Hello! My name is Dan Franklin. I’m the owner operator of HopTech Homebrews Supplies located in Dublin, California. Today, we’re going to have an introduction video on how to brew your beer. Assuming, most of you this would be your first or second time. We’re going to try to make it simple, easy, more or less a 101 Homebrew course. So let’s go over the process and the overview of how it works.
We’ve already gone over the equipment and the ingredients. First thing you’re going to do is you’re going to cook your beer. The next thing you’re going to do is you’re going to chill your beer. Once your beer is chilled, you’re then going to pour it into your first container what we call the holding container. Then you’re going to let your beer settle. After it’s settled for approximately three hours, you’re going to transfer it into your fermenter. After it’s fermented on average one week to 10 days, you’re going to transfer it back to this first bucket which will now become your bottling bucket. Once you add your priming sugar, you will get your bottles and you will fill each individual bottle. At this point, the bottling process takes between 10 and 14 days of carbonation. Put your beer in the refrigerator, test it, drink it, and enjoy it. This is a quick overview.
I’m going to start with and through the video, we will go through different steps and processes. Right now, we’re going to stop with the basic equipment. This is what we supply at HopTech. This is a good starter, intermediate, or advanced kit. What you need to do home brewing, you need fermenters, buckets, or cardboards. We choose to use buckets at HopTech. You’re going to need a pot. You’re going to need a cooking spoon, a bottle brush, a thermometer, a hydrometer and a hydrometer flask. You’re going to need sanitizer. Sanitation is very important to brew. You should have a manual, a book instructions for recipes, tubing, air lock, stopper, grain bags.
Now that we’ve looked at our equipment, let’s go over our ingredients and some other items that you’re going to need in brewing. You’re going to need an ingredient kit. Today, we’re going to be using a HopTech lager-like. It is called lager-like because it is actually an ale but taste very similar to a lager. Ales are user to brew especially for beginner brewers. It’s a very nice beer, taste like a European lager. What consist of an ingredient kit would be extract either on liquid or dry form, yeast either on liquid or dry form. This particular kit, we’re going to be adding grains. These grains are crushed. They consist of terafils for mouth fill. Barley for head wood tension and some crystal for color. You will also need hops. Hops come in either pellet form or whole hops known as leaf hops. This particular ingredient kit, we’re going to be using pellets. In most ingredient kits do come with pellets. B will be for bittering pellets, A will be for your aroma.
You will also need bottles whether you use a 22 ounce bottle or a 12 ounce bottle, or a flip top bottle. And of course if you’re going to use bottles, you need crown caps. You do not use twist top bottles, you use brown, crown cap bottles to brew. You can also put your beer in a keg if you choose to do so.
So this is the basic ingredients. You need the hardware, the ingredients, and the bottling. Some kits have more, some kits have less. At HopTech, we provide everything you need to do five gallons of successful beer fist time out. The only items we do not provide in our homebrew kit are bottles, stove, and pot. And yes you will cook beer today which brings up the safety issue. Anytime you were cooking any whether a spaghetti, beer, soup, you need to be careful—you around heat temperature. Use obvious cautions. Don’t stick your finger in the boiling water. Don’t taste boiling water—common sense, everyday items. Let me tell you a little bit about HopTech. HopTEch was one of the very first if not the very first online homebrew shop. We’ve been in business for almost 16 years now. I’ve owned then operated for the past eight years, been brewing longer than that. What we do at HopTech is we supply the public, the consumer with all the necessary supplies to homebrew. We offer beer making supplies, wine making, luxurious—
Today however, we’re going to go over home beer making. It’s a lot of fun and as we say at HopTech, it’s a hobby you can drink.
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