Hello everybody welcome back to another
episode of HHMtv. Brock, Chris, and Kyle
with you and today a very special
experience Chris. Oh yeah.
We're brewing beer. I know you like it. I
do, I love science so I'm
my wheelhouse right now. Yeah, Kyle you're excited right? I like beer. There you go.
Stay tuned.
Welcome to Gnometown Brewing
Company. My name is Bradly, I'll be your
brewmaster today.
I'm gonna try the Rich Girl. You can't
play that! I'm gonna try the Founders by Reibgeist. I said that wrong, didn't I?
I'm gonna try the Prescription
because I'm addicted to this place.
Chris may I say that your hair looks fantastic today? Thank you. I'm gonna be trying the
Imperial Porter because it looks pretty
robust. Have any of us ever brewed before?
First time ever, awesome. Excellent! Happy to have you here today. If you'd all like
to join me over at the kettles we'll go
and get started there. So we have about
22 pounds of grain in this bucket here.
That is about 90 percent of our base
malt, and then we do have a little bit of
caramel malt in there. This is gonna
give you all of your color, all of your
flavor, and also all of your alcohol
content at the end of the day. So during
this process we are going to be stirring
for about an hour. Now we don't have to
stir this entire hour if we don't
want to. However I do suggest you come up every 10 to 15 minutes to give this a
good stir. If we do stir for that
entire hour you are going to be pulling
out more of those fermentable sugars,
which means they're gonna have a little
bit of a higher ABV in your beer. I tell
you what Kyle there's one thing I know
about you is that you're always down to
stir the pot. Did you see Chris's red
pants today?
Kyle what are you doing? You're always
stirring the pot.
So one thing that's really awesome about
this area too man is just this
location of it. Downtown man perfect place to get to. You can park right along the
street, it's awesome. I agree, hey speaking
of that Chris, I mean this is a three
hour brewing session do you need to
feed the meter? I didn't feed it the
first time! That's gonna cost you $12.95. I
wouldn't bet you that's probably it. Hey what's the
verdict? They got me man. I got you a beer though, that means you're good.
All right cool what makes up. We
call this step sparging. Sparging? Sparging.
Okay.
That sounds fierce. Hey you sparge bro?
Do you even sparge?
What I'll be doing here in a few minutes is taking these grains out.
Then you'll help me rinse these off with some nice hot water.
Now is there a chance we could scald
ourselves? I like to up the element of danger.
There's definitely that possibility but we
definitely make sure to take precautions
Here at HHMtv, we take risks.
You gotta take risks when you're making beer. It's science.
Yeah, in the name of science. So the hops that
we're using today are Chinook for our
bittering. They're notorious for
grapefruit, a little bit of spice and
pine, definitely got to smell those.
They smell wonderful.
Now what's this? I'm sorry what's this in
the middle? So this here this is called
Irish Moss. It kind of smells like fish food.
Oh yeah. It's a fining agent we
actually use that. A Fining Agent? Yes.
We actually use that to help clarify our
beer. And then our last one there are
Citrus hops. Some grapefruit, melon, very
bright and floral. Those are definitely one
of my favorite hops to use, and those
will be going in at the very end of our boil today.
I'm loving the process. We're making beer.
We'll see how it turns out. I think it's gonna be good.
Chris where your thoughts so far? I dunno about
you, but I wanna be the guy drinking out of the Ehrlenmeyer Flask though.
All right so we are ready to move on to
our next step in the brewing process
Our Brew's a-boilin'! Oh yes it is go wild over here. We are going to be adding in our
hop additions.
Alright well I think we
should at least take a little bit of
time here to mention that they are right
beside the Hoppy Gnome here which is a
source of some incredible food here
downtown right? Yeah one in the same on
the company, so happy Nome is known for the tacos first and foremost. Over 15
different varieties of tacos. I have
three here, the Bob Marley is my favorite.
That's a taco with a little bit of of spice a little pepper a
little pineapple. Do you like it spicy
Brock? You know sometimes I do Kyle. Nice.
You got the steak and pasta. I do. It looks
amazing. So actually when I was back
there in the kitchen filming this I
saw this being prepared and I
didn't know it was mine. And, I started taking compliments on it,
and then the next thing you know I
realized it was mine. Sounds like you're in for a
treat. I think I think so.
So we're about 10 minutes outside of our
boil which is gonna conclude our boil process for the day. But, before that we are gonna
be adding what we call Irish Moss. This is
a fining agent. It is made out of Red
Sea Kelp. This will help us clarify the
beer. It smells awful to be honest. Oh it
does, it does not smell great, but you
won't taste any of that. You won't smell any of
that in the beer itself. Okay. This is to
help us just clarify the beer for you.
We want to keep it nice and small.
We want to make sure that people are
coming in and experiencing us as a whole. Not just going out to liquor store.
However I will say that we do have
growlers available so you're able to
come in and get a nice growler full of
any of the beers that we brew. So we are
ready to add our last hop addition this
hop addition that we're going to be adding
lastly is for aroma. You won't get any kind
of bittering out of this at all. It's
purely for the scent of the beer.
So if you guys would like do the honors of
adding that last hop addition, that'd be great.
I think, I think this me this time.
Yeah Kyle, go ahead and do this, this time man.
Do you ever feel like just this warlock
in the cauldron? Oh, all the time. Just creating the dastardly deeds.
Alright so this is gonna
do it for part one at Gnometown Brewing
Company. Chris did this satisfy your
inner scientist? It did, it did. It took
me back to the old chemistry days. So it
was a lot of fun. Yeah that's great.
Kyle, you like beer. You have a good time?
I enjoyed the beer very much. The food.
The steak pasta was amazing as well. So
thank you I appreciate everything. Yeah
we had a great time. We want to thank the
folks at Hoppy Gnome and Gnometown Brewing
Company. Bradly, our brewmaster, thank you so much. Now before we queue up part 2.
Yep. Tell folks a little bit about what
they'll see in the second part. What our
beer is gonna be going through from this
point forward. Sounds good.
So here going forward we are going to be
going into our fermentation process.
We'll be adding some active dry yeast
and moving it into a room that is light
and temperature controlled, at all times. It'll be there for about seven to ten days and
then we'll go into our cold crashing
process, which will allow us to a drop
out any extra yeast particles or hot
particles in in the wort. From there
we're gonna be going into bottling which
is a really great process. A lot of fun
as well. During that process we're gonna
give you anywhere between 40 and 42
20-ounce bottles. Quite a bit of beer.
Around five gallons. Yeah so nice thing
for all of you viewers out there is
Chris it's... Contest time.
Okay so Kyle what do we want folks to do
to win this experience? Absolutely so
what you want to do is that you want to
share this video and then you want to
click the link to register to win and
also tag your friends below so they can
see this as well. Because if they win, you
win as well, because you can join. So
that's gonna do it for another episode
of HHMtv. I'm Brock, he's Chris, he's
Kyle. I'm Bradly. Go find the great
things in your community.
We'll see you next time.
