This is the next segment on brewing. I’m
JB with Austin Home Brew Supply. Our equipment
kit has everything you need except for the
stockpot and bottles. Those things are…I’m
just going to go down one by one…The plastic
primary fermenter, it’s a plastic bucket
is all it is, but it’s food grade plastic.
What you do want to do with this is pre-measure
it. You want to measure out five gallons of
water and put a line across it, and then one
more gallon and put another line across it.
You’ll know where your five gallon mark
is and your six gallon mark. This here is
called an airlock. The airlock, you would
fill about a third full of water. This will
allow CO2 gas to escape but it won’t allow
anything else to get into the bucket and contaminate
the beer. The other things we have are the
auto-siphon. The auto-siphon is a siphon starter.
It will attach to the siphon hose. The siphon
hose will come off the front of the auto-siphon,
and you’ll pump it a couple of times and
it gets your siphon going for you. This is
the stuff you need to move it from point A
to point B. The next thing is a bottle filler.
It has got a spring loaded tip on it. The
bottle filler, used on bottling day in order
to fill the bottles from the bottom up. When
you depress it, it fills the bottle. It starts
from the bottom, pushing the air out of the
top because the air is bad once we are going
into the bottle. A couple other things are
the sanitizing agent, which we use a little
bit earlier for sanitizing my wort chiller,
as we speak. Also, a grain bag for keeping
the grains in the very first step of the process.
There is also a couple of different guides
that we have. This is the one that I really
like, it’s a beginner’s guide to home
brewing. This is from Brew Around magazine.
It’ll tell you everything you need to know;
breaks it all down, item by item what you
need to know. The other cool kicker about
this one is if you flip it over it will tell
you about wine making too, but that it really
goes into good depth about home brewing. There
is your guide. A couple of test instruments.
One of them is the thermometer itself. We
have discussed a little bit earlier, but this
is a floating thermometer, it comes with a
system. This is a hydrometer. Hydrometer will
check the specific gravity, which basically
is a density of a liquid versus water. The
specific gravity is going to enable us to
know what’s going on with the yeast process.
When the yeast begins to eat the sugar, they’re
going to decrease the specific gravity, so
this instrument will enable us to know what’s
happening with the fermentation process. A
few more things, after you fill your bottle
with your bottle filler, you need to put a
cap on them. It comes with caps and this is
a capper, it actually puts it right onto the
bottle. A spoon comes with this system; I’ve
been using it earlier. Your carboy and your
carboy stopper. That’s the equipment and
that wraps up this segment.
