How to All Grain Brew

A beginner's guide to brewing all-grain. Very simple step by step instructions on how to brew an all-grain Belgian Saison, specifically. Go out, buy the ingredients, and follow me in the video to brew your first all-grain batch!

Ingredients:
10 lbs - Belgian Pilsner Malt
0.75 lbs - Crystal 20L
0.60 oz. Northern Brewer Hops (60 min)
0.25 oz. Northern Brewer Hops (10 min)
1.0 pkg - WYEAST 3711 - French Saison Yeast

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• all grain
• brewing
• saison
• how to
• beer
• homebrew
• home brew
• belgian

[crazedmjfan]

I was wanting to brew the Saison recipe, but I had a couple of questions.

1. How long does it need to stay in primary fermenter and at what temperature? 2. Does it need transferred to a secondary for any amount of time, or just bottle from primary? How long would you recommend conditioning in bottles before drinking? Thank you for your help

[HokieHomeBrew]

@crazedmjfan I almost always do a secondary fermentation, but for this one I only did a primary. For two reasons, one I wanted as much of that belgian yeast character as I could get and two, this beer is traditionally not clear so no need to rack to secondary for clearing. I left it in the primary for 14 days at room temp, about 72 degrees. Once again, I normally ferment lower than this but on saison and hefe I like to ferment higher to get all of those characterful esters from the yeast.

[HokieHomeBrew]

@HokieHomeBrew 2 weeks in the bottle should be good. this style is also highly carbed, so make sure you carb to like 2.6 volumes or so on this one

[nodagamera]

Boil overs? Firm cap. :-D

Great stuff- saved my stove and my walls .

[HokieHomeBrew]

@nodagamera nice

[ihaveaclone]

Great vid!! I just realized how much i hate LME and have converted to AG.So, I'm in the process of building my own MLT, and was wondering if you were using one you built, or bought pre-assembled?

[centralparkfitness]

drill some holes in those pots and get some ball valves on there! also, drill a hole in the top of the cooler and get a cheap faucet fitting sprinkler head on and you can sparge it nice and easy, just set tun up on stool and then put the boil kettle on the floor and let gravity do its thing

[HokieHomeBrew]

@burtonforce3 not a problem. good luck!

[HokieHomeBrew]

@Tsaxman59 yes, I only did a primary on this one for 14 days at room temp to get all the nice belgian esters

[firebirdude2]

Women should be seen and not heard.