 Making some handcrafted winter warmer ale at home. Well, so first of all, this is cake and I need to clean it out because we've just finished a batch of another beer. I'll be making that together in there. But first we need to sanitize everything, so I'll be doing that. I'm sanitizing using a sterilizer. This is a local brew shop. So I need to open this up and take all the parts apart. I got this one from Decay. Do you see what it looks like inside? Yeah, sure. You can see there's some sludge at the bottom. So I put the sanitizing solution into here. And then I'm going to be good. I'm going to recycle it and I'm going to get the barrel that I'm going to brew the beer in. I'm going to use the same solution as that. Partly because it's already clean, I just need to make doubly sure. But what I'll do with this is I'll sanitize this and then I'll seal it up and inject it into it. So that it is ready for me to use when my beer is done in a couple of weeks. Okay, cool. So I've sanitized the cake. It's just really dry at the moment and all the components. I transferred that sanitizing solution to my bucket. So I'll continue to do its thing on the bucket. It's only light clean, so it's 10, 15 minutes on that. And in the meantime, I'm going to get all started on this. So the kit comes with basically your malt extract, I guess. And effectively, all you do really is add yeast and water to these tins. So the stuff is really running, so what you do is you put it in hot water for 20 minutes or so to help it melt so that it's more, it's easier to get out the tins when you put it into the bucket. Okay, so I'm going to do that now. Okay, so the bucket comes, I mean, you can get this at Wilco's, Wilkinson's or any brew shop. Generally speaking, these kits are for a certain volume of beer, so this one is going to do 20 liters of beer. So really, you want a bucket about this size, you don't really want to use a half-sized pail or anything like that unless you're going to do half the kit. This keg fits 19 liters, so some of it will be scrapped, I won't fit it. So I've emptied the sanitizing solution, I've washed out the bucket with some clean water and I am now adding the malt extract to the bucket. Mmm, it smells lovely. I've already put some boiling water in there and then what I'll do is I'll stir it all up and add some cold water and check the temperature before adding the yeast. I'm just giving it a stir and I've got a thermometer. I'm just giving it a stir, I've got this really long paddle which is handy. You can get that from Wilkinson's, again I'm already at a brew shop. And I need to just check the temperature because yeast doesn't like really hot temperatures. Well, because it dies. So you want the temperature to be below 25 degrees and at the moment it's about 35. So I'm not sure if you can see it on the camera or not. So I'll wait for this and we'll come back to that later. Yeah, you want to wait until you get to 25 degrees and then add the yeast. Alright, it's been several hours and the temperature is now just under 25 degrees Celsius. So we're now okay to put the yeast in here. More of a stir. Okay, so it looks basically like bread yeast but it's not bread yeast. Don't use bread yeast. It's a different sort of yeast. But it's the same principle, you just pour it in and it does its magic. So now I'm going to cover it up. You don't stir it or anything like that. Well, unless the instructions tell you to do so. Different recipes say to do so but this one doesn't. Okay, I'm going to seal the lid. And then I've got an air lock which will go to the top. And that will allow the carbon dioxide generated by the alkalization process to escape but not air and bacteria to get in. I'll just fill it up and put it in. And as you can see the water levels change as I push the, it's good. And then you put it somewhere warm like an air encloset or in my case I'm going to put it in the basement next to the boiler. Which has a fairly constant temperature around 18 degrees Celsius. So if it gets too hot the yeast is going to die. If it gets too cold it's going to take forever for the brew to happen. So this should take about six days, maybe eight days depending on the temperature to brew. At which point I'll put it in the keg and it's another two or three week wait for it to be just right. So hopefully we might have something to drink by Christmas but it'll be better around New Year's to be honest.