Here’s an idea that I think would be fun: You said you were going to do a dopplebock soon- post your recipe before you brew it, that way the viewers have a chance to brew it at the same time and compare notes.
That's an awesome idea! I'll have to put some thought into how to do that. Don't know that I could do that frequently, but it would be a fun thing to try and clearly it looks like several people agree!
Thanks for bringing us some great entertainment again in 2024. Congratulations on your promotions fantastic. Sounds like you have such a busy life and we as subscribers appreciate that. Happy New Year and all the best for 2025 cheers 👍🍻
Good luck with the 'Dry January'. I like what you said about recalibrating your relationship with alcohol. This is my second year holding myself accountable and I have found it to be a positive benefit.
Life is about balance my friend. I recently picked up archery hunting and taken on new opportunities professionally and haven’t been brewing as much as normal. I routinely watch your older content just cause you’re so detail oriented and it helps me organize my thoughts before my brew days. I’m happy for you sir, high quality at a pace that allows you to be successful in all the other endeavors is vital! Happy New Years and cheers to 2025!
Watching this video makes me realize I'm just the enlisted ranks version of you🤣🤣 I'm a Veteran (E4), I work in aerospace as a technician (not an engineer), I live in a townhouse and my beer is not quite up to your level. But seriously, I appreciate your content and its has been a major influence in my brewing hobby. Thank You and Happy New Year!
Thanks for a great year in 2024 and love watching your content. Life comes first. We'll see you when you can hop on. Keep up the quality content! Cheers!
Happy new year Steve! You have so much on and I value your videos. Just publish when you can this year. It will be worth the wait as a viewer. Glad you're enjoying fatherhood. Believe me, you never stop being a parent and my daughter is 34 this year! But then, you never stop being a brewer either and I have been brewing for a very long time! All the best.
Happy holidays to you and your family too! Congrats on all the positive going on and thank you for your videos! I have learned so much and enjoy seeing the content you produce. Happy new year and can't wait to see what you produce in the coming year!
Nice review. I brewed more than previous years in 2024 now that my twins are 7 - it gets so much easier, hang in there! My favourite batch this year was a German style pilsner, my worst was a kveik fermented golden ale that was just dire. Goal for 2025 is to develop a house lager recipe...
Happy New Year. Thanks for providing some the best brewing content on YT. A tip for the barley wine. Brew another batch now. You don't want to wait until this first batch comes into condition before you realise the next batch you decide to brew is a year or more away from being ready!
For the training videos I have to make, I would LOVE that lens. To be able to blur out the background like that and really focus on what you need to would be awesome. Happy New Year and I can't wait to see what you brew in 2025. Cheers.
Hey, just wanted to say thank you for your awesome channel. I'm still in the beginning of my homebrew way and your content became a lighthouse pointing to the right direction. I wish you and your family all the best in new year. Obviously, job and family are on the top but even if you do new video once a month I'll be in the first who watches.
Happy new year! Another great year of videos from one of the top home brewing resources on the internet! I, too will be taking the year off from AHA and the NHC due to the reasons you listed. Cheers and best of luck to a happy, heathy, and productive new year from this Kentuckian living in central NY state. I will look forward to the next video!
I'm looking forward to these big beers. Can't wait for the Baltic. I have one fermenting, but I'd been guessing. Also, have a treehouse style ipa coming thanks to your video! Not that I used it on the Treehouse IPA homebrew competition, but should have. I tried cloning a local brew small batch from years ago. I get to attempt perfecting it
I've made about 20 batches of beer at this point, and the 3 best Ive made have all been Czech lagers with Prostejov pilsner as the base. I'm fully convinced that they're adding some magic to this malt! 10:12
Thanks for your content this year, which many times got me inspired and dare to try new beer styles. Good luck and I'm waiting for new episodes. Hoppy new year!
Nice recap of the year, been some great content and great production! Look forward to more videos in 2025, even if they may not be as frequent, take some time to look after yourself! Oh and I wonder if doing a collab with flying wombat TV would be good?
Enjoyed the recap. I'm surprised the low alcohol vid didn't get the views... it seems to be a trend. Maybe it is me? I have shot for low alcohol but 'substantial' beers. I even bought *gasp* 0 alcohol beers in the store (heinekin 0.0, what you might expect, but wasn't any worse then a 'lite' beer - 69 calories as I recall?). High 30s scores aren't bad, it is a drinkable beer. I got those as well when I have entered comps. "good example of style, but nothing stands out" was the comment that burned into my brain. lol, I haven't entered any comps since either! Congrats on your new command. Have a great `25! If you're looking to make more content, consider this... Make a few 'brew-a-long' videos. Corresponding with a particular day, make a poll for a beer and grain bill and say -i'm making XYZ of this day." make a vid about the poll results and the brew day, then make another video on the particular day for the tasting. Obvious days would be a stout or red on St Pats, a Classic American Pils on the 4th, or a fest beer for, wait for it, oktoberfest. So 1 brew day would be 2 maybe 3, videos. Some 30 mins, but also some 5-10 mins. So say in late Jan early Feb you'd make a poll for a St Pats beer, then make 1 short video about the poll and comments and encourage other s to 'brew-a-long' with you AND brewing that beer, and then 1 video 'on the day' about tasting/reviewing the beer. So 1 beer creates 2 videos at least.
As a new brewer, I really appreciate the time you take in your videos to cover all the details. I'm a big fan of quality over quantity, so I'm glad you're focused on the right things for 2025. Congrats on company command! Thank you for this channel, keep up the great work.
For about 4 years after my daughter was born, I switched to brewing mostly cider and mead due to time constraints. Now they win me more awards than my beers 🤷♂️
Off topic. But I was looking up recipes. It was a traditional bock. The 1st one to come up had put corn syrup for priming. I haven't started brewing yet. But can u prime with corn syrup? And is there any benefits to using corn syrup to priming Sugar?
You can prime with any source of sugar - corn syrup being among them. I think it might be easier to find and measure priming sugar but otherwise I don't think you'll notice any difference.
Everything I learned about ascorbic acid I learned from Genus Brewing and their excellent youtube channel. I don't have a degree in organic chemistry but Peter does and he can explain it very well. They have a handful of videos on the topic.
Hey 😉 And happy new year. remember to upgrade your ram and cpu for 2025, and if you get close to the stress line. Post a video, and we are here to catch you👌👌
Ah dang, was hoping you would be making more content, not less this year. Seems like most all the homebrew channels have really scaled back or just went radio silent
Honestly you, BruSho and Bryain or as I named him myself "El teacher"... are my favorite brewers. You guys are real and no BS. I do miss Larry aswell. Keep up the good work. We all learn from you. Thx. Cheers from Phoenix, AZ. 🍻
No. When used properly it's effective. It's not a substitute to good process though. The bulk of studies on beer stability support that it works when used correctly. One study says the opposite but they heated samples to 60°C so it's an issue of was the result from the method. Pomegranate extract was the best in the studies I've read, when used in the mash. Ascorbic + meta + gallotannins in the mash are also extremely effective. Storage conditions affect all classes of antioxidants found in beer whether from the beer itself or added to it. Specifically ph and temperature will control antioxidant activity in packaged beer.
As someone with a sulfite sensitivity that gives me crippling headaches, I deliberately avoid using it, but ascorbic acid works quite well as cheap insurance. You just need more of it as opposed to KMB or SMB.
Great review, hopefully family life doesn't interfere too much in 2025. Love your channel. Mark from Brisbane (pronounced "Briz bin" for all you yanks 😅😉)
i like your videos , some room for improvement with the recipes is to also put it in metric and maybe publish recipes on brewfather for easy importing and scaling , apart from that keep doing what you are doing , much love from holland < 3
@@paultondolojr9432 you are absolutely right it needs nothing more yet he still asks for suggestions so its just my 2 cents im giving , if he doesnt its absolutely fine, im still gonna watch his videos , its one of the best brewtubes i enjoy watching .
@pastoelio fair enough. Just seems like he puts alot of effort into his videos as is. I figure you punching into the software like the rest of us would be the solution, but im not sure how the converter works on individual recipes on Brew Father. Happy brewing
No worries - I do actually have basically every beer on the channel in brewfather and should have it tagged to "theapartmentbrewer". That should autoconvert to metric as well I think. Let me know if you have any issues with that.
Here’s an idea that I think would be fun: You said you were going to do a dopplebock soon- post your recipe before you brew it, that way the viewers have a chance to brew it at the same time and compare notes.
That's an awesome idea! I'll have to put some thought into how to do that. Don't know that I could do that frequently, but it would be a fun thing to try and clearly it looks like several people agree!
The saaz we’re getting nowadays quite rubbish..
Nice lager-ithmic trend line
As a professional father, I appreciate this comment thoroughly
Most authentic homebrewer on RUclips. Keep it up big bro.
Means a lot to me, thank you!
You’re doing this the right way. Love it
Thanks!
Easily my favorite homebrewing channel. Thank you for 2024 and looking forward to everything in 2025!
Thanks so much! Happy New Year!
Thanks for bringing us some great entertainment again in 2024. Congratulations on your promotions fantastic. Sounds like you have such a busy life and we as subscribers appreciate that. Happy New Year and all the best for 2025 cheers 👍🍻
Happy New Year!
Awesome recap ! Production quality has improved so much and doesn’t go unnoticed!!
Thanks, I’m trying to make the videos as enjoyable as possible!
Good luck with the 'Dry January'. I like what you said about recalibrating your relationship with alcohol. This is my second year holding myself accountable and I have found it to be a positive benefit.
Life is about balance my friend. I recently picked up archery hunting and taken on new opportunities professionally and haven’t been brewing as much as normal. I routinely watch your older content just cause you’re so detail oriented and it helps me organize my thoughts before my brew days. I’m happy for you sir, high quality at a pace that allows you to be successful in all the other endeavors is vital! Happy New Years and cheers to 2025!
Thanks for the words of encouragement and happy new year to you as well!
Great year. Thanks for all you do. Quality over Quantity always. Happy New year
Thank you, happy new year!
Watching this video makes me realize I'm just the enlisted ranks version of you🤣🤣
I'm a Veteran (E4), I work in aerospace as a technician (not an engineer), I live in a townhouse and my beer is not quite up to your level.
But seriously, I appreciate your content and its has been a major influence in my brewing hobby.
Thank You and Happy New Year!
Very cool! I'm glad you've enjoyed the channel and the hobby and keep brewing!
Thanks for a great year in 2024 and love watching your content. Life comes first. We'll see you when you can hop on. Keep up the quality content! Cheers!
Thanks for the kind words and support!
Happy new year Steve! You have so much on and I value your videos. Just publish when you can this year. It will be worth the wait as a viewer. Glad you're enjoying fatherhood. Believe me, you never stop being a parent and my daughter is 34 this year! But then, you never stop being a brewer either and I have been brewing for a very long time! All the best.
I appreciate the words of encouragement!
Happy holidays to you and your family too! Congrats on all the positive going on and thank you for your videos! I have learned so much and enjoy seeing the content you produce. Happy new year and can't wait to see what you produce in the coming year!
Thanks for the kind words - I can't wait to get working on new stuff!
I got home brew books for Christmas and yes one is inspired by doin the mosts videos for dry January so I’ll be having fun with healthy fermenting
Nice review. I brewed more than previous years in 2024 now that my twins are 7 - it gets so much easier, hang in there! My favourite batch this year was a German style pilsner, my worst was a kveik fermented golden ale that was just dire. Goal for 2025 is to develop a house lager recipe...
Congrats on brewing more! Cheers to 2025!
Another great year of content! Can't wait to see what you brew up in 2025 and I am more than happy to wait however long it takes!
Thanks Trent! A little time off is good
Happy New Year. Thanks for providing some the best brewing content on YT.
A tip for the barley wine. Brew another batch now. You don't want to wait until this first batch comes into condition before you realise the next batch you decide to brew is a year or more away from being ready!
This is a good point!
For the training videos I have to make, I would LOVE that lens. To be able to blur out the background like that and really focus on what you need to would be awesome. Happy New Year and I can't wait to see what you brew in 2025. Cheers.
Its so worth it but you have to be careful about distance between the lens and the subject - you can't focus within like 2-3 feet.
Thanks for a good year, Steve, and hoppy new year!
Hoppy New Year!
If busy, videos once a month sounds perfectly fine. Cheers!
Thanks! I'll definitely do my best to keep it coming.
I love this channel so much, man. Appreciate you!
Thank you!
Hey, just wanted to say thank you for your awesome channel. I'm still in the beginning of my homebrew way and your content became a lighthouse pointing to the right direction. I wish you and your family all the best in new year. Obviously, job and family are on the top but even if you do new video once a month I'll be in the first who watches.
I'm glad my channel has helped you so much! Not stopping fully just putting the brakes on for a bit
Happy new year! Another great year of videos from one of the top home brewing resources on the internet!
I, too will be taking the year off from AHA and the NHC due to the reasons you listed. Cheers and best of luck to a happy, heathy, and productive new year from this Kentuckian living in central NY state. I will look forward to the next video!
Thank you very much and happy new year!
Love the upgrades and the channel content in general. Keep it up. Happy new year
Thanks, I appreciate it!
I'm looking forward to these big beers. Can't wait for the Baltic. I have one fermenting, but I'd been guessing. Also, have a treehouse style ipa coming thanks to your video! Not that I used it on the Treehouse IPA homebrew competition, but should have. I tried cloning a local brew small batch from years ago. I get to attempt perfecting it
I'm very excited for the BP as well! Cheers and glad you enjoy the channel!
Love my maltzilla. I rigged mine up on a baseboard with a milwaukee 18v battery adaptor and it runs from that just fine.
Thats awesome!
Here's to much success to you and your family.
Keep doing what you do!
Thanks for the support, I appreciate it!
I've made about 20 batches of beer at this point, and the 3 best Ive made have all been Czech lagers with Prostejov pilsner as the base. I'm fully convinced that they're adding some magic to this malt! 10:12
It is SUCH a great malt!
Thanks for all the great content; always looking forward to the next video, thank you! Have a great New Year
Thank you so much, I appreciate it! Happy new year!
Thanks for your content this year, which many times got me inspired and dare to try new beer styles. Good luck and I'm waiting for new episodes. Hoppy new year!
That is awesome to hear! Hoppy new year!
Nice year in brews !!!
Just what to say, quality is always best
I'd love to see you make an Altbier if possible, keep up the great content!!!!
Its on the list!
Thanks for another great year of content I always look forward to your videos. Happy New Year.
Happy new year!
Great video! Cheers to 2025
Thanks and cheers!
Brilliant as ever, really enjoy your videos.............'Happy New Year' from England, cheers 🍻🍻
Happy New Year!
Thanks for your videos!
Happy to make them!
Nice recap of the year, been some great content and great production!
Look forward to more videos in 2025, even if they may not be as frequent, take some time to look after yourself!
Oh and I wonder if doing a collab with flying wombat TV would be good?
Thank you and happy new year!
Thanks for your videos this year drinking your belgian pilsner happy new year
Awesome - hope you like it! Happy New Year!
Off-topic, but I love the paint colors and trim in your house.
Thank my wife haha
Thanks for the content this year
Enjoyed the recap. I'm surprised the low alcohol vid didn't get the views... it seems to be a trend. Maybe it is me? I have shot for low alcohol but 'substantial' beers. I even bought *gasp* 0 alcohol beers in the store (heinekin 0.0, what you might expect, but wasn't any worse then a 'lite' beer - 69 calories as I recall?).
High 30s scores aren't bad, it is a drinkable beer. I got those as well when I have entered comps. "good example of style, but nothing stands out" was the comment that burned into my brain. lol, I haven't entered any comps since either!
Congrats on your new command. Have a great `25!
If you're looking to make more content, consider this... Make a few 'brew-a-long' videos. Corresponding with a particular day, make a poll for a beer and grain bill and say -i'm making XYZ of this day." make a vid about the poll results and the brew day, then make another video on the particular day for the tasting. Obvious days would be a stout or red on St Pats, a Classic American Pils on the 4th, or a fest beer for, wait for it, oktoberfest. So 1 brew day would be 2 maybe 3, videos. Some 30 mins, but also some 5-10 mins.
So say in late Jan early Feb you'd make a poll for a St Pats beer, then make 1 short video about the poll and comments and encourage other s to 'brew-a-long' with you AND brewing that beer, and then 1 video 'on the day' about tasting/reviewing the beer. So 1 beer creates 2 videos at least.
Thanks for the suggestions!
As a new brewer, I really appreciate the time you take in your videos to cover all the details. I'm a big fan of quality over quantity, so I'm glad you're focused on the right things for 2025. Congrats on company command! Thank you for this channel, keep up the great work.
That is great to hear! Thanks for all the kind words and happy new year!
Great video as usual
Glad you enjoyed it!
For about 4 years after my daughter was born, I switched to brewing mostly cider and mead due to time constraints. Now they win me more awards than my beers 🤷♂️
Nice! Might have to try that myself
Have a great holidays
Thank you, happy new year!
6:34 “Making improvements where I can” I see what you did there 😂
Lol I didn't even realize I made a pun until now
Do you sterilize the cans prior to filling? If so, how? Do u add ascorbic acid into each can, and how much?
Thanks, awesome video
Yup, dunk in starsan. I add probably 1/10th of a gram of ascorbic acid to each prior to filling. This amounts to essentially the tip of a knife
Off topic. But I was looking up recipes. It was a traditional bock. The 1st one to come up had put corn syrup for priming. I haven't started brewing yet. But can u prime with corn syrup? And is there any benefits to using corn syrup to priming Sugar?
You can prime with any source of sugar - corn syrup being among them. I think it might be easier to find and measure priming sugar but otherwise I don't think you'll notice any difference.
Do you have a link to an article/video about using Ascorbic Acid when canning beer?
Everything I learned about ascorbic acid I learned from Genus Brewing and their excellent youtube channel. I don't have a degree in organic chemistry but Peter does and he can explain it very well. They have a handful of videos on the topic.
Hey 😉 And happy new year. remember to upgrade your ram and cpu for 2025, and if you get close to the stress line. Post a video, and we are here to catch you👌👌
Appreciate it!
Ah dang, was hoping you would be making more content, not less this year. Seems like most all the homebrew channels have really scaled back or just went radio silent
It's a tough balancing act between work, life, and making videos! Doing what I can but this is a lot of work
🍻
Honestly you, BruSho and Bryain or as I named him myself "El teacher"... are my favorite brewers. You guys are real and no BS. I do miss Larry aswell. Keep up the good work. We all learn from you. Thx. Cheers from Phoenix, AZ. 🍻
Glad you are enjoying the channel and cheers!
isn't ascorbic acid mostly useless as an antioxidant. I thought most people have moved to sodium metabisulphite now.
No. When used properly it's effective. It's not a substitute to good process though. The bulk of studies on beer stability support that it works when used correctly. One study says the opposite but they heated samples to 60°C so it's an issue of was the result from the method. Pomegranate extract was the best in the studies I've read, when used in the mash. Ascorbic + meta + gallotannins in the mash are also extremely effective. Storage conditions affect all classes of antioxidants found in beer whether from the beer itself or added to it. Specifically ph and temperature will control antioxidant activity in packaged beer.
As someone with a sulfite sensitivity that gives me crippling headaches, I deliberately avoid using it, but ascorbic acid works quite well as cheap insurance. You just need more of it as opposed to KMB or SMB.
Missed opportunity to title the video ‘A Beer In Review
Great review, hopefully family life doesn't interfere too much in 2025. Love your channel. Mark from Brisbane (pronounced "Briz bin" for all you yanks 😅😉)
Cheers and enjoy the Brizbin summer!
i like your videos , some room for improvement with the recipes is to also put it in metric and maybe publish recipes on brewfather for easy importing and scaling , apart from that keep doing what you are doing , much love from holland < 3
volgens mij staan alle recepten al op Brewfather in de bibliotheek onder de naam @theapartmentbrewer. met de link naar de video's in de beschrijving.
His videos need 0 improvement. You sound entitled with that type of comment. Pause the video and type it into brewfather yourself.
@@paultondolojr9432 you are absolutely right it needs nothing more yet he still asks for suggestions so its just my 2 cents im giving , if he doesnt its absolutely fine, im still gonna watch his videos , its one of the best brewtubes i enjoy watching .
@pastoelio fair enough. Just seems like he puts alot of effort into his videos as is. I figure you punching into the software like the rest of us would be the solution, but im not sure how the converter works on individual recipes on Brew Father.
Happy brewing
No worries - I do actually have basically every beer on the channel in brewfather and should have it tagged to "theapartmentbrewer". That should autoconvert to metric as well I think. Let me know if you have any issues with that.
Pretty sure RUclips purged a large number of accounts this year
Nice! Might enjoy doing that myself