Hi I'm Mark on behalf of Expert Village. Today
I'm going to teach you everything you need
to know about how to brew your own stout.
Today we'll be talking about everything you
need to home brew this style which includes
the ingredients, the equipment, and the different
processes you are going to need to take all
of your basic ingredients and convert them
into tasty beer. I've been a home brewer for
about nine years, I've got about 140 different
batches under my belt. I'm president of the
Employee's Beer and Wine Maker's Club. I've
even had some of my beers scaled up and produced
commercially. There are many different ways
to brew beers. Today we are going to be focusing
on extract with specialty grades. Our focus
will be on doing this as simply as possible
with the least amount of equipment investment
to start up. We'll recommend the basic amount
of equipment you need and also some big equipment
that if you want to get a little more into
it, you'll appreciate it later. To start off,
I'm going to give you an overview of what
you're going to be expecting during the whole
brewing process. To begin, you are going to
start on the brewing day. On this day you
are going to steep some specialty grains if
you have them and then you are going to add
some multi-extracting boil off that, you are
going to add in your hops, and then at the
end of that when you are done boiling, you
are going to cool it down and add in your
yeast. And this usually takes between two
to three hours. After the yeast has been added,
your work is now beer and the yeast will start
fermenting away for about three to seven days.
And this is called your primary fermentation.
Once the yeast starts slowing down, you're
going to siphon out of your primary vessel
into a secondary vessel. This operation is
called racking and it takes roughly about
thirty minutes. Once you are in your secondary
vessel, you're going to let it sit and finish
its remaining fermentation that it has left.
And this will take you usually seven to fourteen
days. At this point, most of your yeast will
have fallen out of solution and your beer
will be getting very, very clear. Finally,
you are going to be going into the bottling
phase where you are going to siphon one more
time into your bottling bucket and add some
priming sugar and then fill up your bottles
and cap them off. Then you are going to put
them into a nice, dark area and let them sit
for two or so weeks. At this point, the beer
will start carbonating itself, get that up
to a nice level and then you'll be able to
chill and drink your beer. While this video
will be enough to get you home brewing, I'd
like to recommend a couple of other resources
that you can use to develop your brewing skills.
First, the American's Home Brewer's Association
puts out a "Beginner's Guide to Home Brewing"
which you can pick up at your local store
or request at their website at www.beertown.org.
Next, we have a classic book called "The Joy
of Home Brewing" which is going to be everything
you really need to get started. For people
who want to get a little more advanced, you
can pick up "How to Brew" by John Palmer which
takes you through a little more of the science.
And for some other good recipes out there,
for some beers that you may have already tried
one of, to reproduce there is "Clone Beers
and "Beer Captured."
