improving a beer kit simply
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Hey home brewers,
Its that time of year when having a beer in the sun just seems like a must. So I'm making a cheeky 40 pints. unlike a last cheap kit i brought I got a light larger kit which needs some improvement.
So you buy the kit, then you buy the spray malt and then add extra hops by the time you have brought all of that it's just easier to buy a second kit and add them together. a 2 beer kit pack isn't new but is the simplest way of improving a beer kit without all the fuss.
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One of the best of your videos so far, keeping in mind that they are all good.
hey, thanks good save :P
OH i didn't ask your makgeolli is about ready. whens the tasting!!!!!???? :)
cool, looking forward to it :)
Enjoyed the video, Thanks. Thing is now you can get a two can kit for just over the £20 mark and many are very good and many around your 5 percent ideal.
ugh. I never liked the pre-hoped kits. these beers are only good for getting drunk. Anyway, to a more fact-based section about brewing with kits. Yes you will have more body by using two, but depending on the yeast. you can have variable outcomes of FG, but all in all no matter the yeast, you will still get double the FG value by using two kits like this. To put this in perspective, any lagers or light beers usually hoover around 1.010 FG plus or minus. Darker beers or can go from 1,015 and up to 1,020. That is ok as one does not consume dark beer like a pilsner. For anyone who does not understand, I am talking about the sugar content that does not get fermented. Yes beer has unfermentable sugars that aid in enhancing the body and flavour of a beer.
So you beer now will probably be into the scale of a dark beer, which is way too much.
I guess the taste is subjective, but for me these types of beers don't taste good anyway and certainly not better this way. But if you like a thick sweet beer, then, for sure. go ahead. BTW. I don't think adding the amount of sugar will keep it at 5%. it will be higher as both kits do contain fermentable sugars. So doubling the % from one kit without sugar, and then calculating the % with the added KG of sugar, you are probably making some sort of Elephant beer.
I will be very interested to see how this turns out. I think the kilo of sugar is going to put you way over the 5%. I love the debate about re hydration of the yeast. When I brew, I pitch the yeast in the high 20's, to me that's almost the same as rehydration and within 24 hours it's down to normal fermenting temperatures. Never had a problem.
hey, indeed it's a bit of fun :) yea it's works out around 6% ish, my math was slightly off, still good in my books :D
lol, indeed beer brewing is a battle field of opinions :P
The thing with not rehydrating is that in most situations you'll get away with it, but not noticing a difference doesn't mean that there isn't a difference. Rehydrating mustn't be done with any types of sugar in the water because when yeast hits liquid and the cells rehydrate in those first few seconds the cell wall can't do its job. Some will take sugar straight into the cell and die because of it - it would be like me waking you up by forcing a jam doughnut down your windpipe. Sometimes you'll live, sometimes you'll die. The temperature also makes a difference - look at the thing I linked to.
Loads of brewers suffer with a stuck ferment at 1.020 - I'd love to see a proper correlation between that and hydrating yeast - until that's done then it's such a simple step that I can't see why it's not worth doing.
I had a ton of 1.020 stuck ferments with kits before i knew about aeration and rehydration. Never had it with all-grain so don't know if it's because I always hydrate and aerate or that the ingredients are less prone to it.
Some yeasts also hate a temperature drop - we're talking bulk, not just from when you pitch. S-04 doesn't like it if you pitch into warmer beer then ferment lower.
Right, enough of my twaddle.
lol, dog with a bone. if you want to add extra steps then you can.
There is no" you must do it". you don't even have to aerate beers and wine, the only thing that happens it is ferments slightly slower.
the research you linked was nice but to put it in context 1 yeast is 3 microns ish and he had a test of 5000 ish, that's half of 1 yeast pellet and you have to remember all the yeast dies in the end anyway
The people that come to my channel want simple, they are usually put off by all the must do's and book keeping and all the fancy equipment, they just want to have a bit of fun.
So that's what I give them. :)
I the rehydration troll!
lol :P
Liking you cheap is not always bad approach, planning to do you tea wine in a week or two.
hey, thanks :) it is surprising just how good some really cheap things turn out once brewed :) Tea wine is a good choice, plenty of room to experiment and make it your own. cheers :)
I found it more time saving and cost effective if you buy a bigger vessel and make up 46 letres with your two cans and add 2 kgs of sugar. How much better is it using the two cans of malt extract? for 23 letres.
Interesting, adding two kits into one batch. The kits are pre-hopped. How did the beer turn out? Being double-hopped I mean.
Just bought a can of this Geordie lager , Is it ok to use less water with the 1 can and make a better tasting lager Instead of using 2 cans
Pop the cans in the oven at 80 degrees for 10 mins heats them better.
If you've got two packs of yeast bung both in, it will just get it started faster !! And what else are you going to do with it ?
Hi....loved the vid, does most of the sugar turn to alcohol?? Thanks
All of it
Can you make it stronger by adding more sugar? Stupid question, but I am new to this...
Did you final gravity differ much from the target gravity of a single can?
Is 12 days the complete start to finish time, for bottling? cheers
ok, I'm a little bit more of an alcoholic. I take a beer with a shot of moonshine to get the kick
if you added 2kg of sugar how much would % be?
Where is part 2?
How come you haven't used a airlock?
How did that toucan lager turn out m8
Is that your dedicated homebrew can opener or the same one you use for the dog food? 😂😂
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Why only one pack of yeast ,love your videos,just subbed
Yeast propergates and the 2nd isn't needed, it's only very slightly faster
making homebrew wild and cheap cheers buddy
how much did u pay for two of those cans?
they were cheap, i think 6 or 7 pounds a pop
@@makinghomebrewwildandcheap wow cheapest i found was 14 pounds on ebay.. where did you get them for 6-7? or have prices doubled in 2 years? great video btw ty for the upload :)
Terrible sound but good video
lol
Switched off after 10 sec......too untidy.
That's more than fine, InFact it's preferable.