All Grain Brew Day - Step by Step Tutorial for Beginners

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In this video you will learn step-by-step how to brew your own beer on brew day. I brew a 5 gallon all grain batch of beer, using a mash tun and batch sparge method. I cover everything from start to finish, beginning with milling grains/malt, go through the mash rest and sparging details, recirculation (called vorlaufing) of your wort, the entire boil process with hop additions, cooling your wort, all the way to pitching the yeast in the fermenter.

In this video I brew Bell's Oberon American Wheat Ale, using the brewery's own recipe from their website. You can actually buy their home brewing kits, or find the recipe and instructions at:

OR

Here is the recipe:
Grains:
2-Row 6.0 lbs. (50%)
White Wheat Malt 5.0 lbs (41.6%)
Munich Malt 0.5 lbs (4.2%)
CaraPils Malt 0.5 lbs. (4.2%)

Mash Thickness 1.33
Mash Temp: 150F

Hops:
Perle Hops 1 oz. 60 mins
Hersbrucker Hops 1 oz. 30 mins
Saaz Hops 2 oz. Flameout

Yeast:
Imperial A62(Bell's House Yeast) that you have to buy from their website above - OR -

Alternatively, you can use clean ale yeasts like Safale US-04, Safale US-05, White Labs WLP001 or even an American Wheat Ale such as Wyeast American Wheat 1010, (don't use other wheat yeasts like a hefeweizen because you will get banana/clove flavors which is not found in Oberon). I HIGHLY recommend using their yeast if you can, using the harvesting method above. It is easy and fun, and more importantly, free with a 6 pack of bottles!

Fermentation Temp: 68-72 (I like to be on the cooler side at 68-69)

Target Numbers:
OG - 1.056
FG - 1.012
ABV 5.8%
SRM 25.7
IBU 40.9

You can see all the exact equipment I use in my videos at my Amazon page here:

Check out my other tutorial videos!
Intro to Home Brewing - Starter Equipment:
Transfer to a secondary:
Bottle or Kegging your Beer:
Extract Brew Day - Step by Step Tutorial for Beginners:
How to make a yeast starter:
Harvest Yeast from Commercial Beer:

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I just did my first all grain beer and I couldn't have done it without you! You do just an excellent job explaining the complete all grain brewing process. Your instructions are clear, concise and extremely well communicated. Thanks to your video, my first brew came out excellent!! Well done my man, well done!!!

[HighTeaWithTheQueen]

Thank you so much. I just started my brewing journey and almost all the videos I’ve come across on YT didn’t go through step by step and i found it really hard to follow. I’m so happy that your video appeared on my feed.

[justadude]

I watched a ton of videos before I saw yours. By a mile, one of the best instructional videos I have seen on the full process. Thanks man. You cleared up a bunch for me.

[riseabovethesheep]

Thank you for the video. Most others I saw were summaries and didn’t show the steps of the process. This was super helpful and tied it all together for me. Now I’m ready!

[tonycarmichael]

I paired your detailed video instructions with a bunch of reading and it made my first Brew Day a breeze, thanks so much for taking the time to produce this video!

[jessehess]

This is the best step by step all grain video I’ve found. I’m brewing my first all grain as I type this, and you made an extremely helpful video. Thank you!

[noeldean]

Extremely helpful in detail and much appreciated

[jmsfabrication]

That fermentor is a great idea! I used to cover the carboy with an electric heating blanket hooked up to a digital temperature controller. I'd just put the temperature probe under the electric blanket against the glass carboy and keep it around 72°.

[keithslayback]

Yes thank you I did learn some things I needed to know I understand sparging what it is and does but looked at the calculator you were talking about and really confused on that

[cycy]

This helped so much! A detailed, step-by-step and chronological video that’s well made. Thank you!

[trentonjeffers]

Finally a video that shows the process lol thank you.. time to brew

[donnerundblitzen]

I did my first homebrew in August last year. I started with liquid malt extract and steeping grains. I then graduated to large partial mash (7-9 lbs malted grain) plus about 2.25 to 4 lbs LME, depending on the recipe. My 5 gallon kettle fits inside my oven, so I preheat the oven to 170 degrees, fill the kettle with hot water and the crushed grains, and mash inside my oven using Brew in a Bag for an hour. About half way thru, I take the kettle out, stir the grains, put it back in the oven and turn on the electric element for about 1 minute. The oven holds temp very well. I was told that the stove top on most stoves lacks the oomph to boil an all grain batch. I questioned that wisdom and bought an eight gallon Megapot (no ball valve) from Northern Brewer and began doing all grain boils (about 6.65 gallons to a little more) on my stove top last January. The stove top is stout enough to do more than a gallon boil off per hour. Mashing in a 5 gallon kettle long term has its limits. So, I did what you show here and bought a 10 gallon RubberMaid water cooler, put in a stainless steel ball valve, and do Brew in a Bag inside it. I can either do no rinse, traditional BIAB with about 7.5 to 8 gallons of hot water, or I can put in about half the water and rinse with about the same amount. The ball valve will accept either a torpedo screen or a false bottom, but I have only done BIAB inside it. I bought extra large (31" by 31") BIAB bags on Amazon (2 for 12.99). That size is perfect for the water cooler. It is big enough to fit over the two large, fixed in place handles. I then secure it with a 24" and an 13" bungee cord and that works just fine as well. The lid on the water cooler will screw closed with the bag in place. I mash for an hour at 152 and the temp may drop to 151 after an hour, if that. The 10 gallon cooler is great for mashing! All sorts of head room, draining thru the ball valve instead of lifting out the bag gets rid of most of the mess and saves my back. Your videos have helped me as a novice brewer. Thanks.

[kylemiller]

Great video. Just bought an all in one system from Delta brewing systems, can’t wait to use it. Cheers.

[mudfish]

Nicely explained for a newbie all-grainer like me, thanks mate.

[Javaman]

Okay, at the 4 and a half gallons of 170 degree water that I'd have to lift to sparge using this method has made me decide that the BIAB method is for me. The lift would cost me less than the additional cooler and I wouldn't have to lift anything. Watching this again I picked up stuff I missed the first time I watched it. So much good stuff here!

[shadownet_nft]

Great walkthrough! I am zoning in on the recipe but still a way off on the OG. Thanks for this video tutorial.

[akuakyeremateng]

Hi,
Informative video. What did u add to give the clear look pls? I didn't quite the name.

[patinaz]

Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

[christophere]

what a great detailed step by step video .Thanks for the info, ready to try first all grain beer.

[EricJD]

Thanks for the video. I want to go to all grain soon. Have a few questions.
1- what size boil kettle do you use for five gallon recipes?
2- I bought a mesh bag specifically made for 10 gallon Rubbermaid cooler mash tun ( that was given to me without a false bottom)
Advertised as takes place of a false bottom and makes for easier cleaning of mash tun).
Do you see any negatives of using this rather than a false bottom?
3- every thing I see about sparge water is to make it rain over the grain bed. I see you dumped all the 170 degree water in at once and stirred and let sit for 20 minutes). What is the difference? Why would some do it this way as opposed to how you did?