Here we have a taste of the Black Rock beer kit we brewed earlier.25 Comments
Easy home brewing a Black Rock Pilsener canned beer kit. This is called extract brewing, or “kit” brewing.
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In this video we are brewing a Canadian Red beer kit. Taste test video will be available once the beer is ready. This is an extract brewing method, an easy way to make great tasting beer at home with very little time and equipment.
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Learn to make a 5 gallon batch of blueberry honey wheat beer using the super simple no-boil method. Takes about 20 minutes. Bottling video soon to follow in about 30 days.
Dry Yeast Safale WB-06
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Briess Bavarian Wheat Malt Extract x1
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Whole Hops Hallertau (German)
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Sodium Metabisulfite – 2 oz (Sanitizer)
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Other Equip Used:
Build your own homebrew starter kit
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Blueberries were frozen variety from Walmart, nuked in the microwave on 5 minutes assuming they’re still frozen.
Discussion forum or to ask questions go to:
http://simplehomebrewing.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=87&replies=1#post-494
Cost Breakdown:
The extract and the hops ran me right at $13 here locally. I already had the yeast on hand but figure another $2 for that. The honey is optional but I buy honey in bulk so that cost me $6 for 4#. The Blueberries were $3. Total cost was about $24 for this 6 gallon batch. Of course I already own the brewing kit and supplies and the bottles to bottle the beer.
If you want a cost per bottle breakdown assume you’re going to lose about 1/2 gallon to sediment so that puts total volume of finished beer at 5.5 gallons. Standard US beer bottles are 12 fluid ounces. 5.5 gallons = 704 fluid ounces. That would get you about 33 bottles at a cost of about 73 cents each. Keep in mind that’s custom brewed beer. You control every aspect of taste and flavor
Even on a good day you’re lucky if you can get a 6pack of beer for $5 and that’s pretty low quality beer. A six back of Samuel Adams Cherry or Coastal Wheat which is pretty close quality to this beer will run me about $7 after tax to a tune of about $1.17/bottle compared to our cost of $0.73/bottle and we get to control the flavor.
Notice I’m not factoring in the cost of water. I use Ozarka water because we subscribe to that service anyway and always have more than we can drink. If i were to figure that into the cost it would take my total cost for the batch to 32.50 and our price per bottle to 98 cents each, still significantly lower than retail. However, You don’t have to use Ozarka water. Tap water run through a brita (or other carbon) filter will work just as well. The cost of filtering the water yourself makes water a negligable expense.
The blueberries and honey are also optional expense. If you leave them out you’ll still have a perfectly good wheat beer. If I were going to do that I would have used about 6# of wheat extract though. Bulk extract runs me $2.79/# so that would be 16.74(extract)+$3(hops&yeast) to $19.74 batch total. If that yeilds 33 bottles that means you’re paying right at 60 cents per bottle. The whole point of brewing at home though is for flavor and control thereof so I naturally opt for the honey and blueberries.
Duration : 0:25:47
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Bottling my Cooper’s Micro Brew home brew kit.25 Comments
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Just another brewing video as requested. There’s not much more I can do with a beer kit. There is, however, additional information in this video that may answer some of your questions.
Duration : 0:8:36
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Just another brewing video as requested. There’s not much more I can do with a beer kit. There is, however, additional information in this video that may answer some of your questions.
Duration : 0:9:11
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Just another brewing video as requested. There’s not much more I can do with a beer kit. There is, however, additional information in this video that may answer some of your questions.
Duration : 0:10:23
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