All Grain Homebrew with Geoff Wan

[hoobietube]

Nice video! Love the cabbage soup.

[radix7508]

I use multiple nylon filter bags to keep pellet hops from particle contaminating my plate chiller, it works well.

[gwan79]

@fatsachs I would love a power drilled powered grinder. Unfortunately, a proper grain mill costs at least $200 so I will continue to use this POS Victoria Grain Mill. My wife won't let me part with $200 for something like that

[dvdfrnzwbr]

Only single guys are allowed to do wort boils on the stove top.

[gwan79]

@dvdfrnzwbr Yes they are. I am married now. I do wort boils while she's asleep. Which means I get up much earlier to mash n sparge. Otherwise, it's on the Turkey Fryer outside.

[gwan79]

@dvdfrnzwbr Yup. I made this video before I was married. I made this video for the girl I ended up marrying. And she doesn't let me do stove top boils anymore...

[Iextasy23]

@dvdfrnzwbr ..lol my gf has no problem with it, as long as i make cider batches occasionally!

[bobby1772406]

@dvdfrnzwbr haha well Im the cook of the house anyway so she doesnt get any say lol

[Telycaster1]

Thanks for the vid. It has taken some worry out of going to an all grain brewing. I love cabbage soup too...

[gwan79]

@Telycaster1 all grain brewing is manageable! Plus, you can cook a whole bunch of other stuff while you're doing it.

[brettwasbtd]

Do you have your pot straddled over two burners? If not, how long does it take to bring to a boil?

[gwan79]

@brettwasbtd I don't remember. 30-45min? depends on how much heat your burners put out. 

[gabriel196938]

hy geoff, please tell how many meters of tube do u use to make the wort coller, thanks, very good video.

[geoffwan]

@gabriel196938 I bought it at the homebrew store. Sorry man. 20 ft maybe? The bigger the better, I suppose.

[zodiak3000]

how do you do the whirlpool? can you just take a sanitized spoon and swirl the wort in circles for a few minuets? i wanna try not using hop bags, but also not deal w/ the mess of hops in the fermenter..

[geoffwan]

@zodiak3000 Yup, just exactly how you said it. Ditching the bags and throwing the hops wholly in would give you better hop utilization, and you'll end up needing less hops for your bitterness.

[gwan79]

@geoffwan using pelletized hops would also improve your hop utilization, but filtering them out can be a challenge!

[gwan79]

Bottling bucket works ok as a hot liquor tank. I do the continuous sparge for at least 2 hours and my efficiency is between 75-85%. Batch sparging is quicker but is less efficient. But efficiency is only part of the big picture

[Otterisme]

How has the bottling bucket worked for you? Did you insulate it to keep the heat high? What efficient % did you get with it?

[geoffwan]

@Otterisme I insulate with some blankets. With a slow sparge I have gotten over 80% efficiency. I now monitor what comes out, and I'll stop once the gravity is 3plato or 1.010

[gbluesrocker]

thanks for your reply and time!

[gabriel196938]

nice vid, looks a good stout beer, whats about the flavour?

[gbluesrocker]

hello, could you tell me how much sparge water your useing?

[gwan79]

about 5 gallons in the bucket, though the last 1/2 - 1 gallon usually doesn't drain out. So it's more actually like 4-4.5gal. i find that a nice slow sparge over 2-3 hours can get me a very nice yield.

[meddler69]

Canadian???

[gwan79]

yes!

[meddler69]

Thought so, your accent gave you away

[chrisanderson100]

Great Videos! It was great getting to meet you at the Fair. I have not got to redo my beer yet, but got the new yeast and am planning on doing it this weekend. I will let you know how it turns out if its any good I will save you some.

[skeeterhmcr]

great vid

[murf1916]

Hey Geoff great vid. How about the recipe for the cabbage soup

[unfun72]

Very nice. first time ive seen a full boil of almost 7 gallons on a kitchen stove. I was always under the impression most kitchen stoves would not be able to bring it up to a boil.

Also, your fly sparging technique is a little different than what ive always seen done, but hey, if it works for you. Awesome! Id be curious what kind of efficiency your getting :)

Brew on!

[gwan79]

Thanks for watching! Kitchen stoves CAN bring anything to a boil with enough time. It's a gas burner, which helps.

Yeah, I wouldn't consider it a try fly sparge since there's no water "sprayed" all over - but I do manage to keep an inch layer of water above the grain bed at all times. Sometimes more if I'm not draining fast enough. My efficiency isn't that great, usually between 65-75%. But the beers taste pretty good and I've picked up a couple awards so...

[unfun72]

Hey then you must be doing something right! If the beers taste good, then that's all that matters.

Congrats on the awards too!

[tkappers]

As a newbie to brewing, I like the continuous sparge method that you use. Do you just boil a few degrees hotter of strike water to compensate for the heat loss? Great video.

[gwan79]

Yeah, you can do that. You can also insulate your hot liquor tank with some blankets. Or use a proper insulated cooler with an adjustable spigot. Many different ways of achieving the same outcome.

[billyd44444]

DUDE A++++ vid i love that mashtun were did you get it?

[gwan79]

Some awesome place in Youngstown that carried a wide varierty of homebrew and win supplies. The shopkeeper was a bit weird though.

[jadep76]

Nice work... The cabbage soup looked good too! :p

[babykbear]

Well done on putting together your video, looks like a very time consuming but patient process!

Even so, funny at 4:32 with the surprise over-boil. hehe