I haven't brewed privately, but worked in a small local brewery for a while. Lots of lifting and carrying heavy bags and sooo much cleaning, but fun and interesting to try.
Yeast is making two kinds of beer right now. They're fermenting in the living room. I just added extra hops during the ferment of an IPA before watching this video. It was cool to see beer made with proper equipment. 😅
Here for the beer content! And the Matt Grey enthusiasm for the subject. Nicely explained process. Hope there is a follow up video tasting the beer made. Cheers and enjoy the beer #Disco
I'm always wary about assuming someone's online persona lines up with how they really are off-camera, but either Matt is a surprisingly convincing actor or they're just genuinely one of the most delightful people I've seen ...now if only I could maintain anything close to that level of bubbly enthusiasm 😅
I've got to say that even more than the rest of the series, this one really shows off how good you are at summarising knowledge. The number of times I was "I think I understand what he's saying...." only for you to clarify it perfectly was really noticeable. Great work conveying what's going on to the layman as it were. 😀
As a food scientist, i really appreciate episodes like this where you can see the importance of hygiene and knowing your process and product. I love how you caught on on how well controlled everything is, and that there's a lot of science behind making a consistently good beer. If you do get a chance to see a bottling plant at work, make sure to check it out because it looks really impressive. Yes, this is where the product gets made, but you can't see much happening, during filling and labelling you see a lot of incredibly finely choreographed movement.
Matt, you've never driven a forklift until you've driven one with 72 inch forks trying to lift standard pallets... and put the blades through the wall on the other side. At an old job, my boss got tired of us forking the walls between us and the neighbors and chewed us out one day. Not five minutes later, he hops on the forklift to pick up a skid in order to place it on a delivery truck... and forked the walls. We all got one free stab at the walls after that.
I gotta say some things about Ben. Firstly he;s a pretty good teacher, dude was patient as hell and was able to explain it all very clearly and concisely while allowing you to actively do things as you learn, and he sounds like Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe).
I had lots of neat little aha! moments in here. “But if they use the same water for sterilizing and brewing won’t that mean the chemicals end up in the beer” … “Ohhhh it’s sterilized via temperature not chemicals!”
We need a follow up episode where you taste the beer and Ben tells us more about low alcohol beer and how that is different (significantly so I would imagine) from stronger beer that has been converted to lower (or no) alcohol. I have a weird taste in beers, I like the really strong Belgian type AND then some low to ultra-low alcohol. Alcohol free is seldom that good, but 0.5 to 2-3 % can be lovely. I fear the hype about alcohol free is killing many nice brews :-(.
Is alcohol free this much of an hype in some places? There is like two big bear maker who makes them and all the other just store brand ones. I have yet to see any small brewer make/sell anything alcohol free.
Those hoses looking new is no accident, they have to be replaced regularly, as they also get sterilised in boiling water, so they do degrade. That is why every part is stainless steel, and you strip it all apart so that all the dead spaces get cleaned as well, so as to not trap anything that might contaminate the beer.
This one probably ticked off a couple of series items, I would think that driving a forklift would have been a thing Matt would have done an episode for all on its own.
As a German, I can say: there's a lot of choices for beer, and Kölsch has to be my least favorite. But opinions are different, Flens was even worse. :D
Ben is great. Extremely knowledgeable and passionate about his craft. Love to see young people keeping old crafts alive. But I’m a bit disappointed you didn’t try the beer you made. I know that would have meant to wait a few weeks but it would have been a great ending to the video.
So glad you've made another one of these! Its one of my favorite series right now! Really hoping it goes big so you can keep making them! You deserve to.
I used to sub contract (IT) to a very large Brewery company in Burton. It was really interesting to see all of the equipment being used by Small Beer is literally smaller versions of the equipment said larger brewer uses in their breweries (with the exception of the kettles, which were beautiful copper kettles). I am thoroughly looking forward to the future video titled "Matt Gray is Trying a Pint of His Small Beer."
Great stuff, this is the best explanation of beer making that I have seen. What makes you so good at this kind of thing Matt, is that you are genuinely interested, you're not afraid to ask the 'stupid' questions, and you will keep asking things until you understand fully.
ohh, I'd also thought malts were totally different from "other grains", but they're just processed! The part about the hops was also really interesting, they're almost like tea leaves... I thought I don't like beers that are "hoppy" because they're bitter, but maybe now I can look for ones that have more of the hops added to the cooled concoction and see if they suit me better. Floral and citrusy are adjectives right up my alley 😄
Find out the IBU, International Bitterness Units, of the beers. High IBU will have more boiled hops, a low IBU "dry hopped" beer will have less bitterness but more of the hop flavors.
Love your videos, Matt. Perhaps as many, I've discovered you through Tom Scott (first, by seeing his videos a couple of years back, then viewing some (actually, quite a lot of the) Park Bench episodes, listening in to Tech Difficulties... Best of luck with what you do and wish to see more. All the best & greetings from LT. P.S. NordVPN/NordSecurity / Surfshark & others should definitely sponsor your content more frequently. You deserve viewership of millions! :)
Great video Matt! I look forward to catching up on the series. Ps it was great seeing you today at makers Central, thank you so much for giving us the time and being so kind. Cheers J
> It's like when you're at the zoo... And you see the animals taking care of their motions. > It is animal feed. > I was meaning it looks like poo. @ 16:40 Oh god I haven't laughed this much in quite some time!
I really can't imagine a video more comprehensively answering every question I had about beer. This entire series has been great, but Matt as interviewer was especially spot on - and credit to Ben for explaining things well. Nailed it.
The idea that people drank small beer because it was safer than water is PROBABLY a myth. The idea that dirty water is responsible for disease is, after all, very very modern indeed. People certainly did drink a lot of small/table beer, but the reasons were probably not to do with staying healthy. It is more likely that they drank it because it has some small calorific value, and tasted better than the available water sources.
It is certainly a myth that nobody drank water. Plenty of people had a supply of clean water - a well or a fast running stream - and they would happily drink it. The idea that diseases could be carried by water wasn't addressed scientifically until John Snow in 1855 when he mapped cholera cases in London and realised they were grouped around certain water sources, but people were certainly aware of the risks of bad water. They may not have realised that water could look clean and taste fine while still being full of bacteria, but they knew drinking obviously discoloured or bad tasting water would make you sick and that making it into tea or beer would prevent that.
We damn well better get at least a short on you tasting the pint of beer you helped make! :) I absolutely love the show, like others said, there's something inherently magical about seeing a grown man channel his inner child, AND inner nerd. Especially when you clearly share that energy with the craftsmen you visit, though that just might be the simple fact of working with people who Love what they do. :)
Erm... Sorry... You were betrayed! You were definitely not brewing Kölsch. Kölsch is a regional product and by definition and can only be brewed in the area of Cologne (Köln) with view of the Cologne Cathedral (Dom)
One of the best videos I've seen for a very long time (possibly helped by drinking a beer whilst watching how they make beer!) so thank you Matt! Matt's super inquisitive nature and Ben's outstanding ability to explain something complicated in simple terms (seriously, I cannot understate how good Ben was in this video!) made this a real treat to watch, thanks again.
I knew how to, (theoretically), make beer, but i heaven't seen it in action yet! This video learned me a lot about the process. Thank you Matt, (and your team), for producing, and Ben and 'Small beer' for sharing your knowledge!
Being a brewer looks like a fun job. Apart from all the physical labour and valve turning involved in the big industrial process, there are a lot of things in there that I as a chemistry student am very familiar with.
Ha! They really make small beer! I actually did start drinking mostly low alcohol beer, as a colleague and I found ourselves being close to being drunks (alcoholics have more money and maybe style). So we investigated alternatives. We still enjoy a drink or five on occasion.
Perfect telly for me. I'll pay on the patreon as soon as I can. Thankyou Matt. Also, similar vibes from the helicopter lesson to the forklift driving; have you played a lot of forklift sims too? 😊
21:39 Holy crap I have never seen a White Labs yeast pouch so big! They make some fantastic yeast strains. Their tasting rooms in Asheville and San Diego are great, they will do the same beer with 3 different yeasts to show off the flavor differences. Also they have some of the best pizza I have ever had. :)
No mention of the connection between a tun and a ton? Missed opportunity. The mash tun is named for the tun, a large barrel, that also was a unit of measure, usually about 250 gallons, so it would weigh a bit over 2000 lbs.
This was lovely to see, thanks :) Hope to see a follow-up sample session! FYI: the subtitles talk of 'molting' rather than 'malting', which (I thought) are two different things. ;)
this should be a publically funded show helping kids pick a career (theres something similar in switzerland, but not with an unexperienced person trying to do the job)
oooh, I think this might be the first video you've done that is a topic I actually know about! Brewing beer is fun. Designing beers is also fun. Many years ago I designed a Hefeweizen called Badger. We used locally sourced honey in the boil and ferment to give it a little extra. Was super proud of that brew. Got a lot of comments from neighbors and friends who tried it. Biggest batch I ever made was 5 gallons. For a time my room mate and I were looking into opening a microbrewery, but unfortunately that didn't ever go anywhere :(
I love this guys explanation of what beer is and how it’s made. He made it super accurate and simple. A kolsch is basically a German style that’s like a lager as an ale. 😮
Isn't the "people drank beer instead of water for hygiene reasons" a myth? People had wells to get clean water. Like, the whole cleaning process before starting to get good beer is evidence against that, no?
Yeah, pretty much. People did drink plenty of beer tho, because it had more nutrients than water. And when you're a medieval person with lots of work to do, why grab a drink of water and then have to eat something, when you can have a beer, which does both? Keep in mind, medieval beer had less alcohol and more nutrients in it, it pretty much was liquid bread.
I thought I already knew quite a bit about making beer, but this proved me wrong! Have you ever tried brewing your own?
Hi Matt. Amazing and interesting video as always!
I was wondering why the numbers at 6:20 were blurred out?
Cheers from Denmark!
Trade secrets!
I haven't brewed privately, but worked in a small local brewery for a while.
Lots of lifting and carrying heavy bags and sooo much cleaning, but fun and interesting to try.
Closest I've come is playing brewcrafters
Yeast is making two kinds of beer right now. They're fermenting in the living room.
I just added extra hops during the ferment of an IPA before watching this video.
It was cool to see beer made with proper equipment. 😅
That brewery is so thorough that the only infectious agent they didn't control for was Matt's enthusiasm
Ben seemed well in his element, both as brewer and teacher!
It was so good that you could lend a hand. I guess in the case of small beer, many hands make light wort.
Here for the beer content! And the Matt Grey enthusiasm for the subject. Nicely explained process. Hope there is a follow up video tasting the beer made. Cheers and enjoy the beer #Disco
This made me appreciate brewers so much I'd like to tip them for making my favorite beer.
I'm always wary about assuming someone's online persona lines up with how they really are off-camera, but either Matt is a surprisingly convincing actor or they're just genuinely one of the most delightful people I've seen
...now if only I could maintain anything close to that level of bubbly enthusiasm 😅
I did not realise there were so many stairs involved in brewing
This was interesting and informative. Thanks Matt.
"Small Beer Brewery" does what it says on the tin
Very impressive Matt thank you .
I see what you did there, matt. Outstanding in their field
What field was Matt out standing it? I thought he was inside at a Brewery.
I groaned out loud when he said that...
Matt looked incredibly pleased with himself for that.
Came into the comments to say this. Glad someone beat me to it!
21:45 The real question is, _Does It Soft Serve?_
My kids and I loved that series!
Might not if the alcohol stops it freezing? EDIT: The wort might though!
I love the total little kid energy you bring to everything you try in this series - your excitement is infectious
I've got to say that even more than the rest of the series, this one really shows off how good you are at summarising knowledge. The number of times I was "I think I understand what he's saying...." only for you to clarify it perfectly was really noticeable. Great work conveying what's going on to the layman as it were. 😀
As a food scientist, i really appreciate episodes like this where you can see the importance of hygiene and knowing your process and product. I love how you caught on on how well controlled everything is, and that there's a lot of science behind making a consistently good beer. If you do get a chance to see a bottling plant at work, make sure to check it out because it looks really impressive. Yes, this is where the product gets made, but you can't see much happening, during filling and labelling you see a lot of incredibly finely choreographed movement.
"The cleaning is never done!"
80% of brewing beer is washing the dishes.
12:11 I love how Matt thanked everyone he's worked with who are outstanding in their field, whilst he was out, standing in a field 😁
I came here looking for someone else who noticed. No way that was accidental
Matt is a master at threading the needle of being goofy, asking the right questions, and being really appreciative of people doing their thing.
Matt, you've never driven a forklift until you've driven one with 72 inch forks trying to lift standard pallets... and put the blades through the wall on the other side. At an old job, my boss got tired of us forking the walls between us and the neighbors and chewed us out one day. Not five minutes later, he hops on the forklift to pick up a skid in order to place it on a delivery truck... and forked the walls. We all got one free stab at the walls after that.
He's never driven a forklift to begin with 😅
Or when you have to flip pallets of raw cardboard by throwing them
It's clear that there was a lot of forklift explanation that got cut for time; I've given enough forklift training to know. Matt did pretty well, too.
I gotta say some things about Ben. Firstly he;s a pretty good teacher, dude was patient as hell and was able to explain it all very clearly and concisely while allowing you to actively do things as you learn, and he sounds like Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe).
To hear Ben, he starts talking at 0:56 btw!
I had lots of neat little aha! moments in here. “But if they use the same water for sterilizing and brewing won’t that mean the chemicals end up in the beer” … “Ohhhh it’s sterilized via temperature not chemicals!”
I guess they do this because it is more sustainable and you can assure that no residues of chemicals can end up in the beer.
i had this with the spray bottle like "but wont that get into the beer" "oh wait its just alcohol and water"
We need a follow up episode where you taste the beer and Ben tells us more about low alcohol beer and how that is different (significantly so I would imagine) from stronger beer that has been converted to lower (or no) alcohol.
I have a weird taste in beers, I like the really strong Belgian type AND then some low to ultra-low alcohol. Alcohol free is seldom that good, but 0.5 to 2-3 % can be lovely. I fear the hype about alcohol free is killing many nice brews :-(.
One of the clips coming to my Patreon is a beer tasting! Though there's still a few weeks left before this Kölsch is ready.
Is alcohol free this much of an hype in some places? There is like two big bear maker who makes them and all the other just store brand ones.
I have yet to see any small brewer make/sell anything alcohol free.
Those hoses looking new is no accident, they have to be replaced regularly, as they also get sterilised in boiling water, so they do degrade. That is why every part is stainless steel, and you strip it all apart so that all the dead spaces get cleaned as well, so as to not trap anything that might contaminate the beer.
Matt drives a Fork lift was enough fun. Loved this
He hopped on so confidently and to me he looked like he's done it before
@@P3x310 And then 7:00 happens and it's pretty clear he hasn't 😅
So does this mean we will get more Matt Gray Is Trying? I've been absolutely LOVING this series.
Yes, I did just watch a 23 minute video about a foodstuff I can't even drink.
Great video Matt!
As a fellow non-drinker, it still fascinates me how complex the world of alcoholic drinks is.
Good to know I'm not alone 😊
I NEED a 'Full of Anxiety' t-shirt! 😂
This one probably ticked off a couple of series items, I would think that driving a forklift would have been a thing Matt would have done an episode for all on its own.
Nice! Loved you going "Whee!" on the forklift. And Kölsch beer is surprisingly alright 😅
As a German, I can say: there's a lot of choices for beer, and Kölsch has to be my least favorite. But opinions are different, Flens was even worse. :D
Ben is great. Extremely knowledgeable and passionate about his craft. Love to see young people keeping old crafts alive. But I’m a bit disappointed you didn’t try the beer you made. I know that would have meant to wait a few weeks but it would have been a great ending to the video.
It's still got a few weeks left conditioning, I'm going to go back and give it a try!
So glad you've made another one of these! Its one of my favorite series right now! Really hoping it goes big so you can keep making them! You deserve to.
That dude was the perfect sidekick.. so enthusiastic but also explaining everything well, good energy.. amazing :)
One of those sidekicks who's actually the one running the show, naturally. :)
And knowing exactly what he can confidently tell Matt to do without breaking anything
I used to sub contract (IT) to a very large Brewery company in Burton. It was really interesting to see all of the equipment being used by Small Beer is literally smaller versions of the equipment said larger brewer uses in their breweries (with the exception of the kettles, which were beautiful copper kettles).
I am thoroughly looking forward to the future video titled "Matt Gray is Trying a Pint of His Small Beer."
6:19 Gotta keep the Copper Strike proprietary temperatures a secret!
Is it possible that he censored the number that comes before 70?
@@KingKool2099 Nope, see the reading next to it. (Also he mentioned it is a trade secret in one of the comments under the pinned comment)
@@cpasr8065 Aw, that woulda been funny.
Great stuff, this is the best explanation of beer making that I have seen. What makes you so good at this kind of thing Matt, is that you are genuinely interested, you're not afraid to ask the 'stupid' questions, and you will keep asking things until you understand fully.
Oh awesome stuff, it's always fun watching these videos.
ohh, I'd also thought malts were totally different from "other grains", but they're just processed! The part about the hops was also really interesting, they're almost like tea leaves... I thought I don't like beers that are "hoppy" because they're bitter, but maybe now I can look for ones that have more of the hops added to the cooled concoction and see if they suit me better. Floral and citrusy are adjectives right up my alley 😄
Find out the IBU, International Bitterness Units, of the beers. High IBU will have more boiled hops, a low IBU "dry hopped" beer will have less bitterness but more of the hop flavors.
"The lightning rod comes later." 😂😂😂
My brain added "It's alive! It's alive! It's alive! It's alive!" to my internal sound track.
I find it genuinly heartwarming that everyone who participates in these videos is just such a delight to watch.
"are they salt with a capital S or other chemicals?" is such a Matt Gray-y question though! /pos
Love your videos, Matt. Perhaps as many, I've discovered you through Tom Scott (first, by seeing his videos a couple of years back, then viewing some (actually, quite a lot of the) Park Bench episodes, listening in to Tech Difficulties...
Best of luck with what you do and wish to see more. All the best & greetings from LT.
P.S. NordVPN/NordSecurity / Surfshark & others should definitely sponsor your content more frequently. You deserve viewership of millions! :)
The graphics are so helpful here! Such a well made video
The wholesomeness alone of Matt having fun is worth the tip!
Great video Matt! I look forward to catching up on the series. Ps it was great seeing you today at makers Central, thank you so much for giving us the time and being so kind. Cheers J
I don't know what's more fun, the look inside the proverbial kitchen with these videos, or Matt's cheerful vibes while he's there. 😊
Matt Gray driving a forklift and making beer! Did all my dreams just come true?
> It's like when you're at the zoo... And you see the animals taking care of their motions.
> It is animal feed.
> I was meaning it looks like poo.
@ 16:40
Oh god I haven't laughed this much in quite some time!
Your enthusiasm is amazing, gods I love that full smile all the time :) Also, you had a wonderful person to show you around :)
I love this series so much :D
Great video as always. Great to see the enthusiasm and love of the topic from you and the experts in every video
Do not be alarmed, we are in the presence of certified forklift driver Matt Gray
I really can't imagine a video more comprehensively answering every question I had about beer. This entire series has been great, but Matt as interviewer was especially spot on - and credit to Ben for explaining things well. Nailed it.
anyone can make alcohol, but it takes someone skilled to make it taste the same consistently.
Holy hell I've never clicked on one of your videos faster 😂 you should try brewing mead next, it tastes better anyway
The idea that people drank small beer because it was safer than water is PROBABLY a myth. The idea that dirty water is responsible for disease is, after all, very very modern indeed. People certainly did drink a lot of small/table beer, but the reasons were probably not to do with staying healthy. It is more likely that they drank it because it has some small calorific value, and tasted better than the available water sources.
Wanted to comment this. But good to see that someone beat me to it!^^
It is certainly a myth that nobody drank water. Plenty of people had a supply of clean water - a well or a fast running stream - and they would happily drink it.
The idea that diseases could be carried by water wasn't addressed scientifically until John Snow in 1855 when he mapped cholera cases in London and realised they were grouped around certain water sources, but people were certainly aware of the risks of bad water. They may not have realised that water could look clean and taste fine while still being full of bacteria, but they knew drinking obviously discoloured or bad tasting water would make you sick and that making it into tea or beer would prevent that.
The small Beer guy is hypeeeeeer xD zagzagzag! I love him!
We damn well better get at least a short on you tasting the pint of beer you helped make! :)
I absolutely love the show, like others said, there's something inherently magical about seeing a grown man channel his inner child, AND inner nerd. Especially when you clearly share that energy with the craftsmen you visit, though that just might be the simple fact of working with people who Love what they do. :)
lol the short is already up :D
Erm... Sorry... You were betrayed! You were definitely not brewing Kölsch. Kölsch is a regional product and by definition and can only be brewed in the area of Cologne (Köln) with view of the Cologne Cathedral (Dom)
One of the best videos I've seen for a very long time (possibly helped by drinking a beer whilst watching how they make beer!) so thank you Matt!
Matt's super inquisitive nature and Ben's outstanding ability to explain something complicated in simple terms (seriously, I cannot understate how good Ben was in this video!) made this a real treat to watch, thanks again.
As I heard from Scott Manley (space youtuber): "Wine will happen by accident. Beer however needs to be crafted."
I knew how to, (theoretically), make beer, but i heaven't seen it in action yet!
This video learned me a lot about the process.
Thank you Matt, (and your team), for producing, and Ben and 'Small beer' for sharing your knowledge!
It’s a testament to both Ben’s explanation and your questions and video production that makes me feel like it could brew beer now. Very nice video :)
Fantastic seeing people who are absolute experts in their craft.
My partner and I absolutely love "matt grey is trying"!!! such a good style of video ! !
Being a brewer looks like a fun job. Apart from all the physical labour and valve turning involved in the big industrial process, there are a lot of things in there that I as a chemistry student am very familiar with.
I absolutely love this series! I feel like Matt is the right person to present this type of content
Matt Gray is Trying: Becoming Forklift Certified ✨
Ha! They really make small beer!
I actually did start drinking mostly low alcohol beer, as a colleague and I found ourselves being close to being drunks (alcoholics have more money and maybe style). So we investigated alternatives. We still enjoy a drink or five on occasion.
@2:35 A stout with 2.5% ABV somehow seems sacrilegious to me...great video though!
Perfect telly for me. I'll pay on the patreon as soon as I can. Thankyou Matt.
Also, similar vibes from the helicopter lesson to the forklift driving; have you played a lot of forklift sims too? 😊
I need that cat t-shirt! From the patreon plug. I love this series too, I don't even like beer . . . (p.s. the plug worked)
21:39 Holy crap I have never seen a White Labs yeast pouch so big! They make some fantastic yeast strains. Their tasting rooms in Asheville and San Diego are great, they will do the same beer with 3 different yeasts to show off the flavor differences.
Also they have some of the best pizza I have ever had. :)
No mention of the connection between a tun and a ton? Missed opportunity.
The mash tun is named for the tun, a large barrel, that also was a unit of measure, usually about 250 gallons, so it would weigh a bit over 2000 lbs.
Where did you get the t-shirt from? I want one lol
Thanks for all you do.
Ben is very clear with the explanations! Fascinating stuff
I am now only going to refer to sodium chloride as "Salt with a capitol S" xD
This was lovely to see, thanks :) Hope to see a follow-up sample session!
FYI: the subtitles talk of 'molting' rather than 'malting', which (I thought) are two different things. ;)
The mutual enthusiasm in this is lovely, really enjoyed!
me watching this while drinking a store brand beer: hmm yes, the malt is very important
Incredible how some parts of the process are so similar to coffee brewing!
I've been on like 5 brewery tours but this was still a very interesting video.
this should be a publically funded show helping kids pick a career (theres something similar in switzerland, but not with an unexperienced person trying to do the job)
But, is it a brewer of small beer or a small brewer of beer?
Both
yes
This is such an amazing series. I never knew just how much effort goes into this shit!
It is a crime that these videos are not getting millions of view...
Matt, You didn't get in the way any more than any other person on their fist day.
oooh, I think this might be the first video you've done that is a topic I actually know about!
Brewing beer is fun. Designing beers is also fun. Many years ago I designed a Hefeweizen called Badger. We used locally sourced honey in the boil and ferment to give it a little extra. Was super proud of that brew. Got a lot of comments from neighbors and friends who tried it. Biggest batch I ever made was 5 gallons. For a time my room mate and I were looking into opening a microbrewery, but unfortunately that didn't ever go anywhere :(
Oh this is awesome! I love love love hearing about the behind the scenes and this seems like exactly something you'd do!
What do you mean you mostly got in the way? You were helping and asking good questions!
Thanks Matt. I probably owe you more for all of the entertainment you have provided over the years but it's a start.
As someone who also enjoys beer, this is delightful! It's so fun to see your excitement and interest!
I love this guys explanation of what beer is and how it’s made. He made it super accurate and simple. A kolsch is basically a German style that’s like a lager as an ale. 😮
Indeed, you've got to illustrate the _pint_ before you start
What a phenomenal guest he was! I don’t even like alcohol and I was glued to my screen and taking notes!
ben has jokes! this was great
Isn't the "people drank beer instead of water for hygiene reasons" a myth? People had wells to get clean water.
Like, the whole cleaning process before starting to get good beer is evidence against that, no?
Yeah, pretty much. People did drink plenty of beer tho, because it had more nutrients than water. And when you're a medieval person with lots of work to do, why grab a drink of water and then have to eat something, when you can have a beer, which does both? Keep in mind, medieval beer had less alcohol and more nutrients in it, it pretty much was liquid bread.
Big fan of these videos
This looks a lot like how my brothers' brewery works!
Even down to the slogan "brewing is mostly cleaning" 😂
i love Ben! he's so hyper!