in this video we attempt to brew a
banana bread beer we're talking malty
roasty and nutty with a strong banana
character to achieve this we do some
uncharacteristic stuff watch to the very
end to see how this experimental beer
worked out and also to find out how we
might modify the recipe for future batches
banana bread beer let's grind some grains
Cool
Uh we need a drill for that
Yeah I was lookin'
*laughs*
Oh man
Ok cool man got a drill
Drill
Uh you know what I should probably do the drill part
You wanna do the drill? Yeah that's cool
You're probably better at the pouring part
Alright, alright alright
There we go man
Real nice
Oooh yeah
we mashed in at 85 degrees 85
85 degrees not typical we are going to be
doing a decoction mash today it's gonna
be a like a sort of admittedly
half-assed decoction but it should give
us some extra malt character in the beer
I have a feeling this is gonna be a goddamn
mess
no way
No?
I don't make messes
I don't make messes
Alright
Alright cool and then I'll put that after you make a mess
Yeah *laughs*
Actually that would be really funny Lawson
Screw you
*laughs* alright you ready?
Yeah
Alright I'm going
ohhhh
oh look at that
oooh yeah man
We're pulling out about 2 gallons here
Um we I think we do I think we probably need like enough
water to at least cover the um
So the idea
is you're pulling the thickest part
of the mash out to boil it and then
you're adding it back but you do need
like some liquid to like achieve a boil so
Cool
Lets uh I'll get a little uh
I'd say just like enough to cover it
yeah that's probably perfect yeahhh
real nice
real nice
all right so what we're doing here is a
decoction mash
So what are we, what are we doing here?
Alright, we're doing a decoction mash
*censor* hard to say that word
Yeah it's a hard word
*low pitched voices*
It's *censor* hard to say that word yeah it's a hard word
Decoction
So what, what are we doing here?
you're pulling some grain out of your
kettle you're boiling it right and then
you're adding it back in and if you're
starting it just like say at room temp
and then you're pulling out measured
amounts and you're boiling which is a
known value right means you can't boil
over a certain temperature you add it
back you're able to pretty reliably
increase the temperature of your mash
Smart
Yeah to certain steps right
By boiling the mash
what you also get is
increased malt complexity in the
finished product that's why we're doing
this today all right
so that's gonna
give you better flavor yeah it's gonna
change the flavor right I've never
actually brewed decoction beer before
decoction mash beer so this will be
a pleasant surprise hopefully
it smells good
how long's it been boiling?
10 minutes right now
oh right now
right now
Ok
Tommy: Alright I'm turning this off
Kyle: Well I'm curious I'm curious
how much this is gonna raise the temp
I'm just goin' oh yeah
*grunts*
Perfect
Ay it's not so bad
it wasn't horrible
Give it a whiff in there uhh
ooh yeah that smells good
Tommy: It does smell good
Kyle: That smells like ok so like
what's it smell like to you?
Grain
Grain *laughs*
it smells different than just like a mash
would though yeah
you know like a normal mash would
It smells like toasted grain
I think it smells just like a more rich
more aromatic mash
It's got like a it has like a baked goods kind of quality
Yeah it does it really does
Like you don't normally get with just a normal mash
I'm gonna give it I'm gonna give it a little taste
How is it?
Not, not very good *laughs*
I mean it's sweet but there's a lot of uh
like of the husk of the grain *laughs*
Yeah *laughs*
It'll be in your teeth for a few days
all right so
what did it increase the temperature to?
what I'm confused I'm confused guys let's
put the lid on and turn the pump on
dude that did not increase the temp as
much as I thought it would
*sad piano music*
we've boiled our grains we added them
back we're done with the decoction
portion so now we're just gonna go ahead
and bump up to
We're just gonna we're just gonna go straight up to mash temp
Cool
So, we're making a banana bread beer
Tommy's uh as we mentioned he's like a
chef right and so he bakes cakes for this
bar he works at a super nice
cocktail bar and so I think your
original idea was to bake a cake
yeah and just throw a whole cake in there
I was thinking before we do that maybe let's do like
try and achieve some baked goods sort of
Yeah
malt complexity but just...
*echoed incoherent words*
I still think we should throw a cake in there
And now we wait
I love this dog, it's just standing here
if I could get Lucy to do this
Raven what the *censor* are you doing?
my dog just
pooped outside on the sidewalk in front
of our the neighboring business owner's
front doors
Do you have Lawson scoop the poop?
As part of it's like his dirty deed
What is it, what is it saying to you?
It's saying I'm ripe enough to use, it only took a week
it's hard out here for a pimp *laughs*
you gotta
get this money for the rent *laughs*
Dude, look look Tommy up on sound Soundcloud
Look em' up
DJ Tommy Gunz?
Tommy Gunz *laughs*
Kyle: What are we doin? Oh we're done
Tommy: So we're at an hour
We're done mashing
Lift the lid?
Yeah just like lift it a little bit more
Oooh man look at that
dude you gotta get a shot of get a shot of
Kyle: that
Tommy: Get in the game
Get up in that Lawson
get up in that foamy pot there got right
up in there
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
What she smell like?
Smells like those grains you were eatin'
Oooh
*laughs*
While we're waitin' for that to drain
let's get this bumped up to a boil
I'm setting it to 200 because we've been
like dicking around listening to music
and whatnot
that way we can continue to do that and
this thing won't just like boil over
we'll just keep checking on it and then
like once we see that it's at 200 then
we'll like bring it up to a boil
Alright bye guys good luck
See ya dude See ya buddy
Oooh man that's some scuzzed up
It's all scuzzed up over there
Funky scuz
Saw some funky scuz
Not you jus just this...
*laughs*
So we're gonna be using 2 ounces of these Hallertau hops
Hallertau...
Alright so we're gonna be adding some brown sugar
We got a...
24 ounces here
*laughs* sugar brick
Sugar brick
oh, oh, oh
oooh real nice
real nice like
Now we're gonna add half an ounce of the Hallertau hops
all right boils done
all right so we're
gonna toast our walnuts we're going to
add to the beer it's gonna release the
oils that's in them and you can throw
these in a 350 degree oven on a sheet tray
and they'll be done in like five minutes
should we be concerned about
fat in the beer
uh I don't think so um...
it's not a ton of oil that comes out of
them
I mean it's not like you're going to visibly see any oil
but um
I don't know seems like according to the beer preachers online
we're committing a sin here
that's okay
*laughs*
yeah there may be a better way to do
this this is how we're gonna do it
breaking them up yeah I'm just kind of
breaking them up basically once you just
start to smell some aroma from the
walnuts you know they're toasted
dumpin
chiller has been turned on circulating
coolin' er down
we're again we're
bucking bucking everything we've read on the
internet we're using actual real nuts
and we're gonna be putting them into the
fermenter
I think the concern might be like the
fat in the oil
Yeah sure and that's probably a legit concern
Well we're
We're gonna see *laughs*
They're in now
all right cool so were you talking about
dunking our bananas yeah next up we're
gonna dunk the whole bunch in the sany
Oh man look at that
Yeah look at that
Look at that
all right so we're using what is that? WLP... 3 hundo
3 hundo
Yeah
Yeah man!
Done
Sweet done and done
nice job
We'll see you in 30 30
seconds or less to do the tasting
Banana beer
Banana beer
Cheers
Cheers
That's boozy
Yeah
You know to be honest with you Kyle I was really
excited to try this banana beer
How do you feel about it now? *laughs*
It's okay, you know it
kind of tastes like a brown ale
this beer tastes a thousand percent better
than it did when we first tapped the keg
months ago we filmed this beer months
ago yeah and we've not finished it because
the beer was god-awful
Kyle: like right out of the keg
Tommy: That's a little weird
It tasted like trash literal trash
but I would actually
say from where it's at for what three
months it's been like three months
yeah definitely that's really yeah it's
improved its definitely improved
I mean first of all it's under carbonated
just there's a problem with our tap system
but it doesn't really have much head
retention anyway that's probably I think
because we put the walnuts in we put
walnuts yeah in the beer
I wonder if
everyone said don't do
that I think that's one of the reasons
why you're not supposed to do that
probably just the oils in there
we wanted to try
it anyway you know we tried it
now we probably
won't do that again
yeah probably won't do it again
it tastes like you get like a little
brown ale and then from the yeast maybe
and the grains but and then it just is
there's nothing really there's no back
backbone to it just flat
Do you tastes the walnuts though? I taste the walnut
See I don't I don't I'm gonna look for it
Dude look for that walnut it's in there
Yeah I don't get it
no?
I don't I don't get the walnut
Maybe I'm just imagining things
maybe I taste a lot of walnut 
Do you?
yeah
I don't...
I get I personally think it tastes like walnuts
I don't get bananas at all at all
Tommy: no banana
Kyle: zero banana
And then the rest is just like
barely tolerable alcohol like a lot of
its really boozy
Oh I can tolerate it
*laughs*
I don't drink beers like this
it's actually it's pretty great
Kyle: You like it?
Tommy: I would crush this oh yeah
Kyle: Oh dude
Tommy: Drink this all night
I'll take the I'll take the keg
What do you weigh? Yeah you can have the keg
220
Oh dude
You got, you got like I don't know 50 pounds on me man
*laughs*
For real
This will, three of these and I'm like tapping out
It's not like, this is not an infected beer or
like I'm not getting defects
No
it's just not a good recipe
Yeah there's just not a not a ton of flavor
Um with the ingredients that we used
Yeah
but maybe if you guys have some
recommendations we can look at it
another time and you know try again 
yeah
Cheers
see ya see ya
