All Grain Home Brewing (8 of 8)

[Geekstur159]

Looks as if video 4 of your 8 video series is corrupt. Otherwise, nicely done!

If you are still looking for a use for the used grains, you can use them as one of the ingredients in making dog biscuits. Dogs love the grains.

Cheers

[falconer6439]

Awesome series man, looking forward to getting all my homebrew supplies soon and doing all grain.

[aisha21ch]

@chrisknight000 WOW.. u should be a teacher... No seriously!

You were brewing with so passion.. I just came here to see what brewing is as its my exam tomorrow.. I knw I go off limits to learn :D But you kept me here all the time! great videos.. keep up the good work :)

[MrPittsSox]

Thanks man. Very helpful and informative.

[britarthc]

yeah, diff michael jackson

[steamyb005]

Enjoyed the whole series. Just started extract brewing recently and actually ordered 2 kegs, etc. today. I am researching secondary kegging and ran across your vids. Real good info and encouraging me to try the whole grain. Thanks!

[Stecool25]

Awesome video Chris, thanks for sharing!

I just started brewing about 4 months ago and I have been using concentrates.I am surprisingly happy withe results. But I have been contemplating on going all grain. You have inspired me to do so. Thanks!

[mnlaxer]

dude, you took your OG reading after you pitched the yeast....that's no bueno bro!

[medameda80]

@mnlaxer exectley i was wandering about it. as i know you shoul measure OG after turning of stove!!! am i right?

[firstaid10101010]

Is Michael Jackson the brewier dead? I just started reading one of his books, just heard about him and now I find out he is dead! Jeeze.

[linehan6468]

Thanks for these vids. Just started (extract) and looking to work towards all grain. I can read all kinds of posts, listen to podcasts, but vids like yours really explain the process well because you're actually demonstrating it all very clearly. Starting to wonder why all bucket fermenters aren't just bottling buckets like you're using. using the spigot instead of the cane makes life much easier, no? any disadvantages?

[dstruct1442]

Do you still secondary every batch?

Lately, I've been sticking to leaving each batch in primary for 4+ weeks (depending on the style). I haven't really noticed a difference between extended primaries and using a secondary. Just wanted to know what your current procedure is compared to when this video was shot.

[littlehomesick]

Nice videos man I'm a starsan user too.

I bought a small bottle if iodophor for my conversion check it works good for that and will last a long time. Do you notice any drop in eff when batch sparging vs fly sparging?

[aarontheprophet]

how many brew pots you got just one? because that looks cool.

[TheRig2005]

Awesome video sseries, very informative. But a question that has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with brewing.... you put at the end of the vid RIP Michael Jackson.... and the video was posted September 02, 2007... Yet Jackson didn't die till 2009.... wtf! lol.

[chrisknight000]

@TheRig2005

Wrong person. Google the name and beer.

[TheRig2005]

@chrisknight000 Ah, that clears up the confusion. I no longer have to think you have psychic powers.

[samm1809]

@chrisknight000 BAHAH! did you think you'd found nostradamus reincarnate?

[Grantman79]

be careful with PVC, it has lead in it (when heated it may get into liquid)...I use a stainless steel stove burner, and drilled holes in it...

[chrisknight000]

@Grantman79

CPVC (as I used to use) is fine. Although, agreed, PVC would be a bad choice.

[rippinlt]

Very impressive

[userwow]

Chris,

Nice series. Thanks. I'm getting an error on video 4 of 8. Tried it several times.

[CTSHOYT]

@userwow so am I .......I hope it can get fixed!! great set of videos.

[ruggedhills]

Hey Chris,

The last time I ran a batch of home brew (40 + years ago) I did it a whole bunch different. And fer whatever reasons, that I can't very well explain, it turned out pretty damned good.

However, I liked your approach (the down home basement/garage methodology, & using local hardware store shit & stuff) and intend to give it a serious attempt! Thank you, & +, I'll keep you apprised of and if I have any success.

Sincerely,

[davidgzach]

Good series. I'm brewing my first all grain this weekend and that was very helpful.

[bp1952]

why no glass carboys?

[anode505]

Good video. Read a bunch about it, but seeing adds in a bit of the little missing pieces.  Thanks.

[Fococlimber]

Seems like you have a pretty sweet home brewery, why no glass carboys? and thanks for this series, I am just about to start all-grain brewing and this really helped!

[madijj]

Great video. i am thinking about moving up from extract recipes to all grain. This was tremendously helpful. How can i find the conversion software that you used? Also, how come i didn't see you drinking beer in any of your video?

[madijj]

Great video. i am thinking about moving up from extract recipes to all grain.  This was tremendously helpful. How can i find the conversion software that you used? Also, how come i didn't see you drinking beer in any of your video?

[NeoMarcoPolo]

Awesome video, and just 'cause you were wondering: spent grain makes a great addition to horse feed.

[mark094611]

Thanks for the videos.

I'm just starting out (again - after 15 yrs)

mark

[caseyjww]

Chris-

Is there a chance that i can get the recipe for the blonde you made here? mainly the strike/ grain absorbtion/ sparge water amounts?

[chrisknight000]

@caseyjww

homebrewtalk.c om/f66/chris-knights-blonde-al­e-71751/

[tsmi37]

Great video!!!! I am currently in the kit phase of my brewing and getting ready to take the next step. This has helped to give me an idea of what I need to get started. Thank you for your time in putting this together.

[WeAreDevo456]

@chrisknight000:

Interesting choice of music - "Long Division" by Fugazi. One of that band's two vocalists, Ian MacKaye, is straightedge.

Deliberately going for irony?

[Bonaireboy85]

Very well put together tutorial. I was just thinking that when you added your ph stabilizer, I have read that it is better to add it to the water before you add the grain.  It makes it easier to ensure it's fully mixed in too. Either way well done.

[HighlandGames4ever]

Chris,

Awesome video series. I am about to begin my brew "hobby" and will start with exract brewing, but your video series certainly "demistified" the AG process. Thanks for you time and effort into making th series. BTW your 4th clip in the series is not working, fortunately the highlight at the beginning of each video (nice touch BTW) prety much summarized the fourth clip.

[strawalker]

Great videos!

[k3nnyr0g3rs]

Awesome. This was a great video to really explain the all grain brewing process. I've been extract brewing, but I'm curious about AG... seems like all the veterans are AG brewers. It requires more equipment and time, but you're very meticulous in your craft so I'm sure it's worth it in the end.

Happy Brewing. Cheers!

[eatmelibs]

Great video's, Mr. Knight. I'm wanting to start brewing and have purchased a book by John Palmer for a good guide. It's a great book, by the way. I haven't got a "favorite" beer but one of the few I really like is Sierra Nevada Pale in which I would like to brew something similar. Anyway, thanks for posting these video's, they're very informative.

[purplemonkey0]

i just made my first batch of all grain it looks awsome its now in primary

[Kevindad123]

ALL GRAIN ALL THE WAY. Thanks for the video(s). Home Brew is more than just brewing great beer. Member of Bock here in Central Kentucky. Good Luck

Kevin

[oxman0313]

If you need a bigger pot, convert a full size keg to a kettle. And if you through your spent grains in the garden or a compost bin they will be well served.

[Stazh1697]

Great videos Chris, but next time make longer video parts :)

[fbi365]

Thanks for the tut. Very well done. Do you ever smell or taste off flavors from all of the plastic you are useing.  It seems like putting all that hot water in the plastic might screw it up...

[cutterschoicenotmine]

Very good video, looking at graduating from pre hopped, pretty rubbish wort mixture tmoz to this way,.

[jkc0122]

Chris, would it be possile to get a copy of your beer brewing video? I dont know how or if i can download from this site.

[chillz27]

youtube downloader, google it

[efterklang732]

RIP Michael Jackson.

[ballsthatclank]

All that work for 50 bottles of beer?

Hmm...

[bluejays1945]

haha i no it seems crazy but to have your own beer and have it your way makes all the work worth it

[soadj28]

It's so worth it.

[tainterlakeisgreen]

It's worth it for me! Making anything for yourself gives you a lot of satisfaction and it makes you a more interesting person in general!

[RighteousFire]

It might be better for you to take a gravity reading BEFORE you add yeast to the beer, just in case there is yeast in your sample it will throw off your numbers.

But, awesome videos. very well edited. Some of the audio is out of sync but all in all I liked it alot.

[Snevey]

Not necessarily true... A lot of brewers, including myself, pull a sample for the hydrometer with the yeast mixed in and then save that sample in a 12 oz beer bottle with an airlock on it. Then you just use the fermenting beer from the 12 oz bottle for future gravity readings, no more worrying about contaminating your brew by taking hydro readings...

[emoneyblue]

Thanks so much Chris, I must say that I learned more from your videos, than the one I paid $17.95 for a all grain video. If this was on a pay video, you'd be rich. Thx

[ben556473]

Hello Chris, I'm just about to start brewing from grain in old blighty. Using 5.5kg Golden Promise and White Labs Trappist Ale yeast WLP500. Thought I'd try ale like it used to be before hops! Thanks very much for the impotus.

[tydogg]

Why two packs of yeast?

[pallybynight]

as mentioned before... he is using a yeast that typically required a starter to "colonize" effiently into the wort. He adds two packs to make sure the yeast take hold quickly, and dont get beaten to the party with "nastys" that also want to eat your sugary batch.

[tydogg]

I'd be awfully skeptical on how possible that really could be. I've never heard of a yeast strain so weak that one whole smack pack couldn't inoculate five gallons of wort... but... to each their own of course...

[RighteousFire]

A gravity of 1.048 would be 12 degrees Plato meaning he would need 12 million cells of yeast per milliliter to start with for proper fermentation, and a package of Wyeast Activator only creates 6 million cells per milliliter so exactly 2 packages would be spot on for his needs.

[tydogg]

Again... After dozens of excellent tasting batches of brew produced from one Wyeast package, im skeptical that you'd see any results much greater than maybe a few hours shaved off your primary fermentation time... I don't care how explosive a fermentation is, I wouldn't shorten the time on my lagers or ales because I was using more yeast. Totally my preference, but thanks for the info. All the best... Ty...

[northernjerry]

Excellent tutorial, Chris. Why do you like the plastic fermenting buckets instead of glass carboys?

[munnsl]

Great job on the series! It really helps to see the process from start to finish. At first I wasn't sure if all grain brewing was for me, but now I know I can do it! Thanks for the inspiration!

[dbmrhi]

Nice vid C but you need to get a bigger boil kettle.

[Snevey]

Why? It looks like he did just fine with what he had...

[RatkoUSA]

Michael Jackson would be proud.

[Jawb0x]

nice vids Chris. Always nice to see a fellow brewers/fugazi fan.

[BEC26]

Hiya Chris

How long from start to finish was it???

Cheers from Australia

[linusstick]

Genious. I watched your whole series and have rewatched them many times. Awesome job and great inspiration to jump into all grain.

[givemaboot]

Chris, Thank you. I have done my fourth AG, and I needed to see the whole process by someone who has done it before. I still have alot to learn, but you series helps! Thanks

[monty3777]

Great vids, bra!

[Dutzman]

Hi Chris.

Very nice and informative series, great job.

I wonder did your PVC filter/strainer ever melt ?

Your target water temp was 165 F , PVC melts at 175 F

If not I'll consider making one of PVC next time.

I also noticed that when you put the second pack of Yeast in, there (almost) dripped a bit of sanitizer in the fermenter, I hope that didn't make it in ? :)

How was the beer eventually ?

Cheers

[chrisknight000]

Its not PVC, its CPVC.

Starsan dripping in is nothing to worry about. Its no rinse. Read up on it.

The beer is/was great!

[Fococlimber]

@Dutzman I just started using starsan its pretty cool, no rinse, not like bleach wont change the flavor.

[Flightle]

Chris, first of all... Kick ass basement for brewing. I live in an apartment and brewing beer out on a backside walk makes me look like im cranking out some Meth... That aside, I'm dying for a sink basin, trash can, wash and dry rack and storage area that's all in the same area. Very nice job on the brew... I have the exact same cooler but I have two. One for the fly-sprinkle sparge. I did my first batch sparge the other day and it was so easy I might never fly sparge again. Anyways, great brew!

[bmrkharless]

just watched, great job. I've heard that first wort hopping helps prevent boil overs. Also if you take your OG reading before you pitch your yeast you can freeze or bottle that small amount of wort and save it for culturing yeasts from another bottle of beer. Just use the small amount you've saved as a baby starter for a week or so and then decant and use in a regular starter.

p.s.- loved the kegging video, just picked up a ball-lock corny. looking forward to having draft 24/7.

[chilzwel]

Thanks for the series. I am going to feel alot more comfortable with my first all-grain now.

[marthajessie]

Basically the way I do it also. Nice and simple and it works fine.

Nice to see someone keep it clean all the way through also.

Tony

[Jaysus145]

that was awesome - thanks!

[chrisknight000]

Your welcome... :)

[clarkrice]

Chris,

Great series. Just a question. Isn't it better to take your gravity reading prior to pitching the yeast? Seems like the yeast in suspension would throw off your gravity reading a bit?

Thanks, I'm looking forward to the kegging vids!

[chrisknight000]

Not really. 10 minutes after pitching the yeast hasn't even started the fermentation process yet. You still have lag time. A reading at this time will give you an accurate starting gravity. I wouldn't wait hours or a day or anything like that though...

[mcopado]

Thanks Chris,

You really took the mystery/fear out of All Grain for me. Excellent series.

[kozydogg]

I meant 66-70* F is higher than I like...

[kozydogg]

you need a Fermenator!! oh, and like someone suggested below, and even though you regulate temps for your lagers, I would suggest regulating temps for all ales aswell. 66-77 F is still a bit high for ales (in my opinion); usually I prefer to ferment ales between 58-64 F.

Nice Vids tho!

[chrisknight000]

I'll give that a shot.

[Way69Fast]

All i can say is cheers!!!! you got a hell of a talent buddy

[gorillapower]

DAMN you are the cleanest person I have ever seen (refering to keg vids as well)! I think my batch I just did caught TB, it was quite a messy affair....

[cap666666]

Thanks Cris. I have not tried all grain but am considering it. your videos are excellent motivation. hw does all graain affect the flavor orer the malt extract?

[kath2098]

thanks for this series, I am taking my bjcp test after months of study but zero all grain experience. this visual is so much better than anything i've been reading

[MadLuplin]

Great series man. Your making great beer I bet.

Just want to pass on some advice. If you think your making great beer now, get a fridge with a temp controller and manage your fermentation temps, your beer will be even better! The difference is amazing!

Personally I no longer secondary. I do a primary in glass 10-14 days and keg and age a bit, depending on style.

Brew strong man!

[chrisknight000]

The yellow freezer to the left of the kegerator is for temp controlling lagers. I don't "control" the temps for ales.  My basement stays 66-70 degrees year round...

[OPE08]

Excellent stuff Chris, nice to see that there is somebody out there more anal about cleanliness than me! This series is exactly what i expected to find on youtube when i first joined, and yet there were none, glad to see people are finally making good vids on this subject.

Cheers!!

[jgmrazek]

This was an awesome series, man. It was great to watch somebody's technique!

[chrisknight000]

Thanks! Yeah... I love watching how others go about it... :)

[squidjuicejones]

VERY SIMPLE AND INFORMATIVE,THANX

[chrisknight000]

No prob... It was fun... I need to do a video with more calculations involved...

[mmmipa]

Awesome videos Chris.Let us know how the blonde ale turns out.

[chrisknight000]

It turned out great! The flaked maize really brought out the American wyeast 1056. Lots of American beer brewers (BMC) use corn so most people can relate to this beer...

[bluejeanqueen000]

Rock on, Bro.

Will you have any ready for me next week?

-your sister

[chrisknight000]

I never check comments or youtube mail... man I had a ton... There is still about 1 gallon left... C-mon up & bring Gary! Still have about 3 gallons of the sweet brown left... Brewing 10 gallons this weekend. Adam wants a stout & the Cream ale is a favorite of most people...

[unfun72]

man, thanks for the videos.. they were all awesome!

[planetscott1]

Nice homage to Michael Jackson at the end.

Thanks.