Ever want to ferment under pressure? Carboys can’t do it, and stainless steel vessels are expensive. Another option? PET (plastic) fermenters! Relatively cheap, they are capable of fermenting beer, cider, or wine under pressure just as well as stainless steel options.In this video, I review and compare two plastic pressure fermenters; the FermZilla All Rounder […]
A homemade version of Coors Banquet or Miller High Life beer? Possibly, but WAY better when made fresh at home. This video is about the American Standard Lager beer style; specifically the kind brewed with corn as an adjunct. Beer was pressure fermented to minimize off flavors, gelatin fined for clarity, kegged, carbonated, and ready […]
After brewing a ten gallon batch of Munich Dunkel on my Blichmann BrewEasy, it was split into two 5 gallon batches and pressure fermented separately with different yeast strains; a Wyeast Bavarian Lager 2206 in a FermZilla All Rounder and a Wyeast Munich Lager 2308 in a Spike Brewing Flex+.Now, it’s time for my informal […]
A deep dive follow up to my previous video about my “Quick Lager“. I go over the details on how I shortened the brewing process for a lager from months to just days using pressurized fermentation (using the Spike Brewing Flex+) at room temperature and gelatin to fine (clear) the beer. I also show my […]
I brewed a “quick lager” in a fraction of the time it takes to make a typical lager. I used the Spike Flex+ fermenter to ferment a lager under pressure at room temperature without the need for cold temperature control and “lagered” it by fining the finished beer with gelatin instead of spending weeks in […]