Hello! Dan Franklin from HopTech Homebrewing in Dublin, California. Now let the grains that you’ve just on a partial mash put it into your pot and let it sit for about 10 or 15 minutes from which this has. What you don’t want to do is ever leave your stove unattended for safety purposes. Once it comes to a whirling boil, it is ready to go to the next step which is going to add the extract. I definitely want to point out a very common hazard is the famous boil over and we almost just had once. So what you want to do is reduce your heat lightly. In fact for safety purposes, I would suggest to turn your heat completely off okay.
You’re going to add your extract into this boiling water. Now, beer has four things. Water, sugar, yeast, and hops. First thing is the boiling of the water, now we’re going to add the sugar. This is malt extract. So you want to be careful how you want to pour this in. At this point, it’s nice if you have a second person here who can help you stir as you pour. So we’re going to lightly pour this in very carefully. This is a high temp spoon so I can set it doesn’t, it won’t transfer heat. I want to pour the extract. As you can see, this is malt extract. Okay so we’re going to pour some in here and then we’re going stir it. Okay so you want to pour all your extract in.
Now be very careful because obviously you’re over a boiling pot. At this point, I did shut the heat off but it’s still extremely hot. Now it’s going to get done here, it’s going to be a little difficult. There’s a couple of ways to do this. You can dunk this in but that’s kind of scary because you can burn yourself and once again very important, don’t let children do this. Adults only okay. Take a regular Pyrex cup, take this here, hold it over, pour it in there okay. Swish it around cautiously. Don’t swish it violently because you’re going to burn yourself. You just want to loosen up this extract here okay. And you’re going to pour it on through and you’re going to repeat that step a couple of times until the extract is all been in there. Okay it’s just kind of—once again, now what you can do is you can put your lid on it but I warn you and you can swish it around but this will expand so don’t put your face over to open it. Swirl it around nice and smooth, open it very cautiously, take it, and pour it on in.
So what you want to do is you want to give as much for the extract into your pot as possible okay. Once you’ve finished this procedure, the next step is we’re going to turn the heat back on, get it to boiling again, it shouldn’t take very long because you only had the heat off for a very short period of time.
Now many of you will use an outdoor stove. You can use and electric range or you can use a gas stove. An outdoor high temp burner, you definitely have to shut the gas off because when you add the extract or when you add the hops, you have a good chance for an over boil and you’re going to burn yourself so common sense.
So at this point, we’re going to the heat back on. We’re going to give it a few seconds to get back to boil and we’re going to add our hops. Once again on your spoon, this particular spoon is a high temp spoon. So I can sit here and let it rest. You can put your lid on but you don’t want to sit it all away which you do not repeatedly, you do not want to walk away with leaving three and a half, four gallons of boiling water on the stove especially if you have pets and little kids running around. You don’t want anybody to get burned.
So we’re going to bring this up to a boil and we’re going to get our hops out, and we’re going to go ahead and open them up.
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