This was amazing. I have told you I am a Stout and Porter lover with beer and when you kept describing how well it turned out even without the use of the nitro and all you did was change a tip, you made me want to try you made more and more. Thank you for brewing this and when you mentioned the name Guinness I also love their extra Stout as well.
Great vid, We all know how important the water chemistry is with any beer, with that being said it would be very helpful to list your target mash and wort PH levels. I did see you point out your mash PH briefly. I believe perfect PH is the secret to all great beers along with other things but PH being number one. Prost! Keep those awesome videos coming!
Great video! As always loads of good info. I always brew an Irish Stout this time of year for St. Patty’s Day, and the recipe isn’t too far from your own. For a 5 gallon biab 6 lbs Maris Otter pale/ Golden Promise 1 lb flaked barley 1lb flaked rye 1 lb English roasted barley 60 min hop addition to 38-40 ibu. Usually this one comes in over the dry Irish stout carigory but I don’t care, it tastes amazing. Anyways thanks for the video and keep up the good work. Cheers.
Good intro Steve, going full brajlord! Funny on the west coast of NH that blizzard produced 4 inches of snow and a bunch of ice. Wierd weather this year
The intro was J. R. R. Tolkien meets "The Revenant" haha absolutely great! BTW every time I watch your videos I dread the tasting session. Your sipping and smacking make me thirsty and and I can almost taste the beer with you! This is torture while being at work hahaha great content as always! Cheers, Steve.
Great fun in the snow! I need to get another stout on the go. The stout attachment is a great idea, I need pick up one of those for my kegerator. Cheers!
WOW!!!! WOW!!!!! The intro was OUTSTANDING!!!!!!! I had to check to be sure I was on your channel LOL because I watch a lot of outdoor videos also. Best intro to a brew video I’ve ever seen. You gotta do more stuff like this. 👍🏻👍🏻🍺🍺🍺🍺
Haha I'm very happy you found it so entertaining! I had a blast putting it together, and maybe I can try to put together some more things like this in the future. Cheers Tom!!
We got like 29 inches south of Boston in that storm! Being a propane brewer this winter has drained my motivation to brew and you’re out there still at it lol. Great intro btw
Great Video, you raised the bar with this one. Can we expect more intros like that in the future? Thanks for the faux nitro tips. I have a Dry Irish Stout fermenting now that I will be trying your tips on.
I wish I could promise this every time haha, but I would like to play around with the idea of something like this in more videos in the future. Cheers!
I don't have a keg setup, I bottle condition my beers, I have a export/extra stout from September last year, about 6% ABV and 45 IBUs I've found that if I pour it into a glass vigorously it releases the co2 and I don't get as bloated and it tastes creamier than when I just pour it softly. I've considered getting a keggerator but I just don't have the space unfortunately, but I'm considering getting just a small 2 litre keg from ikegger and just fill it up when bottling and serve it on nitro, or whipped cream cartridges, and that can live in my fridge door in the milk compartment. Id get one of those stout taps for sure, looks awesome!! BTW your weather seems whack lol, blizzard one day warm the next, I don't know if I would cope in those conditions, lol, I live in Australia I spose, winter nights some times -1 to -3° c and in summer can get to like 40 to 50° c in some places, although this past summer we barely got to 40° c at all, most days were nice between 23-38 ° c
Now this start is an advertisement I would not mind seeing at the start of a movie in a theatre! Provided, I have time after to grab a stout afterwards :)
Wow you really got into it. Awesome! Two and a Half Pints Homebrew watch out! LOL. Oh btw I think you have a wasp nest under your railing. 1:48. Cheers!
Ha! Nowhere close to the art they create, but thank you! Thanks for the eagle eye on the wasp nest, that explains why there were so many back in the fall. I'll take care of that before the spring!
I like the looks and comments on your Irish Stout recipe. Would you please list the Lovidbond values for the grains you used. Congrats on the Bronze. I've entered several local competitions as well as volunteered as a Steward, you might like the Steward's duty because you'll have a chance to see the competition up close.
Cheers for the shoutout! Fantastic looking beer, that stout nozzle looks pretty decent too to simulate that effect! By the way, your audio was remarkably clear even for all that blizzard, are you using the Rode Lavalier Mic?
Anytime! Yup, $13 vs $200 to get something similar to nitro is a win for me. So actually my recorder died on me during the storm clips, so that was actually the camera-mounted Rode videomic pro. The Rode lav mic is on for the tasting section clips though.
Hey! Great video. Definitely one of my favorite brewing RU-vidrs. I am planning on brewing your stout. What’s the point of carbonating it if the plan is to knock out the carbonation? Would a stout nozzle still be necessary?
Glad you enjoy the videos! You don't want to knock all the carbonation out, just some of it. And this is just fine on a regular tap, it's really just a nuanced thing
Sadly i dont keg my beers. I guess for bottling i just have to go for a very low carbonation with very little priming sugar to compensate for the lack of having that special tap i suppose?
Great video, that stout looked awesome! I brewed my first beer recently, a"West Coast"! Got many problems (lower OG, higher FG), what surprised me the most was the lack of hop flavor. The hops seemed to hug the kettle during the boil, do you scrape the hop residue off during the boil? Either that, or my boil was too vigorous, just a guess. :)
I wouldnt worry about scraping hop residue off the side of the kettle, actually its better to avoid getting that into the fermenter. I would makesure your hops weren't old and that you didnt expose the beer to oxygen during the dry hop or conditioning process. Also a higher FG will make your beer more sweet and can take away from hop flavor coming through. Might also be your source water
So I saw that same syringe trick...I tried it with some kid medicine syringes, no idea if those are wrong or right, but it seemed to work too well and caused my beer to overflow like crazy...for sure going to try it again and just not push down so hard...but I loves me an Irish stout
I think brewing a stout during a blizzard is a perfect fit. That thick creamy head is like pure fluffy snow on the ground, right? Not that I'd know as I'm in Florida and we get maybe 7 or 8 days a year we can turn off our A/C. :D Seriously though, I am a bit jealous of people who get changes to their seasons. We get about 10 months of summer, a week of winter and the rest is our "Summer Light" season.
I just bought a stout spout, but I cannot seem to get the flow correct. Can I ask what your beer line length is, and what size tubing, as well as what PSI your stout keg is set to? Thanks!
I think I had the beer line (vinyl) at 5 ft and it's 3/16" inner diameter. I pushed through the stout faucet at a but higher of a pressure, about 12 PSI
I just brewed an Irish Stout which to me came out feeling a little thin. Your recipe gives me something to think about. Do you prefer Flaked Barley over Flaked Oats? I was hopeful that the flaked oats would add some body to the beer. Our recipe isn't that different otherwise. I used 2-row instead of MO, used about 1/2 the roasted barley you did, and I split up the Chocolate addition with 1/2 Chocolate Rye, just to see what that would do. Beer tastes pretty good, just feels like it needs a little something more. Cheers!
I feel like oats add a little bit different of mouthfeel than Flaked barley, and Maris otter can also make the beer feel a bit fuller. I think it still would be enjoyable. Cheers!
Got to be honest, not a fan of the two and a half minute intro. But TBH I'm not a fan of intros at all. Don't know why RU-vidrs make them. (call me impatient 😬)