they might comepets and not turn out the same every time just like the weeds in the garden are different every year.
Great videos. Some more details on how much water, where to buy the stuff online etc. I really want to make a porter from scratch.
Congratulations!! Well done Craig another great video, Hmm I want to try that beer though ! :) Cheers Gash 17
hi craig love watch your vids so helpfull .was watch at point from 11.02 to 11.18 seen a fly flyin around by u .dont know if you seen it lol.just made vid on how to .fix your fob key in a pc mouse .for funny .hope you will have look see what u think .as you say got heat wave were u are.here in uk rain rain no summer this year .best wish john