Hello! This is JB with Austin Home Brew Supply.
I’m just wrapping up making our first batch
of extract based beer. I have just dissolved
oxygen into the wort. You can see it is nice
and foamy. That’s a good sign. I got a lot
of oxygen dissolved. You can see it actually
almost in suspension there, so that’s a
great sign. You want a lot of dissolved oxygen
at this point. Now, I took my solid stopper
off. Now, I have the one with a hole in it.
This does come with equipment kit and of course,
everything is sanitized. Put that guy there,
then I got my air lock. Inside of it is what
is called the bell. You got the air lock body,
the bell inside of it, and then the cap. Put
the air lock in right that. I’m going to
fill it about a third full of water or sanitizing
solution. About like that, right in there.
Then you take your lid, and snap it on the
top. That’s it for making the beer on day
one. This is what’s going to go on from
here. This beer will ferment for a week in
the primary fermenter. Then, I’ll use my
siphoning equipment; my siphon hose and my
auto-siphon to transfer, or rack. We have
some goofy terms in this business. Racking
is to transfer, so we’ll rack the beer from
the primary to a secondary fermenter, which
will be another glass container. Most of fermentation
happens here in the first week. The second
week, will be for clearing the beer in the
secondary fermenter. Then, we’re going to
take it into a bottling bucket, add another
dose of sugar called priming sugar, put it
in the bottles, and use your bottle fillers.
Bottle filler fills the bottles. Caps going
on top of the bottles. Capper puts the caps
on. Then three weeks later, you will refrigerate
one of the bottles overnight, then hopefully
you’ll pour it and you’ll love it, and
that will be your first beer. That is as simple
as it is. This has been John Brack, once again
I go by JB, Austin Home Brew Supply. You can
find this on the web at www.austinhomebrewsupply.com,
or in North Austin at 7951 Burnett Road. Our
phone number is 512-300-BREW. We really appreciate
you watching, thank you so much.
