 
Hi Youtube today I'm going to make one
of our recipe packs which involves
steeping grains you then add the wort
from that to a beer kit it adds that
extra depth of flavor and gives you a
little taste of brewing with grains so
if you're interested in brewing from
grains at some point but you don't
necessarily want to make the huge leap
from beer kits to all grain
straight away you can do this
intermediary point which it gives you a
bit of experience with grains and also
lends your confidence to then move on to
the next step don't get me wrong it's
really easy all grain brewing but this
just helps you gather a bit of extra
experience before moving on to all grain
brewing now the recipe packs that
we do on our website, if my cameraman would like
to come in, some of them vary
with what you get this particular one is
the Cooper's English bitter and with
this pack you get the Cooper's, you get a
hop addition for dry hopping, the extra
fermentables, the grains for steeping,
steeping instructions and a yeast.  You will get a yeast with the beer kit as well
but don't use that one there we go
use the one that is provided.
First step is to heat up three litres of
water in a pan here we go you need to
heat it to 68 around 68, 66 to 68
anywhere between those is fine mine yeah is
at about 66 at the moment incidentally
this is the Inkbird I've got
controlling the temperature just helps
to give you that extra bit of accuracy
but isn't essential just monitor it with
a thermometer if you don't have an Ink
bird. Now you also need a mashing bag or
some form of like fine fine mesh to put
the grain into so that you can steep it
in there it's a bit like a tea bag
how a teabag works  really and you
don't get all the equipment with the
recipe pack just to let you know it
was just what I showed you earlier so
there are certain extras that you'll
need to get if you don't already have
them this is the Ritchie's mashing and sparging bag and it's a bit big we're
only using 500 grams of grain but it'll
still do the job that's fine. To let you
know in this pan I have a solution of
Starsan sanitiser which is no rinse and
I just soaked this in there just to
make sure that there's no contamination
at all we are reaching a highish
temperature in there but it's not quite
boiling so it may not kill off all the
nasties that are in there so this is
just an extra level of protection to make
sure that everything goes well with the
brew pop that in there, what I'll do is just rest on there for now
and just pour the grain into the bag
just pop the clips on, let that steep for 30
minutes
and as you're doing that you can mix up
the rest of the beer kit ingredients add
a liter of boiling water to the vessel
incidentally just to let you know this
has also been sanitised with Starsan and
so anything that your brew is going to come
into contact with make sure you sanitise
it or sterilise depends on what you're using
now the beer kit may recommend to add
two or three litres of hot or boiling
water but because you'll be adding extra
warmth with this it's best just to add
the one litre of hot water and then
that will help you achieve the correct
pitching temperature for the yeast at
the end because you're looking at a
temperature between 18 and 24 degrees
now for the beer kit.
Add this malt extract to your hot water I've just put some warm water in here and just run a
knife around the edge just to get as
much of the extract as possible so we're getting
all the fermentable sugars in there that
we possibly can. I'm adding the extra light spray
malt now as well and then I'll just
give it all a good mix in okay give it a
stir and then once you're at the stage
of adding more water you can stir it in
all in further at this point as well
stirring it in adds oxygen which the yeast
needs to start off a good ferment and to
be healthy don't fill it up too much at
this stage as you need room because
you'll pop a sieve on top of here and
then pop the mashing back with the
grains in the sieve and then what you
call sparge over the top which is just
pouring further hot water over the top
of the grain to make sure that you've
got all of the sugars out of the
grain as possible and you'll be adding
the three litres of wort from the grain
as well. It's finished steeping and we've
got some nice wort from it there so
there'll be some lovely flavor in there
to go straight into here you'll have
noticed when I was stirring it that the
spray malt, the extra light spray malt
went into little clumps in the water not
to worry it will dissolve over time
it just takes a bit longer now just pour
the liquid from here straight into the
fermenter
but first I'll remove the bag.
give it a little squeeze out get 
all the possible flavour and sugars in
there out I can smell it as well it
smells beautiful so this is from steeping
from caramel malt and you can see that beautiful red rubyish,
caramel colour there as well right heated
to the water up to 75 and now just
pouring it over the grain which is
sat in the mashing bag and underneath
is the seive, which there it is, this water has been heated to around 75 degrees and it's just to extract some more
sugars from the grain however this isn't
entirely crucial it's up to you whether
you do it or not
but I decided to do it today to show you
how it looks.  Topped it up with cold water  to 23 litres I'm taking a hydrometer reading before
adding the yeast I'm doing that with the
tilt hydrometer which is a great little
contraption for getting your temperature
readings your hydrometer readings and
constantly being able to see what's
going on. Here it is just floating in there
and it sends the readings to the app on
your phone so as you can see there oops
we've got a specific gravity and the
temperature. Now it's time to add the yeast.
I'll take that out
again this was sanitised before putting
it directly into the liquid now the yeast
you get with this one is a GV 12 ale yeast
sprinkle on top there we go now
add some water to the airlock
pop the lid on top again this has all been
cleaned, sanitised
make sure it's sealed down add
the airlock and there we go that will
ferment now for around six days and
we'll also add a dry hop addition to
this which is the Goldings
this will add aroma and a little bit of
flavor but no bitterness try and keep
the brew at around 20 degrees if it
does fluctuate a little don't worry
that's fine and at the end of this we'll
have we'll have a really great tasting
brew and it will have that extra flavour
that you can only get from grain with
especially well with steeping there's
only certain grains that you can use so
you can't use a base malt like Maris Otter
or Golden Promise because they will
impart a lot of starch to the brew and
in the end it would make it go hazy so
don't use base malts use speciality
malts; crystal malt, caramel malt, victory
chocolate things like Black Prince
roasted barley they can all be used
together with beer kits to add extra
flavor and steeped in the way I've shown
you here it's a great way of
experimenting without the risk of buying
loads of all grain equipment
then well finding that maybe it's not for
you but you do enjoy beer kits or it's
that next step to brewing with grain
which is really rewarding you can make
all sorts of beers brewing from all grain
but this is a great in-between step and
it really achieves fantastic results and
there's no end to what kind of beers
you can make because you can add all
sorts of grains to all sorts of
different beer kits extracting different
flavors I hope you've enjoyed watching
this video I can't wait to try it it
smells amazing
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