Anvil really have nailed down their spot as a great value for money brand. Made great beer for years in buckets, you don't need expensive stuff. This is great stuff braj, but I'm gonna need your affiliate link for gravity...
Hahah love your IG handle, great name I’ll have to hit it up with all my questions 😂. But joking aside these were some really great tools. Awesome vid as always!
As a born again brewer the container at the end of the ferment is most important, bottle, keg... . I brew for myself so I take short cuts. "It is good to be the king"
Gamma lids and FG 5 gal buckets FTW. Idk if you have a Lowe’s home improvement where you at but you can get a bucket with water/air tight lid for around $15
I live in “The Dirty South” and have my brewery in the garage where temps get crazy high. I agree with most of your ideas but here a chest freezer with a inkbird is the only way to go for temp control.
I feel ya. I live in Tennessee. Not conducive to good beer making. I need someone to walk the dog on a good fermentation system and process other than a dark room under a vent in a cooler with a wet towel.
Kveik yeast my friends, I live in South Australia, Summer temps get to 115 degrees. Pitch your yeast on a 86 degree wort and set it to rip at 86. she will be fully fermenting hard with in 5 hours, its amazing stuff
We live that boujee lifestyle and use one of those food prep services, food in a box through the mail (what a world). They keep the food cold by using these plastic bag freezer packs, and there's normal 2 or 3 in the box. I keep about 20~ of them in my brew fridge/freezer and use them in place of ice, and just toss any broken ones.
I’ve been using them for over a year and just recently got myself a total of two with the pump stuff. You can use an immersion heater to bring up temperature for saison or kveik.
For hose clamps, I never liked the plastic ones, but I fount packs of like 10 hose clamps on amazon that have a plastic wingnut style thing for hand tightening. Love 'em.
I like the oetiker clamps better than the worm hose clamps. Yeah you have to buy a 20$ crimp tool, but the clamps are cheaper and they make a nice seal and never loosen. The amount of times ive slipped and stabbed myself with a flathead trying to tighten a wet worm hose clamp inside a kegerator, or a keg that just went flat cause a hose clamp somehow decided to loosen itself.... the oetiker tool is worth it.
Nice if you watch to the end he has a clip of an old school video. Even using a glass carboy & dry yeast. You showed my son wearing the Zelda shirt! He's going to love that!
the only problem would be the trub / sediment from the yeast in the fermenter and the challenge of adding your priming sugar. I imagine if you're REALLY careful and use tablets for priming you could pull it off. If you're careful about your transfer into a bottling bucket you'll minimize o2 exposure. Recommend kegging as quickly as you can afford it.
I use old plastic carboys and 5gal plastic water jugs to store grain. To fill them up I use a funnel. Its so easy to weigh grain no scoops, just pour from the jug/carboy.
When I was new to kegging. I didn’t use a hose clamp and the beer line popped off in the night and pumped 5 gallons of my hard earned brew into my fridge and all over the garage floor 🤣 sucked balls. I use the ones with finger tightening grips now for ease of use. Some lessons are hard learned.
Got to be one of the best homebrew channels around for sure!! Cheers mate from Australia! Gonnna give your Schwarzbier recipe a crack for my next brew!
Goddamn braj I have to double comment just to remind you this is the best homebrew channel this side of the Rio Grande. Gravity and lettuce drawer on top ten, content you just can't get anywhere else.
I got an Anvil bucket about six months ago. I loved that they offer the cooling system a la carte. Only bought the pieces I didn't already have and it works great....other than the annoying screech when I take it out.
Your top 10 are well received braj, I took notes. I appreciate the post, much time tested and experienced insight from you. I continue in the homebrew quest, I'm having a basic homebrew mead tonight, a little different but I enjoy the crispy and fizzy texture and flavor, best batch I ever made. May your cup overfloweth in all good ways, cheers!
@@HOMEBREW4LIFE My braj. I’ve been in between the two for a while now. The look of the ssbrewtech is nice and I like that they’re stackable but I’m all about saving some dough.
I splurged on the ss and don't regret it. The ss 7gal is $199, the anvil 7.5 is $129. The ss 3.5 is $129, the anvil 4 is $99. Anvil makes great stuff, can't go wrong, either will out live you.
I can't believe a budget conscious braj such as yourself has never reused yeast. Here is a little hack to save money on yeast: make an extra large starter and only use half of it in your current beer and use the second half in your next. Boom you just cut your yeast cost in half.
Seen something on back of a van the other day that made me think of you : #brajnability It was that without the j. I was like whoa! Put a J in there and BRAJNABILITY! Another great vid dood!
Just noticed this video, probably passed it over in my subscription list from the pic. Im subscribed to lots of gun channels. Fun fact I had a very similar pistol to the one in the pic, traded an m1917 rifle for it. Then traded that for a savage 308 110 sniper rifle. One of the most useful tools for me has been a harbor freight chain hoist along with a cheap squat rack and a steel pipe for lifting biab from kettles.
Love your content, keep up the good work. My favorite episode is the creamicle IPA one. I first watched it when I was a freshmen brewer pre-covid so a lot of the content discussed was above my knowledge, but nonetheless still intriguing. However, I like to review it every 6 months or so and I admire and appreciate how in depth and intuitive it really is whilst being relatable and entertaining. Sending love from down under bro :)
