Home Brewing and Making Beer
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I woke up this morning to find my India Pale Ale had clogged the airlock was rapidly building pressure within the primary fermenter. Apparently, I didn’t listen to the first “BrewFanatics Quick Video” about overfilling your fermenter. Anyway, I quickly removed the airlock to release the pressure and tons of fermentation excess began spewing out. [...]
Tommy from www.BrewFanatics.com introduces you to the basic equipment found in a home brewing starter kit. He also shows you the contents of a beer recipe ingredient kit. Cheers!      
Tommy from www.BrewFanatics.com takes you through the first steps of making your own beer. In this video he shows you how to properly add the ingredients to your boiling water. Once the ingredients are fully dissolved in the water we have wort, which is basically beer before it has alcohol in it. Hope you enjoy. [...]
Tommy from www.BrewFanatics.com takes you through the steps of making your own beer. In this video he shows you how to bring your wort to a boil and then cool it right back down again. Also, we add the wort and our little yeast buddies to our primary fermenter, so they can do their fermentation [...]
Josh and Dave from the BrewFanatics crack open the first two bottles of their recent home brew (Irish Red Ale). One bottle is from the “Low Temp Mash” batch and the other from the “High Temp Mash.” There were various differences along the way in color, clarity, ABV, and onset of fermentation. This video covers [...]
In this episode of BrewFanatics TV, Tommy travels to Mickey Finn’s Brewery / Pub in Libertyville, Illinois to guest brew a big batch of beer with the Brewmaster; Greg Browne. In Part 2, Tommy follows Greg and Lane around as they brew a Helles style beer. Tommy gives you a sneak peak of everything that [...]
In this BrewFanatics TV mini-series, Tommy travels to downtown Chicago for the Brewers Association’s Craft Brewers Conference. The three-day event included seminars, the Brew Expo America trade show, the World Beer Cup, the Gala Awards dinner, local brewery tours, and tons of fun parties. Unfortunately, Dave and Josh couldn’t attend the event. In this episode, [...]
Tommy from www.BrewFanatics.com takes you through the steps of making your own beer. In this video he shows you what proper yeast fermentation looks like and how to transfer your beer from the primary fermenter to the bottling bucket using an auto siphon. Then he shows you how to bottle and cap your beer. I [...]