As a homebrewer, how much do you focus on water chemistry? And is there anything else you'd like to me explain in a future video that I may have missed?

Wow! Thanks so much for the shoutout! Happy to test your water for you!

Nice work brother!! Good overview o the brewfather water section. I love that software! 👍🍻

This is some serious high quality homebrew content. Can't wait to see more!

Wow, that's a completely new level of production quality for a homebrewing video. Thanks a lot, I love your videos and your brewery!

I don’t know how I got here but I am intrigued and entertained

best you tube video award in the soundtrack category goes to ... this video!

The Owls Are Not What They Seem is a great name for a beer! I'm brewing a Black Lodge Stout next week!

Came to increase my knowledge of water chemistry, stayed for the totally banging rock music🤘

This was the most rocking homebrew video I've watched in a while. I love seeing when creators are having a good time while filming, you're an inspiration!

That rock and roll segment made me spit up my coffee! Awesome video dude. And you shred!

This Is The Way.

He's got two videos, and over 3k followers. He's doing it right.

Bro....... I’m in! Best brewing channel entertainment wise out right now. What can we expect for release of videos?? I’ll post ya up in the brew groups if you’re going to be consistent!

This is the RO Water video I had no idea I needed in my life. But now, I can't imagine my life without it.

Dang, I need more videos. Excellent start to the channel and super informative!

The video is GREAT!! RO water is the way to go. The brewery is very nice. The experiments performed in homebrewing have no connection with ale and lager because the instructions for producing homebrew are based on producing distillers beer. Alpha, glucose, and a single temperature infusion are only needed for producing distillers beer. The steps that are needed for producing ale and lager are skipped in homebrewing because the steps require a lot more work and time, costlier ingredients, and more equipment, than it takes to make homebrew. Conversion, dextrinization and gelatinization steps are skipped in homebrewing and when the steps are skipped ale and lager cannot be produced. The only purpose of Alpha is to release, glucose, which is a building block of life, from starch, and the enzyme works quite efficiently at 98.6F. Glucose is responsible for primary fermentation and ABV. The single temperature brewing method, chemically and enzymatically, cannot produce ale and lager, due to the way that enzymes work and chemical precipitation, making strike and target temperature not so useful for producing ale. The high temperatures used in homebrewing denatures the low temperature activated enzymes required for making ale and lager, Beta, in particular. The brewing method produces extract that is chemically imbalanced, sugar imbalanced and unstable, which produces beer with short, shelf life. Homebrew is artificially carbonated with sugar or CO2 injection and drank, green, boiler to belly in four to eight weeks, because the beer, rapidly, deteriorates during fermentation and conditioning. When conversion occurs, secondary fermentation takes place. Beta is the converter (140F), the enzyme converts simple sugar, glucose, that Alpha releases from amylose during liquefaction, into complex sugars, maltose and maltotriose, which are the types of sugar needed for making ale and lager. Yeast works differently on maltose than it does on glucose and it takes place during secondary fermentation. Beer doesn't need to be artificially carbonated with sugar or CO2 injection, due to maltotriose. When conversion occurs, beer tends to overly dry and thin during fermentation and conditioning. To counteract the negative impact, two steps are used in brewing ale and lager that cause dextrinization and gelatinization to occur. Dextrinization and gelatinization are responsible for body and mouthfeel in beer. The steps are skipped in homebrewing because of the time and work involved. There's a type of hard, heat resistant, complex, starch in malt that makes up the tips of malt, called amylopectin. Contained in amylopectin are A and B limit dextrin, which are tasteless, nonfermenting, types of sugar responsible for body and mouthfeel in beer, along with a type of albuminus protein that doesn't form at high temperature. The temperatures in homebrewing are too, low to burst the heat resistant, starch, where it enters into the mash liquid, before Alpha denatures and the richest starch is thrown away with the spent mash, unused and paid for. Mash is boiled to take advantage of the starch and when the boiling mash is added back into the main mash, Alpha, liquefies amylopectin and dextrinization and gelatinization occurs. Pectin is responsible for gelatinization, it's cellular glue that holds beer together through the long conditioning cycle that ale and lager go through. To produce high octane distillers beer soak malt at 150F because at the temperature Alpha releases the highest volume of glucose, as possible, from starch within a hour. The more glucose the more alcohol. The temperature is used in grain distillation. Test for starch at 30 minutes using Iodine. No starch, move on, nothing more will occur. Marris Otter, Halcyon and Golden Promise are good malts for producing distiller beer. They're high quality, distillers malts. There's a certain malthouse that produces Marris Otter with10 percent protein content, that's the malt to use. However, the malt is over modified and that's OK as long as corn and rice aren't used. Diastatic power is low in the malt. Some six row, malt would need to be added when corn and rice are used. To produce ale and lager an entirely different brewing method and under modified, low protein, malt are used. Under modified, malt is richer in enzyme content than high modified, malt and low protein, malt contains more sugar. Modification and protein content are listed on the malt spec sheet that comes with each bag of malt, which a brewer uses for determining the quality of malt, before it is purchased. Weyermann floor malt and Gladfield's American Malt are under modified and good choices for making ale and lager. To view a malt spec sheet click on Gladfield's website and find American Malt, the spec sheet is on the page. Part way down on the spec sheet, under the EBC column, is Kolbach. Kolbach , S/T and SNR are used for determining level of malt modification. I use data from the EBC when purchasing malt. Malt, 40 Kolbach and lower is under modified. Malt should contain less than 10 percent protein. The higher the Kolbach number and protein content, the less suitable the malt is for producing ale and lager. It's not a bad idea to become familiar with the acronyms and numbers listed on a malt spec sheet. A malt spec sheet is more important than a recipe. Recipes, are a given, anyway. To take advantage of under modified, malt, at the least, a three temperature step mash should be used, which produces pseudo ale and lager. To take full advantage advantage of the rich malt, a triple decoction is used, which produces authentic ale and lager. To soak more expensive, under modified, malt at one temperature is a waste of money because less expensive, high modified, malt will make the same beer, glucose is glucose. To produce cleaner extract skim off hot break as it forms and continue to remove hot break until it drastically, reduces, when that happens, add hops, skim off second break and boil for an hour. Less hops are needed and hop utilization increases because the extract is cleaner. About hops. The percentage of Beta should be listed on a hop container. When the percentage of Beta is missing the quality of hops cannot be determined. The Alpha and Beta numbers should be within a decimal point of each other. The closer the numbers are, the finer and more balanced the hops are. To learn how ale and lager are produced start out with DeClercks books. Abstracts from the IOB are free, online and interesting to read. In the 19th century the IOB made malt, modern when they invented the malt spec sheet. Also, the IOB standardized the tests that brewers performed on malt and moved the testing procedures into the malthouse. Since, time is time, why spend time on producing low quality, distillers beer, when the time can be spent on producing ale and lager? That way you'd be honest when telling a person that the bottle or keg contains ale or lager. STAY SAFE. STAY THIRSTY. STAY BREWING.

you got the makings of a great channel there lad, keep it up. and i would live in that brewery it's class! keep pumping out the vids (and songs!). Slainte, all the way from Ireland :)

Nice work!! Love the setup and your videos are crazy entertaining. Keep em coming.

Love your videos, thanks for posting this!

This is gold! Keep the videos coming!

You the Man !! Finally a nice explanation on how to do water adjustments !! Thx Bro

I love the effort you're putting into these videos, the music skits are just the best!

Great videos 👌 .. now eagerly awaiting the rest!

Great Build ! And very entertaining video , Cheers 🤙🏼🍻

Just started home brewing a few weeks ago and love the video, super helpful. Looking forward to the first brew video

Look here mate. I’m from New Zealand and I’ve never even home brewed a single drop in my life. But I can run a water treatment plant and find this extremely interesting. On top of that I’ve subscribed because of content/music/beer/memes. This is the holy recipe for a channel to blow up and I’ve been part of many channels from the start that have blown up big time incorporating these elements so GOOD LUCK!!

Awesome video! Love the music bits! Keep it up

The level of creativity that comes out of you is absolutely unbelievable. I wish I had one tenth of your creativity and talent. Keep up the amazing work. CHEERS!

After that rock break, i subscribed. Love this video

Great content, will stay tuned!

Been brewing for a while. Excited to finally get into water chemistry! Thanks for the info, and great video as always.

Great video mate! You’ve set the bar to a new high level keep em coming 💪🍻

Loved it mate great info and guitar skills....Cheers

Your video/production quality is on point!

So next level Matt -- love it.

Thanks so much for your dedication to home brewing! As a novice, it’s fantastic to have a resource like you. Keep up the great content!

Epic! 🤘

Awesome and easy explained. Thx :)

Great video, sub’d! Id love to see a video on the RO system build: price, parts, installation, can everything be bought off amazon or is it more niche products? Thx again 🍻

This was great! Super entertaining and educational!

loved this content!

Best video for brewing ever!...WATER is everything for great brews. Newbie brewers watch and then re watch

just "discovered" your channel. AMAZING!

I somehow arrived here. Was intrigued by the subject and subscribed for the song :)

Excellent thank you! Loved the rock scene!

Thanks for this video! Water chemistry is something we want to get into but haven’t really had the know how!

One of the best brew channels I've seen. keep it up

Amazing video!!!!

Great video, looking forward for more!

We need MORE videos from you!

super creative! keep it coming

Your channel is amazing. HOPefully the next video will release sooner!

I've watched a lot of brewing KZfaq. I really like your channel. I hope you keep making videos, they are much better than most of the content out here right now

Outstanding video, very funny and informative. Subscribed

Just throwing it out there that i subbed before he got to 3k subs. Subtle flex.

This is awesome

wow. I just discovered your channel. Its soo good man! Keep it up with the good work!

This channel is going to blow up...

I'm in love! RO WATER!!!

Very refreshing video. Seriously jealous of your setup/man cave. Also enjoyed your chat with James @Basic Brewing. Keep up the great videos.

Came here for water information, stayed for the music

Found your channel from a suggested so the KZfaq formula works! Anyway I hope your channel grows and does well you are super entertaining and very thorough! I just built a full automated herms home brewing system with a touchscreen raspberry pi. I would love to learn more about water additions and suggestions as how you find or come up with these water additions. I will be checking out your website. Thanks!

Great content and hilarious!

I've never really gotten into the water chemistry side of things, but have been considering it lately. I will give Brewfather a gander, thanks.

Very entertaining and informative! 😂🎉😊

You're the highest budget/effort small KZfaq channel I've ever seen. Amazing videos mate and I hope you won't stay a small channel much longer 👍

cant wait for your next video....

Excellent, great setup and thanks for sharing! I just got into water chemistry and started using Brewfather to calculate. Now, even more the reason to add the RO filter in my brew room. Thanks to Short Circuited Brewer for providing the link to this video!

Cant wait first brew. like the songs in betwen......🍻🔝👍

Great content, keep it up!

Just like they use to make beer olden days😄👍

You are genius! 👍🏻😁

Great vid man!! i totally get it now, definitely using RO water since here in Mexico City there's no way to know what's in the water lol

Really man! I became a fan.

Awesome video!! Do you care about or make any adjustments to hit targets around sulfate:chloride ratio or residual alkalinity?

The R O water song that came out of know where is killing me. You are F ing hilarious !

editing 10/10

Loved the video. Learnt a metric shit ton.. Dug the heavy metal. Fuck yeah!!! Your channel should have trillions of subscribers, if not gazillions. Stay metal and keep brewin!!! 🤘🏼😠🤘🏼 Cheers from India

RO water song got me. Subbed

Love both videos so far the only thing the first one had me missing was a whole wall around of everything done 😭 hopefully you got a future video coming soon for that!

Awesome content and I don’t even brew. Can’t wait for more!

Great video

It’s the pool guy!

I really like the "out of the blue" musical moments :)

Subbed af. Let's goooo!

NICE VIDEO

When is the next video? It has been months! Never felt so entertained watching brew vids. Keep it up plz! ❤️ This is the way

Yep, you win. You're better than me at everything.

Excellent video, music background and brew room setup! One question....how were you able to plumb the water line to the side of the pot filler (as opposed to behind the wall)? Are there pot fillers out there that allow for plumbing to the side or did you add something (like a T) and anchor to the wall? Any tips are appreciated as I am looking to do something similar. Thanks!!

The production quality on your videos is incredible. Any chance you’ll do an overview of your SS Brewtech 3V system? I have the same system arriving today!

I've always brewed with RO water, but it wasn't nearly as 80s-tastic as it was for you. I generally add a flat 1TBS of gypsum salt and calcium chloride for a 5 gal brew. Thanks for showing there is a higher level of accuracy to be achieved on that front. I'll certainly check out brewfather.

great video! I'm looking to add this RO system to my home brewery. Are you still seeing good results on this unit? any future videos coming out?

golden content

Loving the 90's skater video aesthetic.

Hair metal and home brews. Subscribed

Saw Brian's IG post. Sub'd. Good job buddy!

Great content, would love to do something similar myself

Where did you get the bucket for the reservoir water? Sounds dumb but I've looked all over for a food grade bucket that size.

This will blow up!!!