Brew beer like the big leaguers at home. This comprehensive course teaches you everything you need to know to brew great beer using the partial mash or all-grain method. From raw ingredients to pouring your first pint of homebrew and everything in between, get started with this course.
Introduction
About
Course Objectives
Equipment needed for this course
Materials needed for this course
Introduction
What is all-grain brewing?
What is partial mash brewing?
Why brew all-grain?
Why not brew all-grain?
All-grain vs. partial mash
Beer basics
How beer is made
Beer's four main ingredients
Wort preparation
Boiling with hops
Fermentation
Conditioning
Packaging
Sanitation
Malt preparation
What is malt?
Types of malt
Diastatic vs. non-diastatic malts
Modification
Milling
Mashing concepts
Purpose and goals of the mash
Mash enzymes
Mash schedules
Single infusion mashing
Stepped temperature mashing
Decoction mashing
Wort collection
Lautering
Vorlauf and recirculation
Sparging
Single infusion mashing for homebrewers
Recipe
Brew day overview
Equipment nomenclature
The mash-lauter tun (MLT)
The hot liquor tank (HLT)
Heat strike water
Mill grain
Mash in
Mash In Video
Maintain mash temperature
Water chemistry and mash pH
Heat sparge water
Lautering: Vorlauf and recirculation
Lautering: Vorlauf and recirculation
Lautering: Collect first runnings
How to deal with a stuck runoff
Lautering: The sparge
Lautering Video 1
Note
Lautering Video 2
Boiling
Mash evaluation
Checking for conversion
Pre-boil gravity and volume
Post-boil gravity and volume
Brewhouse efficiency
Partial mashing
Why partial mash?
Boiling your wort
Prepare yeast
Prepare sanitizer solution
Sanitize Carboy
Prepare your hops
Boiling
Hops Add
59–16 minutes remaining
Sanitize Wort Whirl
Add yeast nutrient
10 Minutes Hop Addition
0 minutes remaining
After the boil
Cool the wort
Transfer wort to fermentor
Siphon
Top up if needed
Measure original gravity (OG)
Measuring Original Gravity
Pitch brewer's yeast
Pitch Brewer's Yeast
Lock up and store
Fermenting your beer
Lag phase
High Kräusen
Flocculation
Gravity readings
Conditioning your beer
Racking to secondary
Dry hops
Bulk conditioning
Measure final gravity (FG)
Bottling your beer
Bottling day agenda
Sanitize bottles, caps, and equipment
Prepare priming sugar solution
Rack to bottling bucket with priming solution
Bottling
Fill bottles
Fill Bottles
Cap bottles
Cap Bottles
Store bottles
Enjoying your beer
Wait
Refrigerate
Pour
Observe
Thank you
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