This is an instructional video on how to make tasty beer using the Refinery, Sharper Image, or any other branded all-grain, one gallon, beer kits. This video takes you from inventorying the kit to fermentation. Part two will cover fermentation through bottling and tasting. Congratulations on your beer kit! Let’s go make some beer!
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This week I take a look at some of the key process factors when lautering and sparging your all grain beer. Last week in part one, I discussed equipment design and how a filter bed forms around grain husks and creates channels that the wort flows through. I explained why a poorly designed lauter tun […] 
This week I take a look at the process of lautering or sparging your all grain beer. What appears to be a simple process actually has some interesting complexities to it. Lautering Lautering would appear to be one of the simplest steps in all grain brewing. Hot water is run through the grain bed to […] This week I take a closer look at the mashing process and what is actually going on when we mash malted barley and then sparge it to produce wort during the brewing process. The Purpose of Mashing Mashing is, in its most simple form, a process that breaks longer carbohydrate molecule chains into simpler sugars […] 
This week I cover some of the changes you need to make to brew a high gravity beer using BeerSmith software. High gravity beers (generally over 1.060 or so) do require some minor changes to your recipe and equipment profile as well as some process changes for brewing. High Gravity Brewing Considerations I’ve written a […] 
This week I show you how to do an iodine test to see if your mash has completed and the starches in the mash have been fully converted to sugars. The Iodine Test for Mash Completion How does an all grain brewer know when the mash is complete? It turns out there is a very […] 
This week I take a look at how to incorporate separately steeped dark grains with BeerSmith, a technique often used to minimize burnt, harsh roast grain flavors in the finished beer. Steeping/Sparging vs Mashing Dark Grains As I covered in this original article on the topic, all grain brewers can be well served by separately […] First-time all-grain brewing with my DIY brewstand. An Amarillo-hopped pale al kit from Midwest Brewing supplies and a little help from an experienced brewer friend, Gary.
This week I’m going to cover the two major methods (in two parts) used to create sour beers at a home brew level. While sour beer brewing is considered a more advanced brewing technique, it is possible for even a beginning homebrewer to create great sour beers using these methods. Sour Beer Basics Sour beers […] In this video I brew an extract beer using cheap ingredients to find out if it’s drinkable and if it’s worth brewing. Extract beer ingredients are generally more expensive than all grain beer ingredients but the process is much quicker and easier which is the attraction of brewing with extracts. If you don’t have 6
BBA T-SHIRTS ARE FOR SALE: http://www.betterbeerauthority.com/p/better-beer-authority-t-shirts_11.html CORRECTION: I mispronounced “wort”. It rhymes with “dirt”. And, “tun” rhymes with “done”. Learning how to brew beer using all-grain homebrewing methods. Kyle Klaibur, aka hophedbrewhaus, teaches me how. http://www.youtube.com/user/hophedbrewhaus Transcript: “Hi. I’m James Knott and this is your Better Beer Authority. Recently, I’ve been learning how to homebrew.
In this video I show how to mash grain the first step in brewing your own beer as a all grain brewer
Some of the most frequent questions I receive on BeerSmith software are about how to properly set up and dial in your equipment profile. This is an important first step as the equipment you are using drives all of the critical recipe estimates like color, bitterness and original gravity. I’ve composed many articles and videos […] 
This week I present the mash temperature calculations in BeerSmith and how you can adjust your equipment profile and mash profile to hit your mash temperature the first time. Mash Steps and Profiles To understand the mash profile system in BeerSmith, lets start with the mash profiles themselves. You can edit and create mash profiles […] 
With the growing popularity of small tabletop all-grain brewing systems I decided to take a look this week at how to set up and use these systems in BeerSmith. Tabletop All-in-one Brewing Systems There has been an explosion in the popularity of small all-in-one all grain electric brewing systems. These include systems like the DigiMash, […] As all-grain homebrewers, we have two options for rinsing mashed grains to collect wort in our kettle: fly sparging and batch sparging. Neither is difficult and both have their own unique advantage benefits. NB head development brewer Brad Segall demonstrates both methods. Learn all about mashing, sparging, and the complete all-grain homebrew process in the