How not to make beer

[bpgreen]

Ya'll don't remember the "buy a water jug from wall mart, bust it open, pour off a little water, pour in a can of mr. beer, put the lid on, shake the crap out of it, take the lid off, pitch yeast, put the lid on again" lady? That was like the easiest way ever to make beer. No fussing around with anything.

https://youtu.be/k75iQSiAkho

[FedoraDave]

Like I said, it's good enough for him. His money, his beer, his way.
Not the way I'd suggest to those new to the hobby though.

And that's my issue. Listen, make your home-brew the way you want, to suit your tastes; I sure do. But if you're posting videos online, who knows how many people unfamiliar with or new to the hobby are going to take this as "The Way To Brew." Same thing with the "Walmart water jug" lady, or the guy who filters his home-brew through an AC filter. Remember him?

Oddly, another really big issue I have with this guy is the way he overfills his fermenter because he says he's going to lose some of it as the krausen rises. And we see in the second video that that's exactly what happened.

Uh...guy? Maybe if you didn't overfill the fermenter, you wouldn't have such an overflow issue. Just a suggestion, but it's been my experience that you can't put ten pounds of sh!t into a five pound bag.

[Dawg LB Steve]

MEH! Brewers choice!! If that's the way he makes beer and he likes it good on him!

[Kealia]

I have two major issues with this video:

1) He waited until he was OUT of homebrew before making more!
2) He made a porter - ick!

Near the end, I was laughing at his comments about the beers his friend had sent him. Overall, I found him enjoyable and entertaining - regardless of his methods.

[ScrewyBrewer]

I have two major issues with this video:

1) He waited until he was OUT of homebrew before making more!
2) He made a porter - ick!

Ugh....as I sit here putting the finishing touches on my American Porter recipe.... Our club is having a North vs South brewing competition, sponsored by Icarus Brewing. The winning recipe gets brewed on their 10 barrel system and put on tap at the brewery. It's not my favorite beer, especially this time of year, but hey 10 barrels is 10 barrels if I win.

[Kealia]

I have two major issues with this video:

1) He waited until he was OUT of homebrew before making more!
2) He made a porter - ick!

Ugh....as I sit here putting the finishing touches on my American Porter recipe.... Our club is having a North vs South brewing competition, sponsored by Icarus Brewing. The winning recipe gets brewed on their 10 barrel system and put on tap at the brewery. It's not my favorite beer, especially this time of year, but hey 10 barrels is 10 barrels if I win.

That would be cool, good luck! Hopefully, everybody knows that I say that is jest as it's just not my style - the same way some people don;t care for hoppy IPAs.

[Beer-lord]

Man, I really hate to pick knowing that I definitely don't know everything about beer and learn more each day I come to this forum but here's another video to complete the first one.
Soap is a no-no and rain water without any sanitizer? Well, boiling should work but why not use sanitizer? Bottles when it's still fermenting? I do everything I can and my beers are tasting metallic and this guy uses rain water and boiling water and his beers are good? I'm jealous!
Just fast forward thru the music parts if you're not interested and get back to his bottling.

[LouieMacGoo]

That dude is just a little nuts! Rinsing his bottles with a garden hose! Really???? As for carbonation of the bottles I guess if you bottle before it's done fermenting then you don't have to add priming sugar. I really have a hard time believing that this guy's beer tastes any good. Simply amazing. I wonder how many people follow his vlog and have tried homebrewing the way he does it?

[mashani]

Well, as far as bottling fermenting wort, that is sort of half assed version of Krausening, which is an authentic German way of carbonating lagers. But to do that the way they intended, you ferment out your lager completely (knowing what the OG and FG was), you do your cold conditioning/bulk aging... then when you are ready to bottle or keg it, then you brew an IDENTICAL batch of beer, and pull off a sample of the wort when it is at high krausen. Then you check it's current gravity. Then you do math in to figure out how much of that wort you need to pull and add to your finished beer in order for the continued fermentation to produce the CO2 volumes you want, pull that much of the beer, and basically use it as your priming solution for the finished beer. That's pretty cool if you are a commercial brewer that can pretty much always brew an IDENTICAL beer every time.

That has a side effect of getting lots of very fresh and happy yeast into the mix which helps clean up any leftover nasties (diacetyl, acetaldehyde, etc.).

And it's not adding sugar so it's Reinheitsgebot approved. Gesundheit.

His half assed way won't clean up any nasties, but in theory if he brewed exactly the same beer under exactly the same conditions using exactly the same yeast and exactly the same pitch rates and knew for pretty darn sure what your FG was going to end up at because of all that exactness, and didn't get an infection, then you could in theory take a hydro sample and when the time was right bottle it.

In his case, I think the exactness/infection potential is um... not so good though.