I survived Y2K. When do I get my dough?

Dude, the saying goodbye montage at the end had me rolling 😂😂😂. Great video!

Dry yeast will outlive you and me in the freezer and I'm a 100% dry yeast guy these days. You might check your local grocery store for distilled water, mine carries it for about $1/gal. You might also see if you can find someplace with a water dispenser for filling the 5-gallon plasic carboys. Those dispense R.O. water which is what a lot of commercial breweries use. They also have one of those machines in my local grocery, there's also drive up kiosk thing that dispenses ice and water that dispenses R.O. water into your plastic carboys. It's relatively cheap too. A good video. Cheers!

anytime a dark lager is on the menu I am getting one! glad to see you back up and brewing, keep the dark lager grain to glass vids coming!

As an Aussie, this was wild for me to hear an American guy say glad wrap! Love it.

I love no chill brewing. Easy going, go with the flow. I challenge you to try no boil!

haha, so much going on. the sadness at minute 7:00.... next level dude! you should get into writing movies!

Another entertaining video CH, love it! I've been do no chill for a couple of years now. An added bonus to no chill is you can pull a liter of wort from the boil kettle, chill it down, pitch your yeast and let the starter pull an "all nighter" while the wort is chillin.......keep up the good work

Love your creative editing and dry wit. I always learn a lot while laughing my ass off. Keep making these great videos!

Love dark lagers!!!! Dark lagers 4 Life!!! Cheers Braj and thanks for the shout out!!!

my first 2.5 yers into homebrewing - I never chilled - I was pitching tommorow morning. Every batch was ok

Alice from the Brady Bunch had a thing with Sam the butcher. The Beastie Boys even made that a lyric on "Paul's Boutique". Like "Sam the butcher giving Alice the meat!". Good vid!

CH! Dude, you are so close to 40K subs...I don't know if any of the other brewers on YT are near that. Ya, 5 mos for Liquid yeast is probably a bridge too far - I would have made a starter to check. This approach is why you have 40K subs...you brew for the little guy, no super premium gear, you make it fun, and you impart good knowledge while doing it...major kudos, Braj!

Urkel makes you a 28deg Dark Czech. 34/70 makes you a Schwarzbier. You win either way. :D

Y2K. Man that was a rough time. All 'puters quit workin'. Planes fell from skies. All money in the world was lost...wait. Dude I freakin' hate when I forget about Starsan being in my keg.

Lol seems like every brew day I make some dumb mistake. Glad I’m not the only one 😂

Your videos are the freggin best, I'm glad you are still making them.

Man, here is your sign, get your butt motivated! Cmon, join me... shooting for a black IPA

Digging the edit. I love the thought of your neighbors wondering what the hell your doing posing on your porch, especially in this type of weather ✊🏾✊🏾.

Great vlog very informative and funny 👍

What an emotional roller coaster. I’ll be honest, I’m Australian and I do the lazy man wort chill that consists of dumping hot wort into my fermenter and chucking it in the fridge until it’s at pitching temp. I’ve never had a batch go bad yet. One day I’ll save up the funds for a wort chiller.

Mom and Pop saw you coming a mile away 😂

I know these grain-to-glass videos are hard to make, but its great for people like me who barely understand to see the process 30 times with different recipes. I pick up a little knowledge each time.

Hail Schwarzbier! Glad you're appreciating the ways of the Köstritzer in the other end of the globe braj

Lol. Love it. Perfect brew days are rare

Braj....been no chilling for anything dark or hazy cause there's a tad of chill haze....its great man....beer comes out great!!! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

Aussie brewer here. I almost always no chill wort. Easiest way is to transfer hot, straight into a HDPE plastic cube. HDPE plastic can handle 100°c/212°f or more. Then it's pasteurised and ready when you are. I've left wort for months in the plastic cube before pitching into a fermenter and had no infections. Beer looked great CH. Cheers mate.

CH I'm glad you're back

Great vid!!! I tried the no boil method a couple times in a corny keg fermenter under pressure and it worked great. Dumped the wort after boil into a clean keg, purged it with co2, left it outside (during winter) and in the morning it was at around 86F. It was still a little hot but I had kveik so it was perfect. Then of course I went under pressure and it took around 3 days and I had great beer. 🍻

Lol, great video my dude. Now I'm inspired to brew a dark lager.

Awesome to see you back brewing again. My brother and I never chill our beer anymore after boil, we rack to SS fermenter and let cool overnight then pitch yeast next day. RDWHAHB!

Man oh Man, So nice to see you Brewing Again !!!!!!!!

Thanks for the video CH.. been using the distilled water for the last 3 or 4 beers. Getting it at Walmart for about $1.20 a gallon

Congrats on the 40k!

Man, I gotta have that...doing it for sure! Do IT!

Underrated KZfaq content creator. Keep up the good work big dog!

Great video braj. Cheers 🍺🍺

Love the fermentation station it's best brew store in Knoxville 👍

Great video ,thanks. I have been into raw ale for a long time. I honestly can not remember the last time I boiled my wort. I do a 1 hour mash and always hit 1050 sg. while mashing I make a hop tea in 2 liters of hot water using the same amount of hops as when boiling. It gets added at sparge. Cooling is faster due to no boil,and cleaning is so much easier. Gonna try no cooling on the next beer. Its plenty cold here in Holland so it should work. Next experiment is with a dry Irish stout with juniper added to the hop tea. Greetings..

Was really hoping for an MBC not really sure what to do with my beer now..

I always liked your videos and I learned a few tricks that helped me tremendously in my home brewing. I also use the no-chill method ( as you know in SOCAL water can be scarce) and is perfect if you ferment in corny kegs with spunding valves. Usually, the wort will cool down overnight inside and will temp in the high 70's mid80s Degrees F perfect pitch for kveik yeast. Reserve and chill some wort after brew day in the fridge and you can prep a starter for the following morning.

Knowing you are in Knoxville now, go hit Xul and grab a ORLOJ or NIGHTMAN COMETH at Albright Grove. Both Dark Czech Lagers and excellent. I live right down the road from Ferment Station and have been homebrewing for over 20 years at this point. Would love to xatch up with ya! Been watching the channel for a LOOOONG time! Some of the best Brew Tube content out there!

I need to brew a dark lager. Cheers Braj!

These edits! Love seeing you brewing again Braj!!! 👍🏻

I cut my boil hops by ~75% for no chill and it’s still pretty harsh. But, it saves a lot of cleaning and time.

I feel your pain on losing half of a batch. I lost an entire batch due to multiple compounded errors that I hopefully will never make again. The killer was leaving the blowoff valve dunked in sanitizer while cold crashing. Negative pressure drop caused all the sanitizer plus a bunch of air to suck back into the keg. Also lost a half batch due to a split evabarrier line ( got pinched in the fridge door and I didn't notice ). This one was bad because I had 5 gallons of beer spritzed all over the inside of my fridge and running into my garage, etc. Took hours to clean up, double sadness beer + time loss.

Long time no brew! I thought you were just getting old busting out the licorice allsorts and watching Matlock on a repeat loop. Good to see you back at it!

Seems like I need some dark lager in my life! Distilled water doesn't seem to be a thing in the UK unless you're using it to top up your car battery, so will have to make do with regular bottled water. Love the videos, keep up the good work mate. Cheers!

Tried two brews this way. First was just the same as always ( fermentation taste ) second time I had a fermentation stop at 2.1% abv. I think that if the wort has to stand too long while cooling the oxygen content can drop. Bought an aquarium air pump with lava stone. Aerated the wort for 5 minutes and 4 hours later its fermenting again. Next time I will aerate just before pitching the yeast.Hopefully problem solved. Still a great way to save water.

Dude, welcome to the midwest winter blahs- but seriously my opinion is best time to brew is in the winter

Great to see you brewing again CH! I too brew on a Clawhammer 120V system and love it. I’ve brewed your dark lager before-FIRE!

you can also move that big oring around until it seals. Just keep trying and spray some sudsy starsan on the openings as it pressures up. If you bought a used keg from a merchant of any sort they do test them before shipping. So its gotta seal. Also, there can be different methods for closing the lid that can cause "imperfect contact". Just ask the Matt Damon dude from Interstellar.

I was worried you were out of the brewing video business, so glad you are not. Thank you!

Awesome video! Entertaining as always, cheers!

There’s nothing that hits like a slump-buster batch. You have a couple batches that don’t work out, then you finally nail one.

Saúde, seu NO CHILL foi profissional do cervejeiro caseiro! Muito bom, também faço assim!

Buy a still and distil your own water between moonshine batches lol

CH, I'm so glad you did this, I was getting worried. Looks amazing and I'll definitely be trying that recipe. Won't be with a liquid yeast though as I struggle getting it reliably round my area. Much love.

Glad you got the itch to brew again. Entertaining as always!

I love this channel. Got some really good tips thanks!!

In the UK we have kerbside RO water dispensers run by a company called Spotless Water. They’re used by window cleaners and mobile car washers. I just grab 40l or so in a couple of Jerry cans a few days before I’m planning to brew, costs me less than £2. Also great for making up StarSan as it doesn’t go cloudy.

Glad to see you back with a new video, and inspired to brew more beers!! I love your stuff dude the day you stop would a sad day. Also, new intro is WILD I love it. Cheers!!!!!!

Hahaha the lotion shot when talking about the brewtubers 😂 Another hilarious and fun video! Glad to see you back up and brewing and now I am thirsty for a dark lager

Love the brewing videos! Great writing and editing, like usual. Dude you have skills. Glad you're back in the saddle. I've done several no-chill brew sessions, always when I only have time for the boil. Just leave it in the pot covered until the next day, then transfer to fermenter. Super clear wort too.

So happy to see these videos back braj! Missed ya and love the vid!

Lotion next to the couch?! My man's living dangerously 🤣

I just had my first dark lager a few weeks ago. I'm a fan. Good stuff.

That thumbnail friggin kills

Absolute top tier content

Awesome intro ! Cheers Braj 🍻🍻

Fuggin classic! I was rolling

Chrono trigger music was on point 👌

Diggin the vids, Papa-Georgio. A dark lager is the perfect midday snack. PROST.

Cheers to eating good cheers to drinking good. Subscribed

Glad I'm not the only one that makes dumb mistakes. Thanks for your honesty.

'Just for shits and giggles' Great Australian phrase. You're alright 😊

My life motto; focus on the beers that are here 🍻

I just brewed two raw ales... no boil, no chill, no problems... well I hope that's the case, they are still fermenting...

Great content 👌 I am watching you from the beginning and you have learn a lot, and it shows. Keep going....!

What a rollercoaster of emotions braaj!

Gotta love Ferment Station!!

This video is making me want to brew a dark lager for two reasons. 1. It looks delicious. 2. Wife doesn't drink anything dark so I can kill the keg to myself. Thanks Braj!

The maid from The Brady bunch was hooking up with the town butcher

Great video appreciate the work you put into them

Your editing is TOP NOTCH!!!

Hands down best brewing channel on the internet!!!

Funny seeing you out in the snow! Last brew I did I opened the windows in my brew room and left the mesh bag with the hops in the wort until it got down to 70f, from 210f. Took about 6 hours. I finally emptied the yeast out of my keg fermenters that I had been reusing for a year and a half, had about 2.5 gallons worth. If you're going to be using distilled water only why not get a water distiller? Or make a pressure cooker still "just for water"

I brewed a no boil beer a few years back. Mashed at 152 for an hour and pasteurized at 180 for 1.5 hours. It turned out great. Was sweeter than I wanted but was 5.75 ABV.

Inspired me to brew a dark lager for my next brew:) Looking forward to the next hb4 life video!

Nice video Braj!

Enjoyed the new content and glad the beer turned out well! Missing some MBC

Those 8 minutes felt like 2. Crackin' vid. Black ipa's are becoming massive this side of the pond.

I didn't realize how much I missed these videos until today. I finally feel like being again!

Damn dude that beer lookin good. And yo distilled, spring, and RO are all good options. I’d use spring water when you’re not adding salts 🤘🏼🍻

Cheers! I just brewed an IPA Sunday with espe kveik yeast that was dated August 12th but I made a starter. It was erupting out of the blow off tube in 12 hours. It krausened up in the starter so I knew I was good to go. Gotta get on that lager train

Braj would play a good guy on the couch in the next half baked movie 😂😂😂. Entertaining as always. Stay thirsty my Braj ™️.

If you don't want to waste water or time cooling there is another way. Do a partial volume boil and add ice. I tried it by Freezing water bottles then cutting the plastic and dropping the ice in. Reused plastic water bottles with same water i brew with. Kept adding till my volume was right.

been doing no chill for a year except I pour the hot wort into a closed plastic container , leave overnight (put it in the lounge overnight to warm the room!)

Most underrated channel on the Tube

Dark lagers and ales are my favorites. I've brewed many with Schwarzbeir being in my top 3. Cheers