Welcome back everybody so today I wanted
to go over what was in the Mr. Beer
equipment kit now we do have some stuff
coming up on the channel Steve will be
back we're gonna start brewing a lot of
test batches so we're gonna start out
with like some smash beers so single
malt single hop we're gonna run through
those and then we're gonna start
progressing and making recipes but we
talked about it and I didn't want to do
a full five gallons of beer because
maybe something we're not gonna like and
then we're gonna have five gallons and
we're not gonna be able to get rid of it
and we are also gonna do between two and
four beers at a time so I went on Amazon
looking around and I was trying to find
some smaller fermenters usually you do
not want that much headspace in your
fermenter and some of these like three
gallons were three gallon fermenter
we're like forty to sixty dollars and
then I ran across this I'm sure most you
are aware of Mr. Beer but they have a
whole bunch of different kits you can
get one that does have some ingredients
or the the grains or extract and the
hops and everything to brew a beer or
you can get the equipment kit I did open
the top I haven't looked in here but
what you get as what it says on here
this will make 22 servings the mr. beer
actual fermenter is for two gallons
we're gonna do about a little over Gail
on one point to five gallons going into
this maybe we'll raise it to 1.5 but I
am working on one today to test this out
I've never used it so if you guys have
leave a comment down below but you do
get bottles with it you do get the
fermenter this was 30 bucks I'll leave a
link to Amazon down below if you want to pick
it up but continue to watch these videos
as we will come out with beers that have
been brewed in this and we will review
it more once we get used to it
so if we do open it hopefully all this
is on screen you do get these big
bottles ain't there are like twenty-two
months I don't know if it says it
doesn't say obviously they are plastic
now you might not want to use these
depending on what you're gonna do I'm
just gonna take them all out of here cuz
they're all over the place there we go
let's see if we can get this out okay
we're back I wasn't gonna let you guys
listen to that rumble and jumble so
let's go ahead and get the rest of these
bottles out there we go so we do get two
four six eight ten eleven bottles inside
here is all the caps for the bottles
itself I'm pretty sure you can buy
replacement caps if you wanted to go
ahead and use these I am gonna use these
bottles on the first couple batches just
to see how they come out and if they
come out just fine maybe we'll keep
using them as we're going I'm just gonna
set those off to the side we do have the
tap kit that does go on to one of these
that does go into this and I believe the
good part about this is once you get it
on there and your beers done if you
don't have to go into secondary it is
barbed no it's not barbed I thought
there was a piece I thought you could
just hook up to it and go ahead and go
into the bottles but
might have to read some more I thought
that's what I read on the thing we do
have some carbonation drops we will use
these as I didn't want I wanted to try
and go from fermenter right into bottles
because then that way I don't have to
worry about making a up a solution of
sugar and water cooling it down mixing
it doing all that I wanted to use drops
oh that is cool that they did come with
this on the back these are 25 ounce
bottles by the back of this so you will
use 2 of these I'm just gonna say
carbonation drops priming sugar drops
whatever you want to call them into each
of these bottles if you had a 12 ounce
bottle you would just use one and that's
what I was thinking but like I said we
are gonna use these so we'll use two of
these carbonation drops in each of those
the cool part about this also as you
will see there is not a airlock and what
it is is on the top of this I'll try and
put a picture there's two recessed let's
say slots in this that will allow for
the yeast to do what it needs to and put
off those gases and they will come out
now the thing I don't know about this is
because I've never used it can stuff get
back in there my guess is no but we will
have to see about that but yeah it's all
plastic I do like how it is a tan dark
color to keep that light out usually
what I do is I put a sweatshirt over my
car boys if I'm using like a glass one
but this I'll probably just lay a
blanket or something over you do get
instructions with this you do get a
whole crap ton of stickers I guess you
could put all over the side of this if
you really wanted to it does show you
how to install the tap so that's good
I dunno some boil kettles and stuff like
that do not come with a instruction
sheet so this is cool the washer and
spigots going to go on the outside the
nut will go on to the inside some more
literature it does tell you how to
carbonate stuff but again like I said
for us what we wanted to do was all
grained and maybe some act extract smash
beers and step them up and compare what
the hops do between certain grain so
like we're gonna start with R Arturo and
with Maris Otter and kind of go through
the normal type of hops
so like Citra galaxy Simcoe Amarillo and
maybe some cascade Centennial ones like
that and just do smash beers comparing
like a rawr - ROH verse mare solder we
will probably mix in some other grains
into those smash beers then we might add
some 20 L 30 L 40 L just to see what we
can do with those beers but we wanted to
get back into actually brewing and
experimenting and we think that starting
at the base like we did at the very
beginning is a good place to start but
yeah I I think for 30 bucks as long as
this thing works I think it is something
good I know a lot of people can't brew
5 gallon batches if you're an apartment
or something like that so this might be
a way to make a ton of different beers
that you can make quickly or aged them
over time but it'll still let you brew
beer and this was a kit that I thought
that would work because this should
usually I get six to eight twelve ounce
bottles when I make it one gallon batch
and we didn't want to use a one gallon
glass carboy as we were afraid there
wouldn't be an
room for that yeast to work and if it
moved up too far we would explode every
single one of them so having a little
bit more room is good is it gonna be too
much I don't think so but we might step
up to two gallon batches but right now
we're gonna go into this fermenter with
1.25 gallons so if there's any smash
combinations you want to see leave a
comment down below and we will try and
get to that like I said we're gonna try
and do a whole bunch of them get back to
the basics learn what those hops do in
certain grains or extracts or compare
like a all grain verson extract and see
does the body change does the flavor
change what changes in there when you're
going from an all grain to an extract so
link down below to this if you guys want
to pick one of these up and do some of
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