- Do you like beer?
I like beer!
This is, it's called the New
Normal, an India pale ale.
That's what I'm gonna make today
and I wanna take you along for the ride.
It's super simple to make beer.
I'm blanking on what to say next,
so we're supposed to do something
at the beginning of the video.
But I wanna take you on a ride today,
show you how easy it is!
Pot like this, couple other
things, you can make this.
Ready?
Here we go.
So while I start the introduction,
this is a big stainless steel pot.
I've got two gallons of water in it.
The bigger the pot, the better.
You might wanna have one of these
or get it at a dollar store.
While I'm yakking, let's turn this on
if I know how to work this.
There you go.
Use the biggest burner
on your stove you have
and the biggest pot you
have and I'll explain why.
You might even see why later.
So this is your typical home brew kit.
You have malt extract, you
have some crushed grains,
you have a dry malt, these are hops,
and this is called a grain bag.
You're also gonna have some yeast.
You have your choice of a dry yeast,
which is kinda like bread yeast,
but don't use bread yeast, okay.
Get beer yeast.
And this is a liquid yeast,
I find that liquid yeasts work better.
They're really best if you buy them
from a local home brew shop.
They can also ship this kind of thing,
but they have to keep it cold.
Big tip, big hint:
Three hours before you're gonna brew,
take this out of the
fridge, let it warm up.
And maybe you're wondering
why this kinda piece of
cheesecloth sock is here.
This is for steeping the grains.
We're going to flavor this water
to make it taste like beer,
and part of that
is some grains that have been
crushed and put in this bag.
Let's have a bowl here,
this will go in here,
this I gotta scissors?
Will this open?
Kinda open.
Scissors.
It looks kinda like
granola or oatmeal, maybe.
Those are called crushed grains.
Like that!
There you go.
So while this is heating up,
we do this before the boil.
You know, really,
following the instructions
that come with your brew kit,
it does make a difference.
We're gonna steep this kind
of like you're steeping tea.
You know, this could be the tea bag
and that's the tea water.
This goes in here and I don't
really usually let that float.
I just take this and I clip it on
with a little laundry
clip, what's this called?
Clothespin.
Like that.
So you're gonna need to brew
this, ferment this somewhere,
and this is a fermenting bucket.
It's a six gallon bucket,
it's made to brew five gallons of beer.
I really suggest you
buy a beer brewing kit.
I'll link to one that I like
below the video, that text.
You might have to click the
down arrow to see all the text
(fluid settling)
but, oh this makes a sound.
But it has a little valve here,
I've got it turned upside down right now,
and some sanitizer.
This is the important thing.
Once the, what's this called?
The beer mix wort,
once you turn the
boiling heat off of that,
everything from that point
on has to be sanitized
and this is a great sanitizer.
Some other ones on the
market, use whatever you want.
You can also use regular
laundry chlorine bleach,
but you can really stain your clothes.
(whispers)
Ask me.
I've done that.
So I no longer stain my clothes
because I use a sanitizer.
So clean everything with a sanitizer.
Do not use dish soap.
Soap and beer, bad bad mix, okay?
But clean it all up, keep
your self clean as well,
keep your work area clean, you'll be fine.
I don't mean to sound like
a sterilization crazy nut,
but this actually is
kind of hard to mess up
and then at the end of it, you
get to drink your own beer.
So I just have a paper
towel with my sanitizer
and I just go over the
whole barrel bucket.
This has been in the basement
so there's a little bit
of debris in the bottom.
You wanna clean the lid,
you wanna get that gasket outa there,
and I'm gonna put this in
the bucket and clean it.
How are you?
Beer's cooking.
Well we're starting to make
the beer, is that exciting?
Not as exciting as maybe some dog treats.
Okay this has steeped long
enough per the instructions.
(tea bag leaks)
Okay that's hot!
This you can put in your compost
or you can make bread out of this
or incorporate it into
some sort of a food.
It has kind of a caramel-ly
malty grain smell
because it's a barley malt.
This is a malt extract syrup
maybe kinda like molasses-y
but if your kitchen's
cold or your house is cold
or this has been in a cold
basement, you wanna warm this up.
Get it near the stove
or somewhere that's safe
that won't melt, maybe.
But the warmer this is,
the easier it is to pour it outa here.
(paper flaps)
You know, I have a rule: If all
else fails, read directions.
But when you're making beer,
you should probably follow the directions.
Pretty close, anyway.
It's really simple, it's
kinda like baking bread.
A lot of it is just time and
you just kinda like breathe
and like, oh we're gonna bottle some beer.
Bottle beer, which happens afterward.
I did a video about
bottling beer a while ago.
I'll link at the end of the show, okay?
Okay that's boiling!
Time for the next step.
Turn the heat down, this
gets poured into here.
Alright so this is hard to do
with the camera and everything,
but there's still malt
syrup extract in here,
so I'm gonna scoop some hot
water from here into here,
swish it around, drop it back in.
(Eric exclaims)
- That's hot.
Wow, that was interesting.
That just--
(doorbell chimes)
(dog barking rapidly)
And the doorbell's ringing, so hold on.
Okay that was the mailman.
(plastic top slides off grooves)
(fluid falling)
Alright, that's pretty
clean, I'm happy with that
and my hand is a little warm and sticky.
You'll learn this as you do this.
I forgot to show you,
but I also poured in the
powdered malt in here as well.
You don't have to sanitize
this or sanitize this
because we're gonna boil this now
and the boiling will sanitize
what will become the wort.
I think it's after the boil is done
it's technically called the wort?
If you know the answer, please
let me know in the comments.
I always learn from you guys.
Hops.
You will add hops to your beer and
sometimes you're gonna add them
at the beginning of the boil,
sometimes you're gonna add
them at the middle or the end
or sometimes when halfway
through the fermentation!
But these, that's kind
of hard to show isn't it?
These are hops.
It looks like rabbit
food more than anything.
And these are gonna be boiling hops
and I'm gonna put these in right now.
(bag crackles)
Are you excited about making beer?
I can tell.
Alright so I put in the
dry malt, the extract,
and I turned the burner up to high again,
but you have to keep an eye on this
because you wanna avoid this overflowing.
See that?
That gets real foamy and
foams over and it's not fun.
So you can put the lid on,
but you have to keep an eye on it as well.
So this
(metallic knocking)
check it once in a while.
When it starts to boil turn the heat down,
otherwise this foams over
and I cleaned up the mess from
the previous time I made beer
because well you know what happened.
It got out of hand.
For someone who doesn't drink beer,
you are awfully excited about beer.
Okay it just happened!
(hot eye sizzling)
That is what you want to avoid.
Oh man.
Let's turn the heat down!
Heat goes down.
Down heat!
(Eric groans)
Somebody was distracting me
because they wanted a treat.
You.
And then that.
(soft pop)
It's kinda hart to get mad
at Charlie-Pup, though, so.
I mean it's just beer.
It's not--
I mean it's fun and this
will be totally fine, okay
but it's gonna be--
this is essentially liquid sugar.
It's like honey-syrup, maple syrup.
This is malt syrup and water and hops
and now I get to clean that up.
Nice.
Okay back to the boil.
This is ten minutes before the end
and it says to add in
another thing of hops.
There we go!
It smells like beer.
It's very cool despite the,
well let's call it the accident here.
Well we're gonna turn this off.
Wrong way.
(Eric hums)
Off like that.
Now this is officially a wort
and after we've turned off the
boiling, from this point on
everything that touches
that has to be sanitized.
And don't get all wigged out about that.
It's not the end of the world,
you just keep your hands
clean, keep your bucket clean.
There's a lot of wiggle
room, let's just say,
cuz you know how I am about this.
This is gonna go in here.
(running fluids)
Alright so now you've got this hot wort
and you wanna add your liquid yeast
which you took out a while ago.
Here's the trick.
This, if you pour it in here
right now, this yeast will die
cuz it's just too darn hot in there.
So there's different
ways to cool this down,
and ideally you're gonna
cool this down, the wort,
as quickly as possible.
You can get what's called a wort chiller,
which is a brass piping thing
you run cold water through,
which I think is an
incredible waste of water.
You can also, I've done this,
buy ice cubes from the ice cube machine
and throw a bag of ice cubes in here.
That'll cool it down right quick.
I'm gonna pour cold water in here
and then put it outside cuz
it's pretty darn cold out.
It'll take a couple hours,
it could take six hours,
and then we can put this in.
People get all wigged out about,
you must pitch the yeast
as quickly as possible,
and by-and-large, that's true yes.
But this is Garden Fork and
we're not gonna sweat it.
We're gonna cool this down,
we're gonna add this in,
and we're gonna make some beer.
(rushing water)
(thump from weight)
Hello.
I gotta do a little work now, okay?
Whenever I turn the
camera on, she's there.
So now you have to wait
for the wort to cool
and that's kinda like
watching paint dry you know?
I put it outside.
You could use a bag of ice cubes.
I used cold water.
That cold water spraying it
in also aerates the wort.
You wanna add oxygen,
air, into the liquid.
That's a good thing because
the yeast needs that.
Notice here I have a
glass thing of sanitizer.
It isn't completely
dissolved, I don't know why.
Ideally you have some kind
of stainless steel stirrer,
but I'm gonna sanitize
my, what's this called?
Thermometer and check the temperature.
I'm just gonna pop it
open real quick, check it.
I don't think it's cool enough
just feeling the bottom of it,
but for the camera,
for you, I'll show you.
74, that's pretty good!
So we're gonna take the tip of this
and put that in the sanitizing
solution, take my scissors,
put that in the sanitizing solution,
shake this up really well, take this,
cut that tip off, pour that in.
(loud banging on plastic)
yeast is in, time for aeration.
Now a lot of people will take the lid off
and use some sort of stainless steel tool,
kitchen implement that's been sanitized,
to mix this whole thing up.
But I'm like, you got the lid off,
you're mixing maybe bad germs in there
that can mess up your fermentation.
I just take this puppy and
I shake the heck out of it
as best I can cause it's five
gallons of beer right now.
And we already spilled a
bunch of it on the stove.
After a couple of weeks,
depending on your instructions,
you'll be doing some bottling of this
and you're wondering,
Eric how do I bottle?
Here's how you bottle.
You follow that video,
that's my bottling video.
If I can do it, you can do
it, this is not rocket science
there's a lot of people that
get wound up all about it
but just shake it around a little bit,
wave your hands in the air a little bit.
Alright there you go.
Make it a great day, let
me know your thoughts,
♪ Shake your beer around ♪
That could be a song I guess, right?
I'll see you later.
