- Hey, how you doing?
You've brewed some beer, yay.
Or you're thinking about
brewing some beer, yay, yay.
And you wanna learn more, right?
Now, the goal here is
fermented beer into bottle
so you can drink that beer
and it'll taste really good.
It will taste good.
You'll be totally fine with this.
When I first started home-brewing beer,
I was always kinda sweating the details,
and I just finally realized I
could relax and it'll be okay.
So I wanna take you today
on a little bit of a trip,
five things that I have learned to make
going from this to this
to this a lot easier.
Oh, that really, you can smell the hops.
That's really cool.
All right, ready?
Here we go.
GardenFork, making things, making food.
If I can do it, you can do it.
Okay, put that,
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go over there and get your toy.
So the first one is brilliant to me
because these are a pain to wash, right?
You've got a bottle washer right here.
It's your dishwasher.
Right, Charlie?
This is actually a bottle
washer and a sanitizer in one.
We're gonna just fill this
whole rack with bottles
and run it on a short cycle,
but be sure to have the
heated dry turned on
because that steams the
bottles and sanitizes them.
I didn't know this for a long time.
Dishwasher is a bottle washer,
and that's a beautiful thing.
By the way, if you're
interested in building
a butcher block kitchen island,
I made a video about how I built this,
so the link will be in
the show notes underneath.
But bottles in, on, go.
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I know you're excited, but
I have to brew the beer.
I mean, I have to bottle the beer, okay?
These sometimes can be really
hard to get off, right?
Your labels, 'cause you're gonna
recycle bottles to use for beer bottles.
I have found that an oxygen cleanser,
OxiClean, they're all
called Oxi-something,
couple cups of this and a
big trashcan of warm water,
soak these for a couple
days, they'll come right off.
Avoid foil labels.
There are certain beers that have
a really shiny fancy label.
They're a pain to get off.
They're just not worth the trouble.
Some of them like this Guinness one
is actually a shrink wrap plastic label.
Careful because you have a knife.
This comes off like that.
(label crinkling)
Boom, done.
(igniter clicks)
(flame crackles)
(water splashes)
One pint of water, four
ounces of priming sugar.
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Put that heat up.
Don't burn it, okay?
All right, good to go.
Bottling bucket.
(water splashes)
So our next step is put your priming sugar
in the bottom of your
bottling bottling bucket.
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And that has a really cool smell.
You're like, oh, that smells like beer,
and you made it in your house.
I love that, super excited.
By the way, when you're gonna
move your fermentation bucket
to do your bottling,
move it the day before,
put it where you're gonna
bottle, and let it settle again
so all the spent yeast,
and hops, and everything
are down at the bottom of the fermenter.
This is my next tip.
This is, I think it's
called a bottling tube.
I will look up the word.
But it has a little
clip so this can go down
and not hit the bottom of the bucket.
It'll sit just above the
bottom of the bucket,
so this won't suck up all the sediment
that's at the bottom of the bucket.
Just you can adjust by
this clip how far down
it goes on your bucket here like that.
Okay, my hand is on the end of the tube.
We're filled with water.
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That goes in.
That's quite a bit of length here,
and then I'm gonna put that clip-on,
and that clip, I can adjust.
Ooh, look, it's already draining,
so I let my finger off here.
Uh-oh, (laughs) sorry.
All right, so this clip
will allow me to adjust
how far this tube goes into
the bottom of the bucket.
Let's put this in our bottling bucket.
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Hello, my little girl.
How are you?
You don't wanna say hello?
That would be a no, I guess, okay.
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Okay, we're done here, we're done here.
And my assistant is here, hello.
See, that's the spent sediment
that we want to keep out of
our bottling bucket here.
Okay.
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Bottling tip has a little
spring valve in it.
Press it down, fills the bottle.
Let up, bottle stops filling, that is.
Let me show you.
Press this into your bottle,
press this tip down, and that fills up.
When you wanna be done, let that up.
Press it down, fills
up, let it up, it stops.
That's nice.
I mean, this is just one
of those kinda moments
where you've made this thing.
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Oh, that's gonna be good.
That's gonna taste good in a bottle.
It needs a little of
what's called conditioning
in the bottle, but it'll...
All right, next tip.
Hello.
I have to work right now, okay?
It's kinda hard to say no to you.
This is in the bottom of this,
so you're drinking this, ooh. (spits)
And this, you just throw back
into your milk crate, or
your case, or whatever,
and then you gotta clean
it like in a couple months
to make some more, right?
Here we go.
(water rushing)
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If you rinse this out now
when you're done drinking,
it's one less thing to do when you bottle.
What do you think?
Let me know in the comments.
I'll see you in the next video right here,
a bunch of how to home-brew
stuff, how to bottle,
how to make beer, hard cider,
all sorts of cool stuff.
Because I learn from you,
I wanna hear from you in the comments.
Thanks, I'll see you.
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