Hurricane Alex Rain Water Beer, finally the taste testing! Also on tap Coopers Selection Wheat Beer canned kit beer taste testing.
After getting a fresh Coopers English Bitter kit from makebeer.net and it turned out fine, but tasting it in tandem with commercially bottled Coopers revealed I simply do not like the Pride of Ringwood hops that Coopers uses, I now needed to test a Coopers kit from my local brewshop. I’d made Coopers kits purchased from my local brewshop some time ago and they turned out poorly. Ruling out the hop bittering, was it my fermentation temperatures or was I getting damaged kits (shipped or stored to hot making them go bad before their expiration date) from my local brewshop? We finally find out in this video.
The bottom line in all homebrew beer making is if you, your family & friends like it, you’ve made a successful beer. Anyone who tells you differently isn’t, uh, well, honestly, isn’t anything.
Cheers, have a homebrew!
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Here’s my video on collecting the Hurricane Alex Rain Water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZ9EzxTGhw
Here’s my video on filtering the Hurricane Alex Rain Water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcl4Hm-kUK0
Here’s the video I made on brew day for the Hurricane Alex Rain Water Beer, Banks’s Mild Ale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Tbhg8hHHw
Music by Antiqcool
www.antiqcool.co.uk
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Edited in Windows 7 with Windows Live Movie Maker
Duration : 0:9:13
This is a taste test of the recent Scottish Export 80 home brew kit that I got from JOMalone3113. This was a partial extract home brew kit, meaning that it contained the same malt extract you would normally get in a canned kit, plus the fresh grains that beer is always made of. Keep in mind that most beer that you buy is made from malt extract. Using fresh grains when making your home brew adds a killer fresh taste that is similar to your favourite micro brewed beer.
This is a double taste test of the Cooper’s Lager brewed with maple syrup and the Cooper’s Dark Ale, which was kegged.
The debate between extract vs. all grain is over. These are two totally different ways of making beer, and they will yield different results. But, the fact is, most beginners don’t want a complicated procedure. If they gain confidence from kit brewing, they are likely to go on to more advanced methods. Extract brewing has it’s place in the arena, and there is no debate as far as I’m concerned. 
An intuitive method of sanitizing your equipment before you start making a home brew (beer or wine).
It’s been over 2 MONTHS since I’ve purchased beer from the store. 
We are going to cover everything from Sanitation, all the way to Tasting. 
when you bottle your beer and store it in the basement, the temperature might not be warm enough. This video talks about a simple heating system that will solve this problem.
How To Brew Beer At Home – pt 1 – Sanitation
My Home Brew Beer in the laser etched Carlsberg Glass tasting as good as it looks..It’s a Young’s (UK) basic 1.5kg lager kit souped up to a ‘real’ pint by a bit of tweaking.!It’s a good product but lacks a little meat so I like to customise it a bit. This is what I started producing after watching Craigtube ‘home brew beer the easy way’ Thanks again Craig. I still find it amazing that you can brew this quality at home.Forget the pub you wont find this quality there ( in my country). In pubs here you have the staggering array of choice.i.e: Guinness/BUDWEISER/Carlsberg and Maybe Smithwicks Ale and Bulmers (Magners intnl)EVERYWHERE you go.