Homebrew beer, the basics of home beer brewing.

The step by step process I use to brew malt extract recipe beer. This is a great video to watch if you're brewing for the first time, or want to know more about how to home brew. Teach everyone what makes a good craft beer!

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[agtaylor78]

WOW!!! This is the most concise, to-the-point, and most accurate video (in regards to chemistry) I have ever seen! If I could give you 10 "thumbs up" I would!

Keep up this great work. You really know what you are talking about in regards to both brewing, chemistry and science. Bravo my friend.

I have been brewing for several years and I still learned a lot from this video. You could charge for this quality of informational work, but atlas, you shared it with all of us! thank you!

[jordanmwright]

@agtaylor78 Thanks for the kind words, glad it helped...

[angelialvares]

@jordanwright, well I had once a canister of pomegranate juice that was a day old so I put the skins of the pomegranate into the canister with the intent of throwing it out and forgot about it. A few days later I opened the canister and I got the smell of beer and I tasted the liquid. It had the taste of beer. I wasn't sure though how safe it would be to drink the stuff so I threw it away. Someone should experiment and see if it works. Twould be nice to have pomegranate beer. And its so easy !

[jordanmwright]

@angelialvares Technically I think that's a cider, unless the sugar comes from Barley it can't be called a beer. The bitterness of Hops and the Bitterness of Pomegranate are different too, Pomegranate has an astringent taste to it like choke-cherries, that'd be a bad combo for beer. However some astringent flavor is good in both cider and wine... (and to some extent beer too) but I don't think you could substitute it for hops.

[3709280]

BEEEEEEEEEEEEERRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!1

[scooterdotdub]

Followed these instruction to a "T" and yielded some incredible beer. You are the man.

Thank you.

[ItsHowdyDamnit]

@kjamesuvic At the beginning of the video, he said he started with 3 gallons of water. This is most likely because most pots cannot accommodate more than 5 gallons of water. During the 1 hour boil, somewhere around a gallon will evaporate. What's left is called the concentrated wort, which needs to be diluted before fermenting so the fermentables and hops to balance out amongst the total 5 gallons. The wort/water ratio is not as important as the right amount of ingredients during the boil.

[ItsHowdyDamnit]

@GLeonGarcia I don't think your ice will last long in your bucket. As 212 degree heat is exchanged, your ice is going to melt and get warn. But if you keep adding ice or snow, it could work in theory. A counterflow chiller, however, is something you could use if you have the right equipment. There is also mini-chillers out there that you put in buckets of ice to get the water as cold as you can before it goes into either the immersion or counterflow chiller. This chills your beer much quicker.

[GLeonGarcia]

Has anyone tried to cool down the wort using the immersion wort chiller in an "inverse" way:

This is having the chiller in a bucket of ice and making the wort go throughout the coil. Makes more sense to me and saves lots of water. Would that work the same?

[mancavenecessities]

very clearly explained video. one of the best on youtube in my opinion in regards to explaining the chemistry involved in brewing. maybe a bit over some noobs heads. but a great video.

[MisterGorefest]

good video my friend! I spent an hour talking to some dude at the local brew shop and couldnt understand what he was talking about! I'm a beginner and after using a Mr. Beer kit i received from Christmas I am officially hooked on brewing! time to do it the way all the cool kids do.

[businessleo]

gee, why don't you just use jargon in a common language environment

[anglowax]

Thank you for sharing this great videos...

[Petrichor91]

I have been doing loads of research into homebrewing beer. So horribly glad I found your video man. This is exactly what I need to start. Thanks so much this is very encouraging. Fun song at the end.. lol

[krazyk86cu]

great video!