Monthly Archives: July 2020
Simple Beer Yeast Starters and how to maintain them long term cheaply
Simple Beer Yeast Starters and how to maintain them long term. Keeping it simple with yeast, DME (Dry Malt Extract), Spring Water, and a little yeast nutrient.
Other items used:
Whisk, scale to weight DME, measuring cups, pot, mason jars, tin foil, and stir bar. Also home made stir plates using cigar boxes, 120 mm computer fan, earth magnets, and old 12v power adapters.
In this video I simply show you how to make wort for a yeast starter and I use about 0.67 ounces by weight of DME per 6 ounces of water. Heat, stir, cool, and pitch with a stir bar of course. After 24 to 36 hours I simply put the jars in a fridge to cold crash before pouring off excess malt and pouring the yeast with some malt back into a smaller mason jar for long term storage in the bottom drawers of my beer fridge. I repeat this process about every 4 months for all of the yeasts I maintain.
Chocolate Bock – Simple Brew Day for Beginners – Super Easy – Part 1 of 2
Chocolate Bock – Simple Brew Day for Beginners – Super Easy – Part 1 of 2
I made this to show the first time brewer just how easy a brew day can be with very little equipment purchases. This was very inexpensive and the tools needed are inexpensive too.
What was actually needed to make this all extract Bock Beer?
Bock Extract with corn sugar and priming sugar for bottling https://www.homebrewing.org/Muntons-B…
A couple decent sized pots (source of heat of course) Or one large pot like this https://www.homebrewing.org/8-Gallon-…
Large Spoon or a nice paddle like this https://www.homebrewing.org/24-Plasti…
Accurate Thermometer https://www.homebrewing.org/Lab-Therm…
6 Gallon Carboy with either a rubber stopper or carboy cap and airlock/bubbler
https://www.homebrewing.org/6-Gallon-… https://www.homebrewing.org/Orange-Un… https://www.homebrewing.org/3-Piece-A…
Auto-siphon with tubing and bottler wand https://amzn.to/3fW53gp
About 50 empty and sterile 12 oz beer bottles for bottling 50 Bottle Caps (cheap) https://www.homebrewing.org/Cold-Acti…
Bottle capper (inexpensive) https://www.homebrewing.org/Red-Rocke…
Nice things to have beyond this: Great Hydrometer kit https://amzn.to/31ecJ9x
Hop socks and some pre-milled specialty grains if you want to modify the flavor a bit like I did with the chocolate malts. Funnel with filter https://www.homebrewing.org/10-Funnel…
Bottling Bucket https://www.homebrewing.org/65-Gallon…