This was super fun and tasted even better a few days later! It's really inspired me to make my own homemade cider without a machine now, so look out for that soon! If you liked this, you'll probably like the individual kitchen gadget testing playlist here with loads more kitchen gadget reviews th-cam.com/video/olFYfhtScR4/w-d-xo.html
So you spent £250 on a cider making machine, £35 on a heat mat and £20 on international shipping for Dutch yeast and...you've been inspired to make cider without the machine!? 🤔 😂 Stick with the old White Lightning Barry; a damn site cheaper, no need for an IT degree or stable WiFi and it doesn't take a week to make! 😂
So really Barry 5 days later and over £300 spent all to make about a pint maybe a pint and 1/2 of cider when it’s quite cheap to buy at the supermarket anyway... Was it really worth the time and money? Seeing you have given it away..
Except for parents in Australia, I think all the Sates and Territories are back to school here as we have very low amount of cases and none in my state.
I have been teaching virtually this past school year and every year the kids/parents get an end-of-school-year gift for their teachers. It warms my heart when my students surprise me with a card, a drawing, a candle or a yummy treat at the end of the school year but this year, teaching virtually during a pandemic...the most popular end-of-school-year teacher gifts I have seen being given to teachers from parents/guardians was LCBO gift cards or bottles of wine! LOL
Am really shocked the machine doesn't heat the brew I would of thought that would be part of it, I can't understand why you froze the fruit either, saying that I mostly make base spirit
@@Helveteshit I like the UV cleaning if I could get a 5 gallon one I would love it, but the app is pretty redundant to be fair I got an Alexa thermo sensor for a tenner and when it goes to cold my Alexa turns on a heating band via a smart plug and then turns it off again if it gets too warm, I can check on that via my Alexa app
Not sure if it's even possible but i want a see a will it Cider with Ashens at some point. I miss Barry and Ashens together in videos damn you Covid causing Restrictions.
@@mrbarrylewis convince him to go down to Weston! Ashens is the reason why I discovered your channel, and I cant wait to see another collaboration between you two!
I can't help thinking of the Juicero fiasco when I see products like this. But at least this one lets you supply your own ingredients instead of having to order them online.
Chloe calling you all out for your vices was my favorite part of the video 😂 reminds me of how I used to call my mum out if she had the slightest bit of alcohol in her cupboard (now I’m that person who doesn’t get drunk, but still has a full cabinet of spirits because I like making drinks. How the turns have tabled I guess, haha)
@@TheHutchy01 yup! And straight honey takes even less time. Mead is easy as hell, difficulty is the recipe and getting the right amount of honey to yeast ratio so it tastes right
@@mrbarrylewis If you really want to get into home brewing one of the best places to start is with the beer kits that come in two cans. You'll put about £100 into equipment but it's well worth it and will teach you everything you need to know about the basics of brewing.
I remember my mother loved cider when I was growing up. She had a very specific brand she was always on about. Always saying how much she craved Dickens cider.
Omg, I thought you were maybe serious especially since the brand exists but still thought it was an odd name. Took me a second to realize what it says all spelled out lol
Buying a make it yourself Cidermachine: 250 pounds Giving your wonderful wife homemade cider while your daughter steals the show with cold logic: Priceless.. :D
As a homebrewer watching this, I've experienced a roller coaster of emotions. It's been charming watching your first journey into homebrew. Keep experimenting and learning!
Yeah, my main emotion was total disbelief that a seemingly intelligent man thought it necessary to pay big bucks for something you can do with a bucket.
@@heatherrowles2580 lol, yeah! Although having a gadget can add a certain amount of fun, I'm not sure I'd have it in me to shell out £250 to add a bit of monitoring. I twinged more at the idea of ordering yeast from so far away. I'm used to just popping down to my local homebrew supply shop.
Hey barry, food technician here, the °Bx means "Degrees Brix" that represents, in this case how much sugar is in the volume of liquid you have. 21 Bx could mean 21g of sugar in 100 g of liquid
Other way to do this: Buy a fermentation bottle set for between 10-50 bucks, depending on size, and just do it the old-fashioned way. Or punch a hole in the lid of a well-cleaned pickle jar and tie a clean towel over the top for 0 bucks. It's not hard, I promise.
It's just software, so long as you have the same hardware you used to operate it in the first place and the application installed, it will work just fine. IF for instance you constantly upgrade your hardware and say the application (software) is no longer available for download then I'd say I agree because it may not be compatible with new OS and said devices it runs on nor may there be support in terms of firmware updates.
@@outogetyougotyou5250 It is not always "just software". For example the juice machine required the barcode on the package be scanned. No server, no work.
I would say I was never going to drink when I was little, and I meant it, I'm 28 now and have still never drunk, so you never know, she might be serious XD
I made cider during the 1st lockdown in 2L lemonade bottles with a 'bubble' air lock. (Had my hours cut in half - so plenty time on my hands) 1/2g of yeast for 2L, not the whole sachet!! One sachet of yeast would do 28 brews! Always great results with just the cheap apple juice cartons from the supermarket. Bottled with 1 teaspoon of sugar for carbonation.
I've brewed and distilled my own spirits, just started brewing beer from kits; currently got 38 pints on the go. You can get cider kits as well and it's very easy and cheap - works out about 50p a pint - once you've got your kit. Good hobby to have, like playing with a big kids chemistry set - especially since the pub restrictions brought on by lockdown.
Please make more episodes with this machine there's no other videos on TH-cam with this machine !! And I loved the episode you should make a series of this
Please make this a series! I’d love to see all sorts of home brewing inc. beer, gin and vodka. I’ve always wanted to try but never known where to start. Could you do some cheaper recipes as well? As I’m a uni student 😅
Having watched my father make wine buy the machine - completely worth it. Also for humor teach your daughter some of the prohibition songs like lips that touch whiskey will never touch mine
Don’t give it away! It would be interesting to see you use it trying other recipes. Seems like a waste of money and videos ideas if you give it away so soon, at least use it for a few months to create content on this channel.
AFAIK, it's still the same strain of yeast, but the difference in flavor comes from other factors(like water and the microflora that individual bakers have on their skin) can affect the flavor. That's why people have trouble replicating sourdough taste even if they get some of the original starter. There has actually been a study of just that, look it up.
@@laerin7931The wild yeast that's floating around in my from yard is of different types and concentrations than your front yard. Everywhere is pretty unique. That's why the machine directions specified champagne yeast, which is designed to have a muted flavor. If Barry had used regular bread yeast the drink wouldn't have been near as tasty. If you go to a homebrew store, you'll see a large number of different kinds of yeast there which relate to the flavor they impart (or don't). Most all yeast tolerates 6-9% alcohol. Only major exception is a kind that can tolerate 20%, designed so for ethanol factories to make the non-drinking kind but that yeast tastes nasty.
Removing sugar before the fermentation process won't reduce the sweetness, it will reduce the strength of the alcohol. I made a pear and strawberry ocoder for Xmas and its awesome, although it is a bit of a dry cider I'll add a sweetener at the end next time to give it a sweeter flavour .
Surely that depends on how much you let it go? If you let it go until all yhe sugar is consumed by the yeast sure then reducing sugar does reduce alcohol and only alcohol. But if you don't then it doesn't
I'm brewing mead at the moment and I'm doing it in the simplest way possible. Bought one of those 4L bottles of water (because its all packed sterilised) got a couple of bottles of honey, some raisins and a cup of tea. Pour enough water out to put the honey, tea and raisins in, cap it off with a balloon with a few holes in it, wait. Job done. Oh obviously include yeast. pretty much any wine yeast will do, not £20 ones!
Had a demijohn for a couple of years and kept telling myself I'd make some mead (I live in an ex-viking village in Yorkshire, always wanted to make it) and this video finally convinced me to get the final bits to make my own mead, thank you Barry
As a beer brewer I can certify that yeast has A LOT of influence on the final result. So you absolutely have to use a certain strain of yeast for a certain flavour you want to achieve. Fermentation temperature is really import as well and the same yeast can produce completely different flavors depending on the fermentation temperature.
The old school method works well, it’s just more guess work figuring when it’s done. The whole monitoring sugar and alcohol levels was cool, it really needs a cider press or juicer tho.
For £250, I would have expected it to have a temperature-controlled environment, it's just a glorified scale otherwise, as I suspect the weight of the liquid (alcohol is less dense than water) is how it's estimating how done the brew is.
I made a few homebrews when I was younger (just the packs you used to get a Wilkinson). Once you've paid for the equipment it works out really cheap and if you follow the steps fully it tastes amazing.
i feel like thats the problem with most gadgets, theyre too much effort to take out, use and clean, while a knife is small, easy to clean and used for everything
Can't blame him, tbh. I'm not a fan of most of those gadgets (except for the jar key, that thing is a godsend). Hate gadgets that just make everything more complex.
@@PirikkoP I hear ya, but he did get awfully excited when testing out that strawberry gadget... I find it even more amusing that he barely even uses the gadgets in his own Kitchen Prep Kit, like the garlic peeler or press...
Ugh everything needs updating and an account and updating.... when are these companies gonna realise that having to do all that shizz for 12 hours before you can use the item is a massive turn off?
Barry, I've been brewing my own cider for years, and all you have to do is get some gallon jugs of apple juice (make sure it's preservative free, and the juice is already in a sterile environment) and some sachets of Fleischmann's active dry yeast. Open the gallon jug, pour about 1/4 of a sachet of yeast in (per gallon), put the screw-on cap just tight enough to keep the bugs from getting in and to let the air out (yeast eats sugar, pisses out alcohol, and farts CO2), leave it alone (don't shake it or anything) at room temperature (out of the way, and in a dark room or space), and in about 7-14 days (depending on the ambient temperature in your home) it will clear up and the yeast will settle to the bottom, and you'll have cider. Different yeasts have different tolerances for alcohol density, but bread yeast will bring it up to about 8% easily. There are literally hundreds of videos on here about home brewing. Have fun, and experiment with different juices - and don't forget to post the results here for us all to see!
My parents did this with canned fruit 50 years ago in a gallon pickle jar on the kitchen counter with sugar and natural yeast from the environment. Took a few weeks though and like sourdough it had to be fed to keep the yeast alive. Just sugar and fruit.
Chloe was the best part of that! Sorry, the fancy exy gadget was AMAZING and I’m quite jelly but that little “oh no!” As Rebecca went in for the second taste, priceless!
that must have tasted so yeasty, normally when its done fermenting you'll need to leave it still in the bucket for weeks afterwards to properly let the yeast fall down to the bottom leaving a clear drink
Machines before the internet: Insert apple Shreds apple Drips out applejuice Machines today Connect to wifi Connect to our community Dance naked in the moonlight around a blue flame campfire Update firmware Insert apple No, just organic apples Sacrefice you first vorn born child Finaly you get the juice...
Or, like Juicero: Connect to wi-fi Create an account Place a bag of juice that you can juice by hand so that the machine can press it You get your juice from a machine that costs 700$.
That reminded me of my childhood 🤣. My dad used to make Rose hip wine and we had a couple of those large glass fermenters standing on a little cupboard in the kitchen.
When I was little, I used to tell my parents that I was never going to drink. I am now 28, and guess what... I STILL DON'T DRINK! So you never know Barry, Chloe might actually be serious!
americans call cider 'hard cider' meaning it has alcohol in it, the cider they drink a lot of is 0 alcohol cider we call apple juice... just some unusual facts for you lol
@@lemonadewithstrawberries been looking into it, depends on which part of the country you are, those i have spoken too either call it cider or apple juice or un-fermented apple juice...
@@cheekymonkey666 Huh. Unfermented apple juice seems like overkill. I have heard spiced apple juice called cider, but that's normally heated as well and then it's called "hot cider."
@@cheekymonkey666 Cider, Apple juice, and Hard cider are all completely different things here. I've never heard of anyone actually confusing them or using another name for them.
When it comes to the yeast you can use any yeast even bread yeast but it does impart some unique characteristics. The reason for special yeast is that wine yeast, and yeast for brewing, survives at much higher alcohol levels and tastes better, as soon as it dies the fermentation will stop and bread yeast will die at just 6%. Any wine yeast especially those for sparkling wine will work for cider.
Mead, Cider, Cyser, and Wine are all fairly easy to make, but hard to master. Btw try making Cyser it is a mead, but instead of making it with water you make it with apple juice. The rest is the same. You can also do second fermentation with other fruits. I've made it with black cherry and peach as well as blueberry peach. They went off really well.
I'm not sure about in Britain, but in Canada we have "homebrew" or "youbrew" wine and beer places, and they sell sachets of various brewers yeasts. They're a fairly common shop where I live and the yeast is only a few dollars
You can use whatever brand yeast you want, but you do need to get the right kind. They are different strains of yeast usually so it very much does change things. I'd suggest going to a home-brew store and ask their reccomendation/use the brand they stock. It'll be way cheaper and usually pretty decent
This was super fun and tasted even better a few days later! It's really inspired me to make my own homemade cider without a machine now, so look out for that soon! If you liked this, you'll probably like the individual kitchen gadget testing playlist here with loads more kitchen gadget reviews th-cam.com/video/olFYfhtScR4/w-d-xo.html
wait 50yrs and send a bottle of your cider to Stuart Ashens to try.
Should of gone to Wilkos for the yeast, it's 1.50 for a tub of it
So you spent £250 on a cider making machine, £35 on a heat mat and £20 on international shipping for Dutch yeast and...you've been inspired to make cider without the machine!? 🤔 😂 Stick with the old White Lightning Barry; a damn site cheaper, no need for an IT degree or stable WiFi and it doesn't take a week to make! 😂
So really Barry 5 days later and over £300 spent all to make about a pint maybe a pint and 1/2 of cider when it’s quite cheap to buy at the supermarket anyway...
Was it really worth the time and money? Seeing you have given it away..
Looks like chedder Valley cider
"You two aren't a good example, drinking alcohol in front of your 9 year old daughter" She always has me rolling! 🤣🤣🤣
"You're still drinking it! You're going to be drunk then!" "It's okay! homeschooling is going to be fun today!"
@@majorkurn I almost spit my food out when he said that! 🤣🤣
😂😂😂
Turn her around so it won't be in front of her. Boom! solved xD
She sure has serious opinions about drinking alcohol. Not the first time she said anything about it.
"Home schooling is gonna be fun today" Every parent in 2021
I've been homeschooling for 4 years now. So happy I've chosen to do so. When covid hit our lives didn't change much;-)
And it's over thank goodness 😊
Except for parents in Australia, I think all the Sates and Territories are back to school here as we have very low amount of cases and none in my state.
I have been teaching virtually this past school year and every year the kids/parents get an end-of-school-year gift for their teachers. It warms my heart when my students surprise me with a card, a drawing, a candle or a yummy treat at the end of the school year but this year, teaching virtually during a pandemic...the most popular end-of-school-year teacher gifts I have seen being given to teachers from parents/guardians was LCBO gift cards or bottles of wine! LOL
22:25 The "Oh no" in the background as the parents descend into alcoholism :P
Costs 250.. Doesn't even have a heating element to keep it at the optimal temperature.
Good point!
The whole thing is giving me really strong Juicero vibes, and Barry hasn't even started to put stuff into it.
Am really shocked the machine doesn't heat the brew I would of thought that would be part of it, I can't understand why you froze the fruit either, saying that I mostly make base spirit
@@legitgibbo3225 The 250 bucks are mostly the program coding, app work and such. A shame the UV will stop work after a year or two.
@@Helveteshit I like the UV cleaning if I could get a 5 gallon one I would love it, but the app is pretty redundant to be fair I got an Alexa thermo sensor for a tenner and when it goes to cold my Alexa turns on a heating band via a smart plug and then turns it off again if it gets too warm, I can check on that via my Alexa app
Not sure if it's even possible but i want a see a will it Cider with Ashens at some point. I miss Barry and Ashens together in videos damn you Covid causing Restrictions.
Damn you covid.... it's a long drive to Norwich though!
@@mrbarrylewis long drives are all relative... :) me driving to dads old condo only 990 miles one way.. now its more then twice as much. ugg
@@mrbarrylewis try brewing without the machine so you can do will it cider with ashens with multiple buckets
@@mrbarrylewis convince him to go down to Weston! Ashens is the reason why I discovered your channel, and I cant wait to see another collaboration between you two!
Yes!!!!! Awesome idea!!!
"Comes with a hat" 10/10 my actual humour
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Such an expensive gadget and it doesn't even contain a heating element. Fail.
Exactly what I thought, it's just a load of sensors
I can't help thinking of the Juicero fiasco when I see products like this. But at least this one lets you supply your own ingredients instead of having to order them online.
Gotta leave something to improve in the next iteration
Im pretty sure it has one just a very weak one in order to not screw it up when left unsupervised
I was wondering about that as well o. 0
People: "AI is going to take over the world in the future!"
The AI: "You have to update the firmware."
Its when the AI can update its own firmware and software that we have to worry.
Chloe calling you all out for your vices was my favorite part of the video 😂 reminds me of how I used to call my mum out if she had the slightest bit of alcohol in her cupboard (now I’m that person who doesn’t get drunk, but still has a full cabinet of spirits because I like making drinks. How the turns have tabled I guess, haha)
mead is so easy to make without machines, really REALLY easy.
I think making some melomel took me about 15 minutes, and most of that was chopping the oranges to fit in the demijohn.
@@TheHutchy01 yup! And straight honey takes even less time. Mead is easy as hell, difficulty is the recipe and getting the right amount of honey to yeast ratio so it tastes right
Excited to try it
@@mrbarrylewis excited to watch it! Demijohn and £1 yeast along with a non return valve for the air to release, MUCH cheaper than the way you went ha.
@@mrbarrylewis I live in cardiff and make mead, I'd love to drop you off a bottle to try! :)
Your daughter is so sweet ..you can tell she has been raised well. I love her concern over Mummy getting drunk lol
Regardless of how good or bad it is, the second you said 'app controlled' I was totally out. The second the companies servers go down it's a brick.
That's a good point! It is still brewing now lol, haven't deleted the app!
Also, if you're own internet goes down...
@@sayididit2930 Apparently so. I'll stick to my buckets and barrels.
@@mrbarrylewis If you really want to get into home brewing one of the best places to start is with the beer kits that come in two cans. You'll put about £100 into equipment but it's well worth it and will teach you everything you need to know about the basics of brewing.
@@Thematt11 Now you got my interest.
I remember my mother loved cider when I was growing up. She had a very specific brand she was always on about. Always saying how much she craved Dickens cider.
Omg, I thought you were maybe serious especially since the brand exists but still thought it was an odd name. Took me a second to realize what it says all spelled out lol
Surely being a Bristolian, Barry has the legally required slightly grubby plastic jugs full of Scrumpy already.
lol!
Buying a make it yourself Cidermachine: 250 pounds
Giving your wonderful wife homemade cider while your daughter steals the show with cold logic: Priceless..
:D
Making more money from this video than the cost of the machine: Smart business
As a homebrewer watching this, I've experienced a roller coaster of emotions. It's been charming watching your first journey into homebrew. Keep experimenting and learning!
Yeah, my main emotion was total disbelief that a seemingly intelligent man thought it necessary to pay big bucks for something you can do with a bucket.
@@heatherrowles2580 lol, yeah! Although having a gadget can add a certain amount of fun, I'm not sure I'd have it in me to shell out £250 to add a bit of monitoring. I twinged more at the idea of ordering yeast from so far away. I'm used to just popping down to my local homebrew supply shop.
Been home brewing mead for about 15 years, definitely willing to share some tips and tricks if needed 😀
Hey barry, food technician here, the °Bx means "Degrees Brix" that represents, in this case how much sugar is in the volume of liquid you have. 21 Bx could mean 21g of sugar in 100 g of liquid
Would love to see you brew mead! Sounds like the start of a ‘Barry Brews’ series to me...
Also cheers Bristol City - from a Norwich fan!!
Other way to do this: Buy a fermentation bottle set for between 10-50 bucks, depending on size, and just do it the old-fashioned way. Or punch a hole in the lid of a well-cleaned pickle jar and tie a clean towel over the top for 0 bucks.
It's not hard, I promise.
"home schooling's going to be fun today", love it and love when your wife is in the video.
for 250 quid i would have thought it would have had its own built in heating system like a bread maker
Yes! That was a bit disappointing to say the least
Barry strategically gives the device away to himself
The fact it needs an app to do anything killed it for me. What happens when they go bust and stop supporting it? Ahem...Juicero....cough
Juicero was like the worst thing ever. I mean why pay so much money to get prejuiced juice out of a packet :-)
@@MegaWesje Love how someone showed you could get MORE juice just by manually squeezing the bag!
It's just software, so long as you have the same hardware you used to operate it in the first place and the application installed, it will work just fine. IF for instance you constantly upgrade your hardware and say the application (software) is no longer available for download then I'd say I agree because it may not be compatible with new OS and said devices it runs on nor may there be support in terms of firmware updates.
@@outogetyougotyou5250 It is not always "just software". For example the juice machine required the barcode on the package be scanned. No server, no work.
when a barry lewis video starts with "day 1", you know you're in for a treat
Barry your wife must be hungover when entering the home schooling class 😂 *Teacher be like* heloow kilds todey weeeeeee arer learninggg schoolllll
My favorite video so far! Absolutely BRILLIANT! So much fun! Do it again !
Homeschooling is going to be fun today 😂 earmark this video for when she’s 16 and see if she will say the same about not drinking 🍷
I would say I was never going to drink when I was little, and I meant it, I'm 28 now and have still never drunk, so you never know, she might be serious XD
I made cider during the 1st lockdown in 2L lemonade bottles with a 'bubble' air lock. (Had my hours cut in half - so plenty time on my hands) 1/2g of yeast for 2L, not the whole sachet!! One sachet of yeast would do 28 brews! Always great results with just the cheap apple juice cartons from the supermarket. Bottled with 1 teaspoon of sugar for carbonation.
100% do more of these plz love it
I just don’t know why anyone would dislike any of your videos. You’re fabulous! Very cool gadget! Would love to see you and Mrs. B make wine!
Did you finish all the house construction? What's left to do? Will we ever get a full tour?
I've brewed and distilled my own spirits, just started brewing beer from kits; currently got 38 pints on the go. You can get cider kits as well and it's very easy and cheap - works out about 50p a pint - once you've got your kit. Good hobby to have, like playing with a big kids chemistry set - especially since the pub restrictions brought on by lockdown.
This was great, would love to see you try some more out.
Maybe a Will It Cider with Ashens?
Please make more episodes with this machine there's no other videos on TH-cam with this machine !! And I loved the episode you should make a series of this
Please make this a series! I’d love to see all sorts of home brewing inc. beer, gin and vodka. I’ve always wanted to try but never known where to start. Could you do some cheaper recipes as well? As I’m a uni student 😅
Having watched my father make wine buy the machine - completely worth it. Also for humor teach your daughter some of the prohibition songs like lips that touch whiskey will never touch mine
Don’t give it away! It would be interesting to see you use it trying other recipes. Seems like a waste of money and videos ideas if you give it away so soon, at least use it for a few months to create content on this channel.
I want to see Barry try to make all different kinds of booze for the first time. Will it booze.
@@15holdcroft with things ppl never tried before, this would get many to watch
definately! i've wanted to make mead too lol. good luck patrons!
To be fair different strains of yeast do have certain tastes. That’s why San Francisco sour dough tastes the way it does.
also not really the sellers fault that brexit occured, making shipping much more expensive...
Often the biggest difference with brewing yeast is alcohol tolerance.
@@Sithdude78 It's taste. Huge difference between the flavors of different strains of yeast.
AFAIK, it's still the same strain of yeast, but the difference in flavor comes from other factors(like water and the microflora that individual bakers have on their skin) can affect the flavor. That's why people have trouble replicating sourdough taste even if they get some of the original starter. There has actually been a study of just that, look it up.
@@laerin7931The wild yeast that's floating around in my from yard is of different types and concentrations than your front yard. Everywhere is pretty unique. That's why the machine directions specified champagne yeast, which is designed to have a muted flavor. If Barry had used regular bread yeast the drink wouldn't have been near as tasty. If you go to a homebrew store, you'll see a large number of different kinds of yeast there which relate to the flavor they impart (or don't). Most all yeast tolerates 6-9% alcohol. Only major exception is a kind that can tolerate 20%, designed so for ethanol factories to make the non-drinking kind but that yeast tastes nasty.
Would be amazing watching you making different drinks and trying them, can't wait to hopefully see more!
Removing sugar before the fermentation process won't reduce the sweetness, it will reduce the strength of the alcohol. I made a pear and strawberry ocoder for Xmas and its awesome, although it is a bit of a dry cider I'll add a sweetener at the end next time to give it a sweeter flavour .
Surely that depends on how much you let it go? If you let it go until all yhe sugar is consumed by the yeast sure then reducing sugar does reduce alcohol and only alcohol. But if you don't then it doesn't
I'm 1min in, and I'm already convinced this will be the first product you've reviewed that I will purchase!
Mrs. Barry's about to have a real chill day homeschooling lol
Absolutely love your videos they really are amazing. You have the most lovely family and certainly cheer me up. Keep it up Barry and mrs Barry x
I'm brewing mead at the moment and I'm doing it in the simplest way possible. Bought one of those 4L bottles of water (because its all packed sterilised) got a couple of bottles of honey, some raisins and a cup of tea. Pour enough water out to put the honey, tea and raisins in, cap it off with a balloon with a few holes in it, wait. Job done. Oh obviously include yeast. pretty much any wine yeast will do, not £20 ones!
Sounds great, gonna try it!
Oh, the cup of tea is for _you._
Had a demijohn for a couple of years and kept telling myself I'd make some mead (I live in an ex-viking village in Yorkshire, always wanted to make it) and this video finally convinced me to get the final bits to make my own mead, thank you Barry
Next with ashen “will it cider”
As a beer brewer I can certify that yeast has A LOT of influence on the final result. So you absolutely have to use a certain strain of yeast for a certain flavour you want to achieve. Fermentation temperature is really import as well and the same yeast can produce completely different flavors depending on the fermentation temperature.
But you definitely don’t need to import yeast for cider from the Netherlands when you live in the West Country!
Ok, thats cool...
Now, I really *Really* want to see you do it the "old school" way like you mentioned.
See if the results compare.
The old school method works well, it’s just more guess work figuring when it’s done. The whole monitoring sugar and alcohol levels was cool, it really needs a cider press or juicer tho.
Please do another one soon. Apple cider. The one with the balloon. Your kids are fantastic. This was a fun video. Thank you, Barry 😷😎
For £250, I would have expected it to have a temperature-controlled environment, it's just a glorified scale otherwise, as I suspect the weight of the liquid (alcohol is less dense than water) is how it's estimating how done the brew is.
wait, holdup, it doesnt control the temperature?! Thats insane, for the cost!!
one of my kids said the same about never going to drink .... yep it changed... lol.... glad to see you have your kids right on track...
Gotta love Becky & Chloe being iconic as per usual 😂
Your videos are the highlight of my days in lockdown Barry!
@Barry, you can plant that pineapple top. It is said they will grow. Might be fun for the girls.
Great idea!
I made a few homebrews when I was younger (just the packs you used to get a Wilkinson). Once you've paid for the equipment it works out really cheap and if you follow the steps fully it tastes amazing.
You just spent £250 on something you can do with a couple of lidded buckets?
Great as always it should be sponsored as you did a great job at showing of the machine!!
New video with Ashens “Will it Cider?” But take about a month. Just doing all recipes
Barry you sound like every new homebrewer ever. Stressing about every little thing. Nice.
I see that you don't actually use the gadgets you test in everyday cooking (strawberry thingy and pineapple cutter...)
i feel like thats the problem with most gadgets, theyre too much effort to take out, use and clean, while a knife is small, easy to clean and used for everything
Can't blame him, tbh. I'm not a fan of most of those gadgets (except for the jar key, that thing is a godsend).
Hate gadgets that just make everything more complex.
@@PirikkoP I hear ya, but he did get awfully excited when testing out that strawberry gadget... I find it even more amusing that he barely even uses the gadgets in his own Kitchen Prep Kit, like the garlic peeler or press...
BX will stand for "Brix" which is the sugar content, we used to measure it all the time using little refractors when I worked in the food industry.
I foresee a new video with Stuart Ashen..."Will it Cider?"
Barry Lewis needs his own show on BBC2. R.I.P AUNTY SPILL😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂✌️
Ugh everything needs updating and an account and updating.... when are these companies gonna realise that having to do all that shizz for 12 hours before you can use the item is a massive turn off?
They won't, cause it's not a turn-off for the 'people' they're "scamming." It's entirely intentional.
People need to feel like the £250 price is justified. I'm surprised they don't make it play music and put on a laser light show while it's running.
a Barry Brews series would be nice and maybe a comparison of the end product comparing the fancy machine cider and the old school bucket cider.
Any other Homebrewers watching this shaking their head...
Yes, very expensive jug and airlock.
beer and wine is easy to get into and it is very enjoyable as hobby. i highly suggest you do videos of it. i would definitely watch it!
WTF?? just buy some demijohns or even use old plastic bottles and you can make cider for under a tenner!
Was thinking that too. I can make one hell of a lot of cider for £250.
Barry, I've been brewing my own cider for years, and all you have to do is get some gallon jugs of apple juice (make sure it's preservative free, and the juice is already in a sterile environment) and some sachets of Fleischmann's active dry yeast. Open the gallon jug, pour about 1/4 of a sachet of yeast in (per gallon), put the screw-on cap just tight enough to keep the bugs from getting in and to let the air out (yeast eats sugar, pisses out alcohol, and farts CO2), leave it alone (don't shake it or anything) at room temperature (out of the way, and in a dark room or space), and in about 7-14 days (depending on the ambient temperature in your home) it will clear up and the yeast will settle to the bottom, and you'll have cider. Different yeasts have different tolerances for alcohol density, but bread yeast will bring it up to about 8% easily. There are literally hundreds of videos on here about home brewing. Have fun, and experiment with different juices - and don't forget to post the results here for us all to see!
Barry: Grabs the greenest pineapple possible
Also Barry: I don’t think this is ripe.
Maybe you should’ve gotten canned pineapple
My parents did this with canned fruit 50 years ago in a gallon pickle jar on the kitchen counter with sugar and natural yeast from the environment. Took a few weeks though and like sourdough it had to be fed to keep the yeast alive. Just sugar and fruit.
Chloe was the best part of that! Sorry, the fancy exy gadget was AMAZING and I’m quite jelly but that little “oh no!” As Rebecca went in for the second taste, priceless!
that must have tasted so yeasty, normally when its done fermenting you'll need to leave it still in the bucket for weeks afterwards to properly let the yeast fall down to the bottom leaving a clear drink
Or just cool it to near freezing for 24 hours to drop it out
This was a great video. Love things like this.
Great job Barry!!!
Machines before the internet:
Insert apple
Shreds apple
Drips out applejuice
Machines today
Connect to wifi
Connect to our community
Dance naked in the moonlight around a blue flame campfire
Update firmware
Insert apple
No, just organic apples
Sacrefice you first vorn born child
Finaly you get the juice...
This gave me a good laugh. Thank you.
Or, like Juicero:
Connect to wi-fi
Create an account
Place a bag of juice that you can juice by hand so that the machine can press it
You get your juice from a machine that costs 700$.
That reminded me of my childhood 🤣. My dad used to make Rose hip wine and we had a couple of those large glass fermenters standing on a little cupboard in the kitchen.
When I was little, I used to tell my parents that I was never going to drink. I am now 28, and guess what... I STILL DON'T DRINK! So you never know Barry, Chloe might actually be serious!
Me too!
Best video I've seen in a while!
8:46 🤣😂
Brilliant Barry and good and helpful and love to you and the whole family
and the jug is plastic, for that price id expect it to be glass
I really would love to try that recipe! Strawberry and pineapple? Sounds delicious!
Barry you should do reacting to old videos again for when you hit 1 mil subs
So cool dude 😎 yes explore more on the creation of bottled fun lol. You rock Barry
For my £250, I'll just buy 529 cans of Lidl cider and be done with it.
You need to do more of these! It was so much fun!
americans call cider 'hard cider' meaning it has alcohol in it, the cider they drink a lot of is 0 alcohol cider we call apple juice... just some unusual facts for you lol
American here. I've personally never heard anyone call apple juice "cider."
@@lemonadewithstrawberries been looking into it, depends on which part of the country you are, those i have spoken too either call it cider or apple juice or un-fermented apple juice...
@@cheekymonkey666 Huh. Unfermented apple juice seems like overkill. I have heard spiced apple juice called cider, but that's normally heated as well and then it's called "hot cider."
@@cheekymonkey666 Cider, Apple juice, and Hard cider are all completely different things here. I've never heard of anyone actually confusing them or using another name for them.
Yet again- another great video by Barry😁😁
I've got some bad news about Max Fill. He passed away last month. Now he's up in heaven with Auntie Spill.
When it comes to the yeast you can use any yeast even bread yeast but it does impart some unique characteristics. The reason for special yeast is that wine yeast, and yeast for brewing, survives at much higher alcohol levels and tastes better, as soon as it dies the fermentation will stop and bread yeast will die at just 6%. Any wine yeast especially those for sparkling wine will work for cider.
"Done a lot worse". Literally the most funny thing you have ever said Barry, and also entirely relatable 🤣
Yes my dood, a barry brews series would be awesome!!
Mead, Cider, Cyser, and Wine are all fairly easy to make, but hard to master. Btw try making Cyser it is a mead, but instead of making it with water you make it with apple juice. The rest is the same. You can also do second fermentation with other fruits. I've made it with black cherry and peach as well as blueberry peach. They went off really well.
I'm not sure about in Britain, but in Canada we have "homebrew" or "youbrew" wine and beer places, and they sell sachets of various brewers yeasts. They're a fairly common shop where I live and the yeast is only a few dollars
I loved this! Chloe saying you’re a bad example reminded me of my kids 😂 I would also love to see a “bucket & balloon” experiment!!!
You can use whatever brand yeast you want, but you do need to get the right kind. They are different strains of yeast usually so it very much does change things.
I'd suggest going to a home-brew store and ask their reccomendation/use the brand they stock. It'll be way cheaper and usually pretty decent
I can definitely see Mrs. Barry pestering you for another of those machines now!
What great video!!! Love the enthusiasm. Loved the process! Loved the results! The company will be kicking themselves for not sponsoring this video :)