Just found your vid. SWMBO got me a starter kit for my 40th as I keep wanting to get into brewing my own. Only done kits so far but as funds allow will build to all grain. There are so many US based vids about homebewing on Youtube it's hard to find any showing what's readily available in the UK (electric boilers specifically) so this is REALLY useful to me as a reference. Cheers!
I'd like to see more detail on your brewing bucket, and how to incorporate and control the heating elements; it also makes since to build the brew cattle out of an insulated cooler to use less energy. Thx again for the video.
I am not, but I have browsed the forum there a few times.
Taking a bit of a brewing sabbatical atm, though I have planted a hop vine in my garden last month (First Gold) and the shoots have popped out the ground now! Hope to have my own home-grown supply of hops by the end of next summer!
I am curious. What did you use to clean off the verdigris that forms on your Wort Chiller? I know an oxidized copper wort chiller can add unwanted nastiness to your wort if its not cleaned.
Damn I'm dizzy after watching that but its one of the most entertaining yet informative vids on youtube. Doesn't make me want to switch to fly sparging from batch sparging though
As a 20 yr homebrew vet I assure you that your video was not only informative, but in a real life way. The stuck sparge and the mess on the floor had me giggling..the broken thermometer was familiar, and the weather altering your lager temp is typical.. You my friend have captured a brew day !!- Peace
As a 20 yr homebrew vet I assure you that your video was not only informative, but in a real life way. The stuck sparge and the mess on the floor had me giggling..the broken thermometer was familiar, and the weather altering your lager temp is typical.. You my friend have captured a brew day !!- Peace
hi i have only ever done beer kits rather than all grain and i found your video interesting and really informative and it has got me thinking about giving this a go. have you brewed kits before and if you have how do they compare to all grain?
sorry for not responding sooner. I have brewed a couple of kits but it was so long ago it would be unfair for me to compare (and I never tried to newer higher quality kits).
In the 21st century there're these things called shops, which sell beer ready-made. The beer comes in glass bottles and metal cans and is reasonably priced in this day and age. The only equipment required by yourself is a large glass and a bottle opener....
you're not seriously telling us it's worth all that effort????
@AnarchisticAttitude I was actually just poking fun. I'm pretty fussy with beer and buy the more expensive bottled types, and I don't imagine I could get it right myself so I'm not inclined to try it out. Each to their own I suppose.
@houghhill im rather fussy too which is why i tried micro brewing granted i fucked it up the first time so im not gunna bother.... it is very fun though
'sparging' sounds like it involves big hairy pub blokes with intense staring eyes, using their guts to wrestle each other away from the precious beer..im guessing most people think that when they hear the word for the first time?
gonna give home brewing a try soon, must be great to enjoy your own beer.
You need to stop walking men, you look like you're shooting bear gryll style, only these time it's called man vs beer! I realy felt dizzy for a minute there!
Make mmore of thesevideos , this is cool! Make a more descriptive video on exactly what you have, where you got it, any every detail, or good websites to teach someone how to do this, because it is very interesting! I dont really care for beer, but I'd enjoy making it a lot, lol.
Great video. I've brewed beer using the kits, but really fancy having a go with the full mash. Do you think I should try the half mash first before going for the full? It looks complicated. Why did you boil the water to remove the hardness? I thought that hard water made the best beer.
Great video. I've brewed beer using the kits, but really fancy having a go with the full mash. Do you think I should try the half mash first before going for the full? It looks complicated. Why did you boil the water to remove the hardness? I thought that hard water made the best beer.
Personally i went straight from a kit to full mash. Mashing is simpler than I maybe made it sound, you can get decent results as long as the temperature is in the right range (i was overloading my equipment here, if you use less grain then you can add hot or cold water to adjust). You can also make a very simple mash tun with two simple cylindrical fermenting bins (the stackable ones) - you simply drill dozens of holes inside one bin then stand it in the other which needs a...
...tap on the bottom and then lag everything with hot water tank lagging. i used this arrangement for years.
As to water hardness. Yes, pale ales require hard water and milds and stouts soft water. However, the hardness needs to come from magnesium and calcium sulphate, not calcium carbonate which we get a lot of here and drops out as limescale when you boil the water.
What sort of start-up costs will I be looking at? PS Forwarding your vid to a home-brewing friend of mine, he's in the "Kit Stage" of brewing and this will inspire him to go all-in.
I think a basic polyprop boiler is about £40 and you can make a msh tun stacking two fermenting bins (the outer one with a tap the inner one with holes drilled in the bottom) and insulating them). Other than that some bits of tubing, thermometers and a hydrometer, a fermenting bin (you can use the outer one of your mash tun if you make the one as above) and then a keg (the stainless ones are pricey btw). Maybe about £80-100 - for double that you can have a much better...
It takes about five or six hours on a brew day (though you have two 90 min periods where you can do something else), then maybe a week to ferment then a month to come into condition.
Wow... and meth labs are illegal. ;DD Nice setup. Brewing to the max. All I do is dumb a bag of something in a barrel and add water, then watch the clock. :D
The problem is, unless you drink 20 pints a day CO2 is the only way you will keep your beer fresh over the time it takes you to drink it. It is the same reqason I don't use a beer engine, it holds half a pint in the pump assembly and I'd effectively need to waste half a pint every day - fine in a pub where the beer is flowing but in a home situation where you have a pint a day it is a hell of a waste!
I LOVE my "hops and barley." Just ask the company who makes "carlsburg special." LOL. I've had enough of that while in England that I should own part of the company by now.
I went to give you your well deserved "thumbs up," and noticed that aside from the 132 others that have also given you "thumbs up," one person gave you a "thumbs down." I'm a bit baffled about WHY someone would give you a "thumbs down" on a video like this. I could see if it were a video on some controversial issue they disagreed with, but who would disagree with beer brewing? Strange!
I put the StarSan in a spray bottle when I make wine. It makes it very easy to spray everything down. And it makes it very easy to sterilize tubing. I just spray into the tubing and rinse it when I'm ready for it.
Have you ever tried alternative hops? Seems to have worked pretty well on a couple of my experimental batches. I tried wormwood a bout 4 months back and put it through a bloody long slow brewing process. Racked it off and filtered it for the last time yestarday and it smells bloody awsome, a month to tasteing yet though, the real moment of truth.
It came out ok but a change in weather messed things up a bit and made it impossible to keep the lager down at the correct kinds of maturation temperatures: I was left with a tasty brew but not really true to type.
h8uall66 All-grain. Bravo! I was worried that you were going to show us a malt extract demonstration. Malt extract brewing is basically slightly more complicated tea brewing, in my opinion. I'm constructing a single-tier automated system right now in my garage. This will be the second one I've built. I sold the first one after I got out of the Marines because I had no where to put it. I'll film the construction process and the first batch.
I will look forward to it. I have seen the rigs some of you Americans have, you seem to be able to get access to such a range of bits of equipment and so cheaply!!! I'd love to have a full series of racking with in-situ stainless gear but I can't really justify the cost.
I am subbed to you but when you do a brewing vid pm me as well so i don't miss it m8!
Good point on sterilization. I've seen people that sterilize anything that comes in contact with any ingredient of the wort, no matter what part of the process. Personally, I only sterilize my fermenters and air-locks, and any equipment I use to transfer cooled liquid from one vessel to another. The boil will kill anything! And of course my bottles and kegs.
Hmmm you are so right about the smell of hops, I haven't done a brew for years but having seen this I think I might have to sort me bits and bobs out.
I have no interest in brewing, I don't even enjoy alcohol. I don't know why I started watching it but it was brilliant. The artistry, science and engineering made this video worth watching.
wow fantastic..... though not so fantastic how all these small breweries are getting swallowed up and then their brews get switched to some giant brewery miles away :(
"Like a bloody...like a noob!", haha. Great video, your hobby is much tidier than mine, shaping surfboards. But I get sweet set waves, and you get a nice beer out of it! Seriously, this was fascinating, I didn't know there were so many technical issues to homebrewing. Cheers!
Yes, it is. Was a pretty meaningless facility before but with the interface changes it seems to be the only way to go beyond just having your bare name there.
@noelplum99 Yeah and of course those bastards made it a partner only thing.. grr. Thanks for the reply and for the informative video.. always wondered about brewing beer.
Damn. I accidentally pressed the thumbs down. Sorry.KevinSolway, below, wants you to go through the entire process, so I guess you're going to have to take him to the toilet later.
@333holly333 Yeah, it probably did. I wouldn't doubt it. YouTube's programmers, as usual, have assured themselves a job for the future; fixing their screwups. ;) Thanks a bunch.
Damn. I accidentally pressed the thumbs down. Sorry.KevinSolway, below, wants you to go through the entire process, so I guess you're going to have to take him to the toilet later.
Wow. How long to you have to maintain the 63 degrees? It seems like such a narrow temperature range, and once you start adding things, you're going to alter the temperature. I've never seen it done via the actual process of malting. I used to just buy cans of malt extract. Tasty stuff. Been a long time since I've tried brewing beer. Didnt' use hops though. Thanks for sharing this. Not boring. ;)
The cans of malt extract are usually pre-hopped though you can by it unhopped and then add your own (therefore just doing the boil stage and not the mash).
The temp is easy to maintain, the hard point is hitting it right, especially when your mash tun is so full (i need to buy and convert a slightly bigger cool box) because you have to estimate the temp drop in the water and dont have much room to add more water for corrections.
@noelplum99 Well, thanks very much, Jim. It was quite a pleasure observing the various ways you've jury-rigged everything to the point of functionality. I ran into problems when I did my brewing, but it may have to do with sanitizing; didn't know much about the chemicals to use. My parents used to make rhubarb wine. Hard work, but delightful results. Must be 40 years since I've had some rhubarb wine. (tearful reminiscence) Great presentation.
@KevinSolway P.S. I can't help but feel as though this video is not complete. How about showing the whole process right the way to the point of drinking it?
I have a cousin of a friend that brews alot of beer and enters contests with it. I've drank some of it, and it's not bad. After watching your video though, it seems a bit tedious and a bit complicated. You did a good job explaining the whole process by the way, noelplum. I'm afraid my past dealt more with planting, raising, and picking plants. You know, the kind of plants that one enjoys smoking at parties.
It is a lot of work if you don't enjoy doing it, certainly. I upgraded to the large white bins used here because it allowed me to double the size of my brews. I get about 70 pints from a brew now (I could get more if I brewed weaker beers) so the effort p[er pint is not too bad and I quite enjoy a brew day every so often.
My dad taught me how to brew beer when I turned 18. We both thought the law about having to be 21 to buy beer ridiculous. One of my favorite concoctions is blackberry mead. It's just water, crushed & strained blackberry juice, honey and yeast. It's simple and it's good.
All I've done is home made wine (and didn't even do it for myself lol) and I am just in awe of the effort you've put in! I'd really want to try your beer now :D
@xxxFaustusxxx Beer is the urine of the flying spaghetti monster in our religion. Atheists believe it will secure them a place in the stripper factory on the pirate ship where we'll sail for eternity. Duh.
@xxxFaustusxxx Yep. Good thing there's a beer brewing industry collectively worth hundreds of billions of dollars (supported solely by atheists) to help them escape. Not me, though. I watched your video about God's love and converted. Thanks!
Post more beer brewing videos!!!!!!!!
IllIIll 1 month ago
Just found your vid. SWMBO got me a starter kit for my 40th as I keep wanting to get into brewing my own. Only done kits so far but as funds allow will build to all grain. There are so many US based vids about homebewing on Youtube it's hard to find any showing what's readily available in the UK (electric boilers specifically) so this is REALLY useful to me as a reference. Cheers!
MrJohnABerry 4 months ago
@MrJohnABerry
Pleased you enjoyed it, makes it worthwhile :)
noelplum99 4 months ago
I'd like to see more detail on your brewing bucket, and how to incorporate and control the heating elements; it also makes since to build the brew cattle out of an insulated cooler to use less energy. Thx again for the video.
MrSchpankme 7 months ago
Good Video Buddy, are you a Jim's Beer Kit member?
GARYSMIFF 10 months ago
@GARYSMIFF
I am not, but I have browsed the forum there a few times.
Taking a bit of a brewing sabbatical atm, though I have planted a hop vine in my garden last month (First Gold) and the shoots have popped out the ground now! Hope to have my own home-grown supply of hops by the end of next summer!
noelplum99 10 months ago
@noelplum99 GET YOURSELF ON THERE,its real people like you that change the way we do it,again great vid.
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@noelplum99 GET YOURSELF ON THERE,its real people like you that change the way we do it,again great vid.
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@noelplum99 GET YOURSELF ON THERE,its real people like you that change the way we do it,again great vid.
GARYSMIFF 10 months ago
I am curious. What did you use to clean off the verdigris that forms on your Wort Chiller? I know an oxidized copper wort chiller can add unwanted nastiness to your wort if its not cleaned.
mmmcbryde17 1 year ago
beer is close to you heart, and so is being a loser
phil89531 1 year ago
i love the use of the miter saw table... awesome
jmikes1derboy 1 year ago
Damn I'm dizzy after watching that but its one of the most entertaining yet informative vids on youtube. Doesn't make me want to switch to fly sparging from batch sparging though
chadjaja 1 year ago
Great work!
cmboyl02 1 year ago
As a 20 yr homebrew vet I assure you that your video was not only informative, but in a real life way. The stuck sparge and the mess on the floor had me giggling..the broken thermometer was familiar, and the weather altering your lager temp is typical.. You my friend have captured a brew day !!- Peace
axis714 1 year ago
As a 20 yr homebrew vet I assure you that your video was not only informative, but in a real life way. The stuck sparge and the mess on the floor had me giggling..the broken thermometer was familiar, and the weather altering your lager temp is typical.. You my friend have captured a brew day !!- Peace
axis714 1 year ago
hi i have only ever done beer kits rather than all grain and i found your video interesting and really informative and it has got me thinking about giving this a go. have you brewed kits before and if you have how do they compare to all grain?
TheSuperdiscobreaks 1 year ago
@TheSuperdiscobreaks
sorry for not responding sooner. I have brewed a couple of kits but it was so long ago it would be unfair for me to compare (and I never tried to newer higher quality kits).
noelplum99 1 year ago
@noelplum99 cheers i'm goin to go all grain, i think it would be more rewarding.
TheSuperdiscobreaks 1 year ago
Love this video! More Brewing vids PLZ :D
BrassknuckleRide 1 year ago
awesome vid. *steals your beer* mwah ha ha ha ha
kokorochris 1 year ago
In the 21st century there're these things called shops, which sell beer ready-made. The beer comes in glass bottles and metal cans and is reasonably priced in this day and age. The only equipment required by yourself is a large glass and a bottle opener....
you're not seriously telling us it's worth all that effort????
houghhill 1 year ago
@houghhill actually it is as microbrewing is pretty damn fun plus you can contrl the quality to a level they couldnt imagine at a bigger factory
AnarchisticAttitude 1 year ago
@AnarchisticAttitude I was actually just poking fun. I'm pretty fussy with beer and buy the more expensive bottled types, and I don't imagine I could get it right myself so I'm not inclined to try it out. Each to their own I suppose.
houghhill 1 year ago
@houghhill im rather fussy too which is why i tried micro brewing granted i fucked it up the first time so im not gunna bother.... it is very fun though
AnarchisticAttitude 1 year ago
'sparging' sounds like it involves big hairy pub blokes with intense staring eyes, using their guts to wrestle each other away from the precious beer..im guessing most people think that when they hear the word for the first time?
gonna give home brewing a try soon, must be great to enjoy your own beer.
excellent vids noelplum99, thx for sharing
mrlowdangle 1 year ago
Glory to the arts mate!
nige4958 1 year ago
Hi Noel. I'm a homebrwer myself. IPA and Imperial Stout are my favorites.
SiriusMined 1 year ago
You need to stop walking men, you look like you're shooting bear gryll style, only these time it's called man vs beer! I realy felt dizzy for a minute there!
bonkersblock 1 year ago
You going to show us your grow room next vid noel ?:P
yavanna1969 1 year ago
watch out for the green cops after wasting all that water. LOL, great video, much better than mine.
conduct623 1 year ago
Aaaaaah, I've always wanted to brew my own beer. I favorited so when I do, I will be able to look back. Plus I love all your videos honestly, lol.
XxMetalManxX 1 year ago
brew bro u could have recycled the cooling water from the copper coils you just wasted it,cheerrrssss
vibinmt 1 year ago
You have the perfect voice for a cooking show.
Mathannix 1 year ago
Make mmore of thesevideos , this is cool! Make a more descriptive video on exactly what you have, where you got it, any every detail, or good websites to teach someone how to do this, because it is very interesting! I dont really care for beer, but I'd enjoy making it a lot, lol.
SucculentJuniper 1 year ago
Great video. I've brewed beer using the kits, but really fancy having a go with the full mash. Do you think I should try the half mash first before going for the full? It looks complicated. Why did you boil the water to remove the hardness? I thought that hard water made the best beer.
dominickearney 1 year ago
Great video. I've brewed beer using the kits, but really fancy having a go with the full mash. Do you think I should try the half mash first before going for the full? It looks complicated. Why did you boil the water to remove the hardness? I thought that hard water made the best beer.
dominickearney 1 year ago
@dominickearney
Personally i went straight from a kit to full mash. Mashing is simpler than I maybe made it sound, you can get decent results as long as the temperature is in the right range (i was overloading my equipment here, if you use less grain then you can add hot or cold water to adjust). You can also make a very simple mash tun with two simple cylindrical fermenting bins (the stackable ones) - you simply drill dozens of holes inside one bin then stand it in the other which needs a...
noelplum99 1 year ago
@noelplum99
...tap on the bottom and then lag everything with hot water tank lagging. i used this arrangement for years.
As to water hardness. Yes, pale ales require hard water and milds and stouts soft water. However, the hardness needs to come from magnesium and calcium sulphate, not calcium carbonate which we get a lot of here and drops out as limescale when you boil the water.
noelplum99 1 year ago
great video, thanks
olafurj 1 year ago
Interesting stuff, yempted to give that a go this summer. Cheers for the vid.
Sparks127 1 year ago
@Sparks127
Go for it, it's a great hobby!
noelplum99 1 year ago
@noelplum99
What sort of start-up costs will I be looking at? PS Forwarding your vid to a home-brewing friend of mine, he's in the "Kit Stage" of brewing and this will inspire him to go all-in.
Sparks127 1 year ago
@Sparks127
I think a basic polyprop boiler is about £40 and you can make a msh tun stacking two fermenting bins (the outer one with a tap the inner one with holes drilled in the bottom) and insulating them). Other than that some bits of tubing, thermometers and a hydrometer, a fermenting bin (you can use the outer one of your mash tun if you make the one as above) and then a keg (the stainless ones are pricey btw). Maybe about £80-100 - for double that you can have a much better...
noelplum99 1 year ago
@noelplum99
...set of equipment, mine was from hopandgrape (dot) co (dot) uk
noelplum99 1 year ago
@noelplum99
It's a tempter, beer has gone up to £1.52 a pint in my local.
Sparks127 1 year ago
Just of of curiosity (allthough you might mention it later)... F or C?
sp4zzer 1 year ago
@sp4zzer
Celcius
noelplum99 1 year ago
Good stuff. How long does the brewing process take, all told?
reyazul1218 1 year ago
@reyazul1218
It takes about five or six hours on a brew day (though you have two 90 min periods where you can do something else), then maybe a week to ferment then a month to come into condition.
noelplum99 1 year ago
Wow... and meth labs are illegal. ;DD Nice setup. Brewing to the max. All I do is dumb a bag of something in a barrel and add water, then watch the clock. :D
hamiel85 1 year ago
@hamiel85 dump* :E
hamiel85 1 year ago
Hmmm. Not sure about kegging it with CO2. Hand-pull is the proper way.
My all time favourite beer was Youngers No3. Now long gone I believe :(
Still do my best to keep Theakstons brewery in profit though :)
andwar99 1 year ago
@andwar99
The problem is, unless you drink 20 pints a day CO2 is the only way you will keep your beer fresh over the time it takes you to drink it. It is the same reqason I don't use a beer engine, it holds half a pint in the pump assembly and I'd effectively need to waste half a pint every day - fine in a pub where the beer is flowing but in a home situation where you have a pint a day it is a hell of a waste!
noelplum99 1 year ago
Can you do Crystal Meth next time?
ajuk1 1 year ago
I LOVE my "hops and barley." Just ask the company who makes "carlsburg special." LOL. I've had enough of that while in England that I should own part of the company by now.
Hereticbooks 1 year ago
I went to give you your well deserved "thumbs up," and noticed that aside from the 132 others that have also given you "thumbs up," one person gave you a "thumbs down." I'm a bit baffled about WHY someone would give you a "thumbs down" on a video like this. I could see if it were a video on some controversial issue they disagreed with, but who would disagree with beer brewing? Strange!
Hereticbooks 1 year ago
@Hereticbooks
Somebody mentioned it earlier, they apologised for clicking the wrong button hehe!
noelplum99 1 year ago
@noelplum99
Well, that makes sense then. LOL
Hereticbooks 1 year ago
I put the StarSan in a spray bottle when I make wine. It makes it very easy to spray everything down. And it makes it very easy to sterilize tubing. I just spray into the tubing and rinse it when I'm ready for it.
theoriginalSkooby 1 year ago
I've been doing my beer from extract ,but just can't get the taste i want ,may go to all grain .
sausage4mash 1 year ago
@sausage4mash
Give it a go S4M, it is actually a fairly forgiving process, as long as the water temp is in the right range you will get a result
noelplum99 1 year ago
Champion! Just Champion Lad!!!
martiangrundy 1 year ago
Have you ever tried alternative hops? Seems to have worked pretty well on a couple of my experimental batches. I tried wormwood a bout 4 months back and put it through a bloody long slow brewing process. Racked it off and filtered it for the last time yestarday and it smells bloody awsome, a month to tasteing yet though, the real moment of truth.
bloodyrediron 1 year ago
@bloodyrediron
Thinking back, I've used fuggles, cascade and first gold (and hallertau mittelfruh for a batch of lager i tried)
noelplum99 1 year ago
@noelplum99 Funky, how did the hallertau mittelfruh come out?
bloodyrediron 1 year ago
@bloodyrediron
It came out ok but a change in weather messed things up a bit and made it impossible to keep the lager down at the correct kinds of maturation temperatures: I was left with a tasty brew but not really true to type.
noelplum99 1 year ago
Personally i don't drink but i thought the video was very interesting. Hope you make a follow up after its fermented.
holdontoyourwig 1 year ago
Will we get to see the end result sometime?
AnarchyAnonymous 1 year ago
@AnarchyAnonymous
I might do a follow up of the fermenting and racking and then pull off the first pint. Will be a shorter vid tho, maybe 5 mins.
noelplum99 1 year ago
@noelplum99 Sounds cool, well done btw :)
AnarchyAnonymous 1 year ago
@noelplum99 Count me in as someone interesting in seeing the results, too. :)
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ultimateinfinite 1 year ago
This video was really interesting and hilarious, love the sarcastic commentary. I would to see some more videos like this.
ultimateinfinite 1 year ago
Someone should tell Mr Plum that he has been sold a tub of cat litter there.
ultimateinfinite 1 year ago
really really interesting.
DasAmericanAtheist 1 year ago
h8uall66 All-grain. Bravo! I was worried that you were going to show us a malt extract demonstration. Malt extract brewing is basically slightly more complicated tea brewing, in my opinion. I'm constructing a single-tier automated system right now in my garage. This will be the second one I've built. I sold the first one after I got out of the Marines because I had no where to put it. I'll film the construction process and the first batch.
h8uall66 1 year ago
@h8uall66
I will look forward to it. I have seen the rigs some of you Americans have, you seem to be able to get access to such a range of bits of equipment and so cheaply!!! I'd love to have a full series of racking with in-situ stainless gear but I can't really justify the cost.
I am subbed to you but when you do a brewing vid pm me as well so i don't miss it m8!
noelplum99 1 year ago
Good point on sterilization. I've seen people that sterilize anything that comes in contact with any ingredient of the wort, no matter what part of the process. Personally, I only sterilize my fermenters and air-locks, and any equipment I use to transfer cooled liquid from one vessel to another. The boil will kill anything! And of course my bottles and kegs.
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h8uall66 1 year ago
epic - must have BEER CREATION STATION!! LOL
HumanStrategy 1 year ago
This video is making me thirsty.
SmoothInstigator 1 year ago
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How long have you been a partner?
b1139 1 year ago
How long have you been a partner?
b1139 1 year ago
@b1139
a month or so
noelplum99 1 year ago
I bet that jeebus character couldnt do this , hmmm beer : D~~~
tekhiun 1 year ago
Hmmm you are so right about the smell of hops, I haven't done a brew for years but having seen this I think I might have to sort me bits and bobs out.
Rambleale 1 year ago
@Rambleale
Get em sorted and get brewing again my man!
noelplum99 1 year ago
I have no interest in brewing, I don't even enjoy alcohol. I don't know why I started watching it but it was brilliant. The artistry, science and engineering made this video worth watching.
thorungal 1 year ago
awesome! Do like, And I got the same camera, oh the odds.
ridderopaard 1 year ago
And to me home brewing was a few demijohns in the airing cupboard and my mother being angry with my dad for one of them exploding over the linen LOL
This is more a micro-brewery LOL
johncrwarner 1 year ago
i definitely wouldn't like cat shit in my beer either.
riseofatheism 1 year ago
I used to be a Maltster,
I worked for Shipstones Brewery before it got taken over by Scottish and Newcastle..
Great video...
spaceman300 1 year ago
@spaceman300
wow fantastic..... though not so fantastic how all these small breweries are getting swallowed up and then their brews get switched to some giant brewery miles away :(
noelplum99 1 year ago
@noelplum99 I did love my job at shipstones, but it was a really sad day when it got taken over. ;(
spaceman300 1 year ago
"Like a bloody...like a noob!", haha. Great video, your hobby is much tidier than mine, shaping surfboards. But I get sweet set waves, and you get a nice beer out of it! Seriously, this was fascinating, I didn't know there were so many technical issues to homebrewing. Cheers!
kern0099 1 year ago
Beer = Liquid bread :)
unixhead101 1 year ago
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great video, interesting stuff! Something I've always been interested in getting into, but I don't think it's likely these days...
roentgen571 1 year ago
great video, interesting stuff! Something I've always been interested in getting into, but I don't think it's likely these days...
roentgen571 1 year ago
noel is your little image up top a partner-only thing? must be because I don't see that option anywhere on my account... doh
pokerslut530 1 year ago
@pokerslut530
Yes, it is. Was a pretty meaningless facility before but with the interface changes it seems to be the only way to go beyond just having your bare name there.
noelplum99 1 year ago
@noelplum99 Yeah and of course those bastards made it a partner only thing.. grr. Thanks for the reply and for the informative video.. always wondered about brewing beer.
pokerslut530 1 year ago
Damn. I accidentally pressed the thumbs down. Sorry.KevinSolway, below, wants you to go through the entire process, so I guess you're going to have to take him to the toilet later.
RichardRoy2 1 year ago
@RichardRoy2 - I pressed thumbs up twice and I think it actually counted. So I cancelled your vote out. :D
333holly333 1 year ago
@333holly333 Yeah, it probably did. I wouldn't doubt it. YouTube's programmers, as usual, have assured themselves a job for the future; fixing their screwups. ;) Thanks a bunch.
RichardRoy2 1 year ago
@RichardRoy2 That's a good point...hmmm! Wouldn't put it past them, haha. :P
333holly333 1 year ago
Damn. I accidentally pressed the thumbs down. Sorry.KevinSolway, below, wants you to go through the entire process, so I guess you're going to have to take him to the toilet later.
RichardRoy2 1 year ago
Wow. How long to you have to maintain the 63 degrees? It seems like such a narrow temperature range, and once you start adding things, you're going to alter the temperature. I've never seen it done via the actual process of malting. I used to just buy cans of malt extract. Tasty stuff. Been a long time since I've tried brewing beer. Didnt' use hops though. Thanks for sharing this. Not boring. ;)
RichardRoy2 1 year ago
@RichardRoy2
The cans of malt extract are usually pre-hopped though you can by it unhopped and then add your own (therefore just doing the boil stage and not the mash).
The temp is easy to maintain, the hard point is hitting it right, especially when your mash tun is so full (i need to buy and convert a slightly bigger cool box) because you have to estimate the temp drop in the water and dont have much room to add more water for corrections.
noelplum99 1 year ago
@noelplum99 Well, thanks very much, Jim. It was quite a pleasure observing the various ways you've jury-rigged everything to the point of functionality. I ran into problems when I did my brewing, but it may have to do with sanitizing; didn't know much about the chemicals to use. My parents used to make rhubarb wine. Hard work, but delightful results. Must be 40 years since I've had some rhubarb wine. (tearful reminiscence) Great presentation.
RichardRoy2 1 year ago
In the states we call it the shine. I'm part of a legacy who knows just how much of a bastard george washington really was.
tiecuando 1 year ago
so what kind of sandwich did you get?
1tofallen 1 year ago
Here was me thinking you would be doing it with one of those brewing kits in a can, and wondering why the video was so long.
KevinSolway 1 year ago
@KevinSolway P.S. I can't help but feel as though this video is not complete. How about showing the whole process right the way to the point of drinking it?
KevinSolway 1 year ago
@KevinSolway
It is still fermenting but maybe that might be a follow up (a shorter one theough definitely!!)
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KevinSolway 1 year ago
I LOVE BEER and beer is good for you : )
wiker666 1 year ago
I have a cousin of a friend that brews alot of beer and enters contests with it. I've drank some of it, and it's not bad. After watching your video though, it seems a bit tedious and a bit complicated. You did a good job explaining the whole process by the way, noelplum. I'm afraid my past dealt more with planting, raising, and picking plants. You know, the kind of plants that one enjoys smoking at parties.
Enjoy your beer!
charlesfloyb 1 year ago
@charlesfloyb
It is a lot of work if you don't enjoy doing it, certainly. I upgraded to the large white bins used here because it allowed me to double the size of my brews. I get about 70 pints from a brew now (I could get more if I brewed weaker beers) so the effort p[er pint is not too bad and I quite enjoy a brew day every so often.
noelplum99 1 year ago
My dad taught me how to brew beer when I turned 18. We both thought the law about having to be 21 to buy beer ridiculous. One of my favorite concoctions is blackberry mead. It's just water, crushed & strained blackberry juice, honey and yeast. It's simple and it's good.
bamboo4tameshigiri 1 year ago
As an engineer myself and a beer lover, this is interesting! Very informative!!
gerjaison 1 year ago
Indeed everyone likes big jugs! :D
lettherebedots 1 year ago
must be a beer day.
FromOutsideTheBox 1 year ago
You want to open a micro-brewery and sell beer over the internet?
zarkoff45 1 year ago
All I've done is home made wine (and didn't even do it for myself lol) and I am just in awe of the effort you've put in! I'd really want to try your beer now :D
labrat882 1 year ago
cool video . i have been brewing for about 8 years. you should check out the brewing network dotcom , great info.
dragonhlm 1 year ago
I really enjoyed this. I've just moved from a flat to a house and you've given me a project to get me away from this cursed computer.
Cheers!
deefsound 1 year ago
@deefsound
Ahh, great stuff :)
noelplum99 1 year ago
i so want to taste that when it's ready :)
ncreep84 1 year ago
It's great to see other people's hobbies and interests outside of You Tube. Love the work space you've got there.
flyingfisbeefilms 1 year ago
I used to work in a brew house. Was a blast... but I never learned how to do the actual brewing. I was just a cook.
You made a lot of new words in this video hehe... barlyly would have been funny to hear you say ;) LOL
I love your set up... and you made me so fucking thirsty :)
tattooskin72 1 year ago
Great video Jim ! would love to taste the final product :-)
REDFTW 1 year ago
interesting but wouldn't have minded seeing the finished product
TheBenevolentPirate 1 year ago
@TheBenevolentPirate
It is still fermenting!
noelplum99 1 year ago
Looks like a Rube Goldberg machine waiting to happen.
JustaEropeanGuy 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Sad.. atheist has to drink to escape from the truth that God exists.
xxxFaustusxxx 1 year ago
@xxxFaustusxxx Beer is the urine of the flying spaghetti monster in our religion. Atheists believe it will secure them a place in the stripper factory on the pirate ship where we'll sail for eternity. Duh.
pokerslut530 1 year ago 10
@xxxFaustusxxx Sad.. Someone has to comment on a persons hobby video assulting his character. (by the way god doesnt exsist)
Zenithstrife 1 year ago 10
@xxxFaustusxxx Yep. Good thing there's a beer brewing industry collectively worth hundreds of billions of dollars (supported solely by atheists) to help them escape. Not me, though. I watched your video about God's love and converted. Thanks!
Sideways0J 1 year ago
no actually we have to drink to get away from the stupidity from creationists
wvb93 1 year ago
@xxxFaustusxxx I'm an absolutist atheist, what does that make me :D?
labrat882 1 year ago
@xxxFaustusxxx
Then why do theists drink? To escape the reality that there is no god?
MortalTodd 1 year ago
@xxxFaustusxxx
If I were to tell you that I have never done any type of drug would that destroy your world view?
jHotmetala 1 year ago
@jHotmetala
no coffee? or tea? or soft drinks? or cigarettes? or booster shots? or vaccines? or inoculations? I find that hard to believe.
cpynch 1 year ago
@cpynch
I think you missed my point.
I was saying that I have not taking any mind altering drugs.
Read the original comment.
jHotmetala 1 year ago
Ha! - Vaguely entertaining. ... But I'm a milk-and-cookies man myself.
baltimark 1 year ago