Nut Brown Ale - All Grain Homebrew

[mugelerm]

Very interesting video! Great to see the process when thinking about taking the plunge into homebrewing. Will most likely start with extracts, we will see though.

the subtitles and music keep it more interesting and easier to follow.

[myopiate2020]

What a great concept--like performance art.

[chazballz]

"I hate this part of the song." Don't worry, no one is questioning your sexuality.

[chazballz]

Great song, nice video.

[nayrb0507]

great vid. brew on,man. brew on

[nocluehomebrew]

Incubus Rules!

Great video thanks! The info in the subtitles is more effective than trying to talk through the process!

[emiliano17ar]

og??

[lbmbrew]

@emiliano17ar

Honestly don't remember. This video is over 2 years old. Sorry.

[Amishexmachina]

Out of sheer curiosity, why were you straining the wort when pouring it into the fermenter?

[lbmbrew]

To strain the hops out of the wort. I now do a whirlpool before I drain my wort from the boil kettle.

[Amishexmachina]

I see. Also, while I'm on the topic; is that an aluminum (with a passive oxidation layer, natch) brew kettle I spy?

[lbmbrew]

It was a pot that I brewed beer in a couple of times until I got my stainless kettle. I would recommend using stainless over aluminum.

[Amishexmachina]

I actually don't mind Aluminum. You'd get more aluminum in an antacid tablet than in a batch made using an aluminum pot, and it's really a non-issue with the oxidation layer. I use stainless for my kettle, but I still use aluminum to heat my strike water. Takes less time.

Oh, and ever used a heat stick? Use that and you'd save cash on propane.

[lbmbrew]

I'm currently building a Brutus 10. I'm looking into installing a heat stick in the HLT. Then I can set it on a timer and my strike water is ready to go when I wake up. That will be a mod I make after I finish the build.

[Amishexmachina]

Good luck with that. I imagine that'll make your workflow (pun unintended) a hell of a lot easier.

Re: Heat stick; It's really night and day in terms of ease of use. My friend that went all-electric. We live in New York City and propane can be a huge hassle (IE you can only get exchanges and transportation is iffy without a car, and gas is pretty damn expensive and only sold in inconvenient Industrial parts of the city). He uses heat sticks to no ill effect in his converted-keg kettle.

[lbmbrew]

That is correct sir. It helps out when your pushing the limits of your boil kettle.

[QXZASX]

Is that water in the spray bottle? Interesting technique. I assume to keep the bubbles down during the hot-break so the kettle doesnt overflow.

[eyepatchinc]

oh i have a question. what are you spraying at the boil at 4:15 and so on? just water? this isn't a method I'm familiar with.

[lbmbrew]

All grain brewing is not hard at all. Just be ready for a long brew day. I'm spraying water at that time. It helps with boilover, but it has to be used in conjunction with adjusting the burner's flame.

[eyepatchinc]

how'd the beer turn out?

[lbmbrew]

This was my first all grain batch. It turned out ok. looking back at this video, I should have mashed closer to 150-151 and I should have boiled longer to bring the volume down. All in all, it wasn't a bad beer, but based on this video and what I now know about brewing, I didn't do it justice.

[eyepatchinc]

i see. i'm still brewing with extracts, hop additions etc, but havent gone to all grain yet. your video makes it look easy. thanks for sharing.

[IgZeppa]

nice vid,, whats the first song??

[lbmbrew]

To Be Young by Ryan Adams

This song was also at the end of the movie Accepted.

[jrsunkmail]

Hey man what a great video. I was a little concerned at first with no commentary, but it was a really good video. Anyway i haven't ever used that spray bottle method to prevent boil over, and it looked great. I assume it was just water in their? Also the iodine test was the first i had seen. What was that test? Thanks I have extract brewed 6 batches and will hopefully soon be AG brewing to THX

[lbmbrew]

Yeah, it's just water. Between that and turning the heat down, you will not get a boil over. The #1 thing is to be prepared for it. Once the temp reaches 200 degrees F, it's soon to come. The iodine test is called a starch conversion test. I believe you can also use Iodophor.

[gwan79]

That's a great way you poured that cooled wort into the fermenter! Not to mention dangerous! Great vid though, a lot easier to read all that text than to listen to my ramblings in my video. Bruiser is hella cool. And you ended up with more than 5gal didn't you? A great way to showcase your 2nd all grain batch! You must be even more badass by now! Keep it up mate.

[Jboxton]

More Bruiser! More Bruiser!

[ken2cart1]

Great video man, I am going to be making my first all grain batch next week. How did u make your mash tun/ lauter tun?

[lbmbrew]

It's a manifold made of high temp. PVC. it works OK, but I want to upgrade to copper. I'm doing an all grain belgian pale ale this weekend, so good luck to both of us. Hope the video helps and let me know how it goes.

[ThaTruDutchMasta]

Great choice on the second song, good video

[cjoklo]

Cool AG video. Did you have any problem with the primary fermentation? You filled that up really close to the brim. Did you put on a blowoff tube?

[lbmbrew]

Yeah, I used a blow off tube. I ended up with 6 gal instead of 5.5 at the beginning of fermentation. Guess I should have boiled more vigorously, or shouldn't have sparged as much as I did. Didn't have any problems though.

[gglwebster]

Good show man, good show. I'm making a nut brown ale from a kit off Northern Brewer, RIGHT NOW. I'm actually waiting for my strike water to come up as I type this. It'll be my first all grain (with one failed partial under my belt). Anyway, thought I'd do a search on YouTube and your video is great, hope to see more from ya buddy.

[lbmbrew]

Thanks Man, I missed my OG by a couple of points, I think I sparged a little too much. It should have been 1044. This was my 2nd all grain batch. I think its going to turn out ok though. It's in secondary and I plan on bottling it next weekend. Mistakes will happen, just learn from them. Good luck on your brew! Let me know how it turns out.