Liquid yeast is available in many more nuanced styles than dry yeast, which is why we said it's "better" in this video. Dry yeast does just as good of a job making high quality beer as liquid yeast, and in that respect neither option outperform the other.
I started making wine about 5 years ago. I never really liked wine, but my 18-20% fruit drink, on ice, is awesome! Made my 1st beer a cpl years back. Good Stuff!! Then I got a little air still for Father's Day last year, 2019 and Wow ! Here in Missouri it's legal to home distill, so it's all good 👍 I watched this video and have already ordered this starter kit. I've been using a nice stainless steel, 6 gallon cook pot, but the bag is really a PAIN and I have been unable to find a suitable basket. Been surfing the Clawhammer website for awhile looking at stills etc.... But I must have missed this brew system up til tonight. Love it !! I plan to upgrade my still soon, really like a few I have seen on your site. Good things come to those who wait 😉 THANK YOU CLAWHAMMER 👍👍
Same here! I use berries, my favorite is 2/3 black 1/3 blue (and a little rassberry if I have some). Doesn't have that "stickiness" thatnstore wine has and best of all, no hangovers or sleepy headaches that I almost always get from store bought
You do not need that expensive equipment. Buy two big kitchen soup pots, a big nylon bag for BIAB, a digital mass balance, two plastic 6gal buckets (one with a spigot), bottle drying tree, auto siphon with hose, bottling wand, and a bench bottle capper. Thats it. For extract brewing, you don't need that enormous grain basket or a nice brew kettle. A nylon bag is smaller and cheaper. One pot I use for the boil. The other pot is for putting the grain bag over a sieve and washing it. Another tip i can give you is to not add all the water into the boil. Make a concentrate wort and dump the hot wort into the sanitized fermenter. Fill the fermenter up to the batch volume with ice for super fast cooling. I add half volume of ice for my wort. Wait for it to reach 70C and dump in that yeast starter. Shake and seal it!
@@MzaAndy Easy now guys ;-). There are a few styles that need the specific liquid strains. Hefeweizens, Saisons and Kolschs come to mind. But yes, generally most styles the dry yeasts are adequate. Cheerz
mittelfruh BE-134 is a good dry saison yeast. Homebrewing is scary for beginners and you shouldn’t freak them out by saying one is overall better than the other when it’s untrue.
I should have clarified. The point I was making is that you can make more nuanced beer with liquid simply because there are more styles to choose from. Not that liquid versus dry will do a better job of fermenting the beer with fewer flavors.
Why is it required to boil the extract for 55 minutes? Isn't the LME already essentially mashed and just needs to be diluted to be a wort ready ferment?
Considering the starter system so I can gradually acquire the equipment for full grain. As of now I’m still brewing beer recipe extract kits from my “local” brew supply store. It’s a lot of fun and a lot of work brewing your own beer, even if it’s extract brewing. No gravity reading before the pitch? Quick question, does the valve in the starter kit have the quick connects?
The star san is partly sulfonic acid which likely impacts the taste of the beer. Just try drinking some of your star-san solution mixed with water and see how you like it.
I have been a extract brewer since 94 and I still can not afford a system like that. $350.00 + you still need a fermenter and bottling bucket. I admit it does look nice and shiny. First time brewer should never start with a system like this for extract. ( Overkill ). People think about what you are going to do before you purchase equipment. Extract Brewer for Life !!
Superb idea that starter system, fellows! On a vaguely related topic, since I first saw you doing that a few videos ago, I started using the grain basket on my CHS system for hopping, and I feel my hop utilization has gone for the better. It also somewhat simplifies cleaning, since I started, at the same time, using my old Brew Bag® for the mash (idea from Brülosophy). First time was a bit of a mess: on my 110v system the lid wasn't cracked open sufficiently (I used the grain basket support thingies to keep it slightly elevated, but that created much less space than the hop basket), resulting in condensation forming a small lake on my table. Also, my brew bag (still ®) got partially ripped by the mesh of the grain basket, as it has a lot of loose wires at the top. While we are on the subject of perfectibles, I'd really have liked my kettle to have a liter (or quart) scale, rather than just gallons. Eye-balling my water amounts, especially while brewing small batches, is a bit of a headache! Hope that helps somehow!
Thanks for the correction. After reading this comment I flew into a rage and fired the entire video editing staff. These types of mistakes will not happen again.
Agreed. And we're sorry about that. We'll make sure the next video is weird AF, and that we also forget ingredients and spill a bunch of stuff! We're better at that.
Hahahaha. I think this would be a great time to step up the weird! Speaking of weird, what happened to that guy with the dark long hair and a beard? I liked him. He's weird, put him back in coach
Ayyyy. Let me just say how much i love your business ethos compared to that of kegland. You show pride in the engineering and safety and that's super important. Kegland just mass produces junk with obvious engineering flaws that were never tested and expects the customer to figure it out. My entire setup is kegland, but that's only because clawhammer doesn't have any presence in Thailand. I really was impressed when you delayed shipping items to build a safer product for the customer. That's pride in design work and 100% respectable in my eyes. Every fermzilla add on has a unique unresolved design flaw that never got fixed before release. All lids, the thermowell, and the placement of chilling coil are laughably bad configuration. I own all the lids, the thermowell, the hop bong, and every supporting product for fermzilla and most of it is utter trash. The spunding valve is a nice product though.
This is basic method that I use for my stovetop partial mash extract batches. It’s suited just fine to a first time brewer. The folks getting uptight about the yeast debate are being overly pedantic. Brewers will discover the pros and cons for each as they learn.
Carbonating in the keg with the off gassing of co2 from the yeast would require spunding valve, which most home brewers will probably skip. It’s a cool method, and I agree it should be adopted more, but kegging and bottling are just too prevalent, and are easily accomplished without special equipment or closed transfers.
Please don't tell people liquid is better than dried. They are applicable in different situations. US-05 is a phenomenal dried yeast that requires no starter and works just as well, if not better, than comparable liquid (WLP001, Wyeast 1056). Additionally, it's best practice to add 10% of your LME or DME @ 60 minutes to aid in hop utilization. With 5-10 minutes left in the boil, add the rest of your extract. Not only does this get to your target OG, your beer will be at the SRM recommended for the style.
Liquid yeast is available in many more nuanced styles than dry yeast, which is why we said it's "better" in this video. Dry yeast does just as good of a job making high quality beer as liquid yeast, and in that respect neither option outperform the other.
Right, I've basically just binge watched all of your videos... so make some more, please... for me.
I started making wine about 5 years ago. I never really liked wine, but my 18-20% fruit drink, on ice, is awesome! Made my 1st beer a cpl years back. Good Stuff!! Then I got a little air still for Father's Day last year, 2019 and Wow ! Here in Missouri it's legal to home distill, so it's all good 👍 I watched this video and have already ordered this starter kit. I've been using a nice stainless steel, 6 gallon cook pot, but the bag is really a PAIN and I have been unable to find a suitable basket. Been surfing the Clawhammer website for awhile looking at stills etc.... But I must have missed this brew system up til tonight. Love it !! I plan to upgrade my still soon, really like a few I have seen on your site. Good things come to those who wait 😉 THANK YOU CLAWHAMMER 👍👍
Same here! I use berries, my favorite is 2/3 black 1/3 blue (and a little rassberry if I have some). Doesn't have that "stickiness" thatnstore wine has and best of all, no hangovers or sleepy headaches that I almost always get from store bought
You do not need that expensive equipment. Buy two big kitchen soup pots, a big nylon bag for BIAB, a digital mass balance, two plastic 6gal buckets (one with a spigot), bottle drying tree, auto siphon with hose, bottling wand, and a bench bottle capper. Thats it. For extract brewing, you don't need that enormous grain basket or a nice brew kettle. A nylon bag is smaller and cheaper. One pot I use for the boil. The other pot is for putting the grain bag over a sieve and washing it.
Another tip i can give you is to not add all the water into the boil. Make a concentrate wort and dump the hot wort into the sanitized fermenter. Fill the fermenter up to the batch volume with ice for super fast cooling. I add half volume of ice for my wort. Wait for it to reach 70C and dump in that yeast starter. Shake and seal it!
Proud owner - first brew day with the new system is tomorrow, Blonde Ale
Do you not need to add sugar?
Do you offer that grain basket in other sizes? I have a Brewer's Edge Mash & Boil and I don't like the stock basket.
There’s no rule that says liquid yeast is better than dry. You can make great beer with either.
I can't believe that misconception is still floating out there after all these years.
@@MzaAndy Easy now guys ;-). There are a few styles that need the specific liquid strains. Hefeweizens, Saisons and Kolschs come to mind. But yes, generally most styles the dry yeasts are adequate. Cheerz
mittelfruh BE-134 is a good dry saison yeast. Homebrewing is scary for beginners and you shouldn’t freak them out by saying one is overall better than the other when it’s untrue.
@@mittelfruh Kölsches work perfectly with K-97 in my experience
I should have clarified. The point I was making is that you can make more nuanced beer with liquid simply because there are more styles to choose from. Not that liquid versus dry will do a better job of fermenting the beer with fewer flavors.
Very nice set. How do I inter the give away?
Why is it required to boil the extract for 55 minutes? Isn't the LME already essentially mashed and just needs to be diluted to be a wort ready ferment?
Considering the starter system so I can gradually acquire the equipment for full grain. As of now I’m still brewing beer recipe extract kits from my “local” brew supply store. It’s a lot of fun and a lot of work brewing your own beer, even if it’s extract brewing. No gravity reading before the pitch? Quick question, does the valve in the starter kit have the quick connects?
The star san is partly sulfonic acid which likely impacts the taste of the beer. Just try drinking some of your star-san solution mixed with water and see how you like it.
Can y’all do a video on Czech Pilsner? Please and thanks
I have been a extract brewer since 94 and I still can not afford a system like that.
$350.00 + you still need a fermenter and bottling bucket.
I admit it does look nice and shiny.
First time brewer should never start with a system like this for extract. ( Overkill ).
People think about what you are going to do before you purchase equipment.
Extract Brewer for Life !!
Glass carboys are definitely all I can afford right now
Superb idea that starter system, fellows!
On a vaguely related topic, since I first saw you doing that a few videos ago, I started using the grain basket on my CHS system for hopping, and I feel my hop utilization has gone for the better. It also somewhat simplifies cleaning, since I started, at the same time, using my old Brew Bag® for the mash (idea from Brülosophy). First time was a bit of a mess: on my 110v system the lid wasn't cracked open sufficiently (I used the grain basket support thingies to keep it slightly elevated, but that created much less space than the hop basket), resulting in condensation forming a small lake on my table. Also, my brew bag (still ®) got partially ripped by the mesh of the grain basket, as it has a lot of loose wires at the top.
While we are on the subject of perfectibles, I'd really have liked my kettle to have a liter (or quart) scale, rather than just gallons. Eye-balling my water amounts, especially while brewing small batches, is a bit of a headache!
Hope that helps somehow!
I was watching an old video about harvesting yeast and I was wondering if you should not be using an isotonic solution instead of distilled water?
Okay, I’m completely clueless here. I’ve never made mead or any of that before. But is this like the same concept as a sourdough starter for bread…?
Does this kettle is compatible with induction cooktop?
Rough cost of shipping to Australia?
"Nice job, I'm proud of you" ahahaha
It is a pity that in Brazil such equipment is so expensive.
I noticed you wrote to mix 0.5 oz of Stars San with 2.5 oz of water when it should be 2.5 gallons. Otherwise, great video!
Thanks for the correction. After reading this comment I flew into a rage and fired the entire video editing staff. These types of mistakes will not happen again.
That was waaaay to professional! Haha
Agreed. And we're sorry about that. We'll make sure the next video is weird AF, and that we also forget ingredients and spill a bunch of stuff! We're better at that.
Hahahaha. I think this would be a great time to step up the weird! Speaking of weird, what happened to that guy with the dark long hair and a beard? I liked him. He's weird, put him back in coach
Ayyyy. Let me just say how much i love your business ethos compared to that of kegland. You show pride in the engineering and safety and that's super important. Kegland just mass produces junk with obvious engineering flaws that were never tested and expects the customer to figure it out. My entire setup is kegland, but that's only because clawhammer doesn't have any presence in Thailand. I really was impressed when you delayed shipping items to build a safer product for the customer. That's pride in design work and 100% respectable in my eyes. Every fermzilla add on has a unique unresolved design flaw that never got fixed before release. All lids, the thermowell, and the placement of chilling coil are laughably bad configuration. I own all the lids, the thermowell, the hop bong, and every supporting product for fermzilla and most of it is utter trash. The spunding valve is a nice product though.
This is basic method that I use for my stovetop partial mash extract batches. It’s suited just fine to a first time brewer. The folks getting uptight about the yeast debate are being overly pedantic. Brewers will discover the pros and cons for each as they learn.
It would be neat if you naturally carbonated the batch of beer in a keg to show us newbies how it’s done.
Carbonating in the keg with the off gassing of co2 from the yeast would require spunding valve, which most home brewers will probably skip. It’s a cool method, and I agree it should be adopted more, but kegging and bottling are just too prevalent, and are easily accomplished without special equipment or closed transfers.
Perfect brewing !!!!
Please don't tell people liquid is better than dried. They are applicable in different situations. US-05 is a phenomenal dried yeast that requires no starter and works just as well, if not better, than comparable liquid (WLP001, Wyeast 1056).
Additionally, it's best practice to add 10% of your LME or DME @ 60 minutes to aid in hop utilization. With 5-10 minutes left in the boil, add the rest of your extract. Not only does this get to your target OG, your beer will be at the SRM recommended for the style.
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beer from extract it's sucks
You can make fantastic beer with extract.
Only if you make sucky extract beer. Plenty of great beer can be made either AG, or partial mash, LME, etc.
underpitching