TOP 10 ITEMS That Make Brewing SO MUCH EASIER

In this video, I want to share with you my TOP 10 game changing random things that have made my brew day so much easier. None of these are particularly expensive but they all help me have a successful and easier brewing experience!
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ITEMS DISCUSSED IN THIS VIDEO:
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0:00 Intro and welcome
1:10 Item 1
2:25 Item 2
3:20 Item 3
4:14 Item 4
5:18 Item 5
6:53 Item 6
7:56 Item 7
9:08 Item 8
10:33 Item 9
12:01 Item 10
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[henrik]

One thing that made my brewing life easier is my Fermzilla All Rounder. A pressurized fermentation vessel makes it so much easier to do almost oxygen free transfers to the keg. Oh, and kegs! I did three brews with bottles and carbonation sugar, then I said to myself, it's kegs or this hobby goes!

[craigcousineauprovidencepa]

Hell yes on the seed mat. Great hack for diacetyl rests.

[rickfoss]

Great video. I just started home brewing myself, found your page to be a lot of help. I brewed my first beer last weekend and im using a small crockpot without the actual pot in it to keep my fermenter warm. Has worked like a charm!

[Dayman.]

Great tips. I considered getting some canned wort about 12 months ago but living on an island in the middle of the Atlantic means shipping this stuff can get pretty expensive and my LHBS doesn't carry them.
What I ended up doing, which is very easy, is to prep 5 yeast starters at a time in mason jars. I simply add 100g of DME and some yeast nutrients to jars with about 400mL of water, shake them until everything is disolved. I then loosely fit the lid on the jars and place them in a water bath in my oven and heat until the water has reached about 70-80°C and keep it there for about 30 mins. I then let them cool down, screw the lid down and store for when I need them. When I need to make a starter I just pull out a jar, dump it in my erlenmeyer flask, add water and yeast.

[TheBruSho]

That 3 way valve is a really awesome idea! Looking forward to more tips and tricks this month

[gerardnatale]

I finally got some quick disconnects for my system and just brewed with them a couple of days ago. They made my brew day so much easier! No more spills on the floor and squirts on my clothes! They are now a top ten item for me. Happy New Year Steve!

[PartyTimeBrewing]

I may have to look into that fermcap stuff. As well as 3 way valves. Lots of great ideas here! Cheers!

[Alex-irnx]

Those large plant pot movers with wheels helps me move all sorts of heavy brewing gear, great for moving full fermenters as an example

[JimFosterVO]

In Experimental Homebrewing, Denny Conn gives a method for making one's own canned wort for yeast starters. It does require pressure canning, and mason jars, but it has the advantage of being a scaleable and reusable process. One might think it the perfect thing to work on in a dry month. :)

[ElementaryBrewingCo]

Great list! I’ll have to check out those 3 way valves for sure!!! I also gotta say I don’t know what I’d do with out my Inkbird as well, pretty cheap and very useful!! Cheers and Happy New Year!!!

[JeffTheHokie]

For Pre-made starter wort, if I don't have DME around I just use Goya Malta. It's an unfermented malt beverage in 12 oz bottles (any supermarket) for a little over a dollar a bottle. Purists may cringe at the amount of added sugar, but it gets the job done.

$7.50 a can for starter wort plus the cost of a new batch of liquid yeast for each batch? Those costs can really add up. You've just added 1/3 to 1/4 to your ingredient costs on just the yeast alone.

I put a couple spoonfuls of saved trub into a sanitized mason jar with either a bottle of malta or a cup of homemade (boiled and cooled) dme wort. Set that out for a day or two with a loose lid. If it's fizzing in a day or two I know the saved yeast was good, and I get almost no lag. If it isn't, then I found out without ruining a batch, and I add fresh yeast.

[me]

-Tilt Hydrometer
-Uline wire cart
-Brewhardware Spincycle
-Brewhardware high flow diptube for edge pickup
-Jaded hydra with a submersible pump

Where did you get the inline site glass for your silicone tubing?

And thank you for the tip to remove the bazooka screen from my Clawhammer. This has really helped.

[rafaelpestano]

Nice list! My top 3 game changers are the Erlenmeyer, a stir plate and a fermentation fridge. Those really changed my beers but I also use a lot from your list 😜. Cheers!

[timothywilliams]

I use a 60w ceramic reptile heater with an inkbird controller in a chest freezer/ fermentation chamber. Super cheap and easy.
It screws into a regular light socket and radiates heat. Works great. Zero issues for a couple year's now. Started with 2 found just using 1 is fine.
Cost me about $25 to build.
Free freezer
Old light socket and cord
Controller is about $15
Around $10 for 2 ceramic heaters

[TroubleBrewing]

Great recommendations, I dont have fermcap yet but I have herd from multiple people that its a great cheep buy! Ill check it out.

[PatrickPawlowski]

This is a pretty old post but I usually start my brew year off by ordering 10lbs of base malt and create a 5-gallon batch of starter wort. Divvy it up into 20 quart sized mason jars and then process them. I process them, 3 at a time, under pressure in my 8-quart Instant Pot for 15 minutes.

[jonathanwilliams]

Getting an RO/DI filter is amazing as well. Saves you from needing to buy water or go to a Glacier Water dispenser. Getting a unitank with glycol chiller was also amazing. It makes managing every aspect of cold side easy...some aspects are impossible without a unitank. My next step is going single vessel EBIB. Tired of washing multiple vessels, refilling propane, and fly sparging.

[CarloBernini]

Here's the list of things that changed my brewing the most (no particular order):
- Doing water treatment by demineralising water and adding appropriate salts for a specific water profiles
- Using Tri-Clamp connections throughout my whole setup
- A no-compromise pump (Riptide)
- A no-compromise malt mill (Mattmill Master)

[bandanabush]

I use a heat mat like the one mentioned here, usually wrapped around a corny keg and plugged into a Inkbird to ferment Kviek or Belgian strains!

[Identace]

Yes!!! Use canned wort!!! I've been using that same brand for the last 2 years!! I hardly ever hear home Brewers mention it. But it's a total game changer!! Bring your old yeast back to life!!!