This is a great instructional video for new beer brewers! Making beer can be quite intimidating but is a whole lot of fun to learn and develop your own recipe. I highly recommend getting a good bundle of equipment and maybe start with a beer recipe kit from a company like brewers best. This way you aren't guessing what aspects of a beer you need and come out with a mediocre product. You also get a better understanding of how beer is made and what grains, sugars, malts, hops, etc. Make different types of beer. After a few successful brews you should have the confidence and know-how to make your own unique beer recipes!
This is excellent advice. I'm actually headed to my own LHBS this weekend to pick up a simple all-grain kit for an upcoming beer video. No need to spin my own wheels when someone else has done the work for me!
Great overview of brewing! You sure had your hands full with that hop schedule but glad it turned out good. And thanks for the shoutout! Excited to see what you brew next.
just started a batch of turbo yeast, pitched at 32 celsius, first bubble was 30 minutes after the pitch. 2 hours later and the krausen is 1 inch thicc, foamy as hell, im stunned as i expected a 6 hours lag at the very least.
Been all grain brewing and partial mash for a long time, it's confusing at first but becomes super simple. Like with your meads, you can do so much with beer! Make a SMASH (Single Malt And Single Hop) to really get to know what different hops and grains offer, plus they're super crushable in like a week if you could crash then keg!
You mention that milling increases extraction efficiency. Can you be specific as to how much more milled grains can give off fermentable sugars? I am debating whether to buy a grainmill and then to find space for storing it
Could you please do an episode about the effects of using different types of water in particular using the BLK water and then as a control use the water you normally do to see how much it will change the taste
Very nice! Im eager to test a Goose IPA lookalike beer with: Centennial 25g 50 min Cascade 15g 40 min (2.5-5g Harlequin 30 mins? flavour...) Bobek 15g 15 mins Cascade 15g 1 mins Bobek 15g 1 mins Cascade 15g 7 days Idea: 2.5-5g Harlequin 7 days? Let me know what you guys think! Yeast S-04 and would be cool to try a WB-06 also or a K-97. Would be cool to see!!!
I have the same stir plate from NB. Didnt know it has a timer. Also never seen anyone make a starter with dried yeast. I guess its the same principle as with liquid yeast but somehow thought dried was different. Just pitched some belle saison dried yeast in a brew and really surprised at how long the lag phase is. I made a starter with some washed liquid yeast but it wasnt going so i used the dried as a back up
So I think where I errored here while trying to follow your method, was when you said "honey bucket" @9:00 I thought you meant the bucket from under the seat in the outhouse. It seemed odd, but I thought maybe it had something to do with "natural yeast strain" inoculation. Anyways, my beer (as you might imagine) at least before carbonation, tastes a little like outhouse squeezin's. Any comments for "cleaning up" my beer? as I am about to package it. Also, when you say dry humping, is that code talk for some "after a few pints" post sesh activity?
Now you just opened a door for new material in a big way, quality versions of some of the best clones and some that are not so well known!!! Great beers but most importantly unique and distinctive tasting beers.
Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been extract brewing for a little over a year now. I’ve been wanting to switch to all grain but, as you said, it’s so intimidating lol. Hopefully between this and the BIAB video you mentioned I’ll finally be able to take the leap
Lots of information, loving the timestamps, but there's a lot to break down in this video so I might have to re-watch it 2, 3, 40 times before I stop feeling intimidated by all-grain haha.
The spent grains are good for your chickens and to make dog treats. Just make sure you don't get hops in the spent grains (bad for dogs) Thanks for the video.
You take the channel name seriously. Love it! If you stir the wort while chilling, it should drop quicker. Obviously, a pump is better (more sanitary), but that's another $100+ investment in pump, fittings, and hoses. And bugs suck, when brewing outside. I had a little guy hop in right as I was about to start transferring wort. Just started swimming in my soon to be beer. Fished him out with my mash paddle, and no harm done in the long run. I like electric brewing, just because having temp control is awesome (whether that's an all-in-one, RIMS, HERMS, or whatever). Basically, I'm lazy. ;D Edit: Did you do any water salt adjustments?
I did not do water adjustments on this one. Fortunately, after boiling, our water here is pretty good. Not too hard, not too soft. I am very envious of electric kettle setups, but thankfully I was able to rehab Anna's dad's old kit so this didn't cost me too much out-of-pocket!
@@DointheMost My water sucks, so I just buy distilled. Eventually would be nice to get a reverse osmosis setup, but not worth it in an apartment. If I had gotten a good setup like that second hand, I would have stuck with it too. It's a tried and true method for producing excellent beer.
@@DointheMost Brewers Friend saves and calculates all my stuff, that and taking great notes makes for a stress free brew day (UNLESS YOU HOP EVER 60sec)
Great video! I guess beer brewing is still too much hussle for me but I always enjoy watching the process :) On thing made me giggle though XD Vorlauf is more like "four louf". Cheers from Germany!
BIAB is much easier. I've made excellent beer using just a large soup kettle, and a bag for the grains. Heat to temp, then stick in a slightly warmed oven for the duration of the mash. Typically, with the lid on, I would only lose a degree or two over the duration of the mash. With a small enough batch, you can chill it in the kitchen sink by plonking the kettle in, and filling the sink with water / ice. That said, extract brewing produces excellent beer as well, so all grain is really only for the enthusiast.
Try getting East Kent Goldings... talking about unobtanium.... Nice Rebel Tattoo. Also it is smoother because it needs more time to clarify, too much body from cloud.
Judging by your reactions I'd take the Same recipe hit it with some 2 oz dry hopping and 1 oz at 40 minutes and ferment at the low end of your yeast maybe 10 degrees cooler and you'll avoid the banana and get a malty smooth hoppy mouthful. At 7% the alcohol already matches the malt, just need some more creative use of hop.
Very good video! Do you ever find a problem with your hop spider resting on the bottom of your pot? I read somewhere that it is not recommended. However, my brew put is more wide and short opposed to tall.
@@DointheMost very nice thanks. Do you typically prop it on something when you are using it with your dutch oven as well, or just set it in and not have any issues?
@@DointheMost Fantastic news!! I kept trying to come up with a way to make something to stick to the side of the pot, and then hang a spider from that. Like a child's booster seat type thing. Thanks again!
I've noticed that the hop spider will vibrate when bubbles form under it as the water boils. This only happens for me when I place the chiller in the kettle, and I have to move the hop spider off the edge of the kettle. Doesn't seem to have any ill effects, but I've never done it for the full boil.
@@rogerschulz8721 Yeah I’ll be in town the 18th for Valkyries Horn mead competition. The awards celebration is at the NB warehouse in St Paul. Brew bucket autographs are the best kind, because a little bit of starsan will take them right off! 🤣
It’s definitely doin the most but I wouldn’t say that is simple. He talks about brew in a bag and that would be the simplest what to all grain brew. Far less equipment and cost too.
Flip flops match garden hose almost exactly. I’m loving the content, listening to the content, and I’m taking friggin’ notes over here, but my dumb Neanderthal brain keeps going: “Ook Ook , matchy greens are matchy… Ook.”
This is a great instructional video for new beer brewers! Making beer can be quite intimidating but is a whole lot of fun to learn and develop your own recipe.
I highly recommend getting a good bundle of equipment and maybe start with a beer recipe kit from a company like brewers best. This way you aren't guessing what aspects of a beer you need and come out with a mediocre product. You also get a better understanding of how beer is made and what grains, sugars, malts, hops, etc. Make different types of beer. After a few successful brews you should have the confidence and know-how to make your own unique beer recipes!
This is excellent advice. I'm actually headed to my own LHBS this weekend to pick up a simple all-grain kit for an upcoming beer video. No need to spin my own wheels when someone else has done the work for me!
That homemade setup is absolutely doin' the most. Excellent work.
Thanks! I can only claim parts - some of it was constructed by Anna’s dad many years ago. That converted keg brew kettle is nice, though.
Great overview of brewing! You sure had your hands full with that hop schedule but glad it turned out good. And thanks for the shoutout! Excited to see what you brew next.
90 hop additions is one for the scrapbook but I promise I’ll make wiser decisions going forward! 🤣
Congratulations on your first solo brew. And I did my first solo brew today. It smells great. We’ll see how it goes after fermentation.
just started a batch of turbo yeast, pitched at 32 celsius, first bubble was 30 minutes after the pitch. 2 hours later and the krausen is 1 inch thicc, foamy as hell, im stunned as i expected a 6 hours lag at the very least.
Been all grain brewing and partial mash for a long time, it's confusing at first but becomes super simple. Like with your meads, you can do so much with beer! Make a SMASH (Single Malt And Single Hop) to really get to know what different hops and grains offer, plus they're super crushable in like a week if you could crash then keg!
I have so many SMaSH plans. HYPE! Happy brewing!
Tip: if you have a sous vide stick, it is perfect to heat up your sparge water to your desired temperature.
Great video, as always.
Great tip!
Excellent video as always! Loved the chicken bit at the end too! XD
Glad you enjoyed it!
You mention that milling increases extraction efficiency. Can you be specific as to how much more milled grains can give off fermentable sugars? I am debating whether to buy a grainmill and then to find space for storing it
Please, can you tell me at what temperature and pressure do you put in the keg? And how many days?
Anyway, love your easy language, I m from Italy!
Could you please do an episode about the effects of using different types of water in particular using the BLK water and then as a control use the water you normally do to see how much it will change the taste
Very nice! Im eager to test a Goose IPA lookalike beer with:
Centennial 25g 50 min
Cascade 15g 40 min (2.5-5g Harlequin 30 mins? flavour...)
Bobek 15g 15 mins
Cascade 15g 1 mins
Bobek 15g 1 mins
Cascade 15g 7 days
Idea: 2.5-5g Harlequin 7 days?
Let me know what you guys think! Yeast S-04 and would be cool to try a WB-06 also or a K-97. Would be cool to see!!!
I have the same stir plate from NB. Didnt know it has a timer. Also never seen anyone make a starter with dried yeast. I guess its the same principle as with liquid yeast but somehow thought dried was different. Just pitched some belle saison dried yeast in a brew and really surprised at how long the lag phase is. I made a starter with some washed liquid yeast but it wasnt going so i used the dried as a back up
So I think where I errored here while trying to follow your method, was when you said "honey bucket" @9:00 I thought you meant the bucket from under the seat in the outhouse. It seemed odd, but I thought maybe it had something to do with "natural yeast strain" inoculation. Anyways, my beer (as you might imagine) at least before carbonation, tastes a little like outhouse squeezin's. Any comments for "cleaning up" my beer? as I am about to package it. Also, when you say dry humping, is that code talk for some "after a few pints" post sesh activity?
Now you just opened a door for new material in a big way, quality versions of some of the best clones and some that are not so well known!!! Great beers but most importantly unique and distinctive tasting beers.
I’m super excited to finally have this all grain set up rehabilitated and ready to make excellent beer again!
Do the chickens eat the discarded grain? Just thinking of starting brewing and have chickens already is why I ask.
Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been extract brewing for a little over a year now. I’ve been wanting to switch to all grain but, as you said, it’s so intimidating lol. Hopefully between this and the BIAB video you mentioned I’ll finally be able to take the leap
It’s not as scary as it seems, I promise. I had to get past that mental hurdle myself!
Jealous of the stir plate. Been wanting to buy/build one for a while now.
This one is pretty cool - and relatively quiet, which is nice. I'm actually spinning up a Saison starter in it right now.
Lots of information, loving the timestamps, but there's a lot to break down in this video so I might have to re-watch it 2, 3, 40 times before I stop feeling intimidated by all-grain haha.
We’ll be doing more videos on all-grain too! This was definitely a learning exercise in how to edit and explain a complex series of events.
As always, very clean and nice video, David looking good with that Red Dead Redemption 2 beard.
He will appreciate this comment so much 😎
The spent grains are good for your chickens and to make dog treats. Just make sure you don't get hops in the spent grains (bad for dogs) Thanks for the video.
The chickens definitely invade the compost heap every time something new goes in! Haha
I don't understand how you are using 8 oz of hops for this recipe. Isn't that double the amount? What is the IBU?
You take the channel name seriously. Love it! If you stir the wort while chilling, it should drop quicker. Obviously, a pump is better (more sanitary), but that's another $100+ investment in pump, fittings, and hoses. And bugs suck, when brewing outside. I had a little guy hop in right as I was about to start transferring wort. Just started swimming in my soon to be beer. Fished him out with my mash paddle, and no harm done in the long run.
I like electric brewing, just because having temp control is awesome (whether that's an all-in-one, RIMS, HERMS, or whatever). Basically, I'm lazy. ;D
Edit: Did you do any water salt adjustments?
I did not do water adjustments on this one. Fortunately, after boiling, our water here is pretty good. Not too hard, not too soft. I am very envious of electric kettle setups, but thankfully I was able to rehab Anna's dad's old kit so this didn't cost me too much out-of-pocket!
@@DointheMost My water sucks, so I just buy distilled. Eventually would be nice to get a reverse osmosis setup, but not worth it in an apartment.
If I had gotten a good setup like that second hand, I would have stuck with it too. It's a tried and true method for producing excellent beer.
Confidence is key, Be confident and you can do it. (and you did) Welcome to all-grain.
Brew day checklist was a big headache-saver for me! Definitely helped boost my confidence about going it alone.
@@DointheMost Brewers Friend saves and calculates all my stuff, that and taking great notes makes for a stress free brew day (UNLESS YOU HOP EVER 60sec)
Great video! I guess beer brewing is still too much hussle for me but I always enjoy watching the process :) On thing made me giggle though XD Vorlauf is more like "four louf". Cheers from Germany!
BIAB is much easier. I've made excellent beer using just a large soup kettle, and a bag for the grains. Heat to temp, then stick in a slightly warmed oven for the duration of the mash. Typically, with the lid on, I would only lose a degree or two over the duration of the mash. With a small enough batch, you can chill it in the kitchen sink by plonking the kettle in, and filling the sink with water / ice. That said, extract brewing produces excellent beer as well, so all grain is really only for the enthusiast.
My German is not great! Thanks for watching and cheers!
Someone please GET THIS MAN A DRILL for his grain mill!🤣🤣🤦♂️Great video!
@@Rubio_Eric You don’t like a little arm workout? 🤣
@@DointheMost nope. 16oz pint arm workouts is all I need lol🤣💪
Try getting East Kent Goldings... talking about unobtanium.... Nice Rebel Tattoo. Also it is smoother because it needs more time to clarify, too much body from cloud.
Judging by your reactions I'd take the Same recipe hit it with some 2 oz dry hopping and 1 oz at 40 minutes and ferment at the low end of your yeast maybe 10 degrees cooler and you'll avoid the banana and get a malty smooth hoppy mouthful. At 7% the alcohol already matches the malt, just need some more creative use of hop.
Very good video! Do you ever find a problem with your hop spider resting on the bottom of your pot? I read somewhere that it is not recommended. However, my brew put is more wide and short opposed to tall.
It actually rests on top of that little capillary tube at the bottom and so far I have not noticed any issues at all!
@@DointheMost very nice thanks. Do you typically prop it on something when you are using it with your dutch oven as well, or just set it in and not have any issues?
@@jasonduggan2987 In the Dutch oven it sits right on the bottom and I’ve not noticed any issues there either. :)
@@DointheMost Fantastic news!! I kept trying to come up with a way to make something to stick to the side of the pot, and then hang a spider from that. Like a child's booster seat type thing. Thanks again!
I've noticed that the hop spider will vibrate when bubbles form under it as the water boils. This only happens for me when I place the chiller in the kettle, and I have to move the hop spider off the edge of the kettle. Doesn't seem to have any ill effects, but I've never done it for the full boil.
Had me at "general Kenobi" 😂
Would love to see a brew using just dry malt extract U-tube doesn't have it
It might not be very tasty! But it’s worth exploring, I’m sure. :)
Even better if you can visit Northern Brewer in Minneapolis.
I’ll be there next week!
@@DointheMost Any idea what day you are passing through? Are you doing Brew Bucket signing...
@@rogerschulz8721 Yeah I’ll be in town the 18th for Valkyries Horn mead competition. The awards celebration is at the NB warehouse in St Paul. Brew bucket autographs are the best kind, because a little bit of starsan will take them right off! 🤣
@@DointheMost haha didn't think about that. Guess a log book signing would be better. lol
is the chicken Optional ?
I find that they provide great moral support
It’s definitely doin the most but I wouldn’t say that is simple. He talks about brew in a bag and that would be the simplest what to all grain brew. Far less equipment and cost too.
General Grainus
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Flip flops match garden hose almost exactly. I’m loving the content, listening to the content, and I’m taking friggin’ notes over here, but my dumb Neanderthal brain keeps going: “Ook Ook , matchy greens are matchy… Ook.”
It was distracting to me while editing too! haha
General Kenobi lmfao
Hello there