How to Build a DIY Beer Keezer

Posted in Homebrew on July 20, 2018

A couple weeks ago I posted this video to our sister YouTube channel, “How To Fix it Workshop“. I figured some of our Beer:Thirty friends would enjoy this one. Check it out as I show how to build a Beer Keezer out of a chest freezer.

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Harvesting Hops

Posted in Homebrew on August 24, 2016

Growing your own hops for home brewing is easy and fun. In this video we give a brief overview of where we grew our cascade hop vine, how we brought the vine down and how we harvested the flowers.

A rope was provided for the vine to grow upward. We strung a rope from a stake in the ground up through 2 eye hooks in the peak of the roof and back down to a second stake in the ground. There were originally 2 hop rhizomes, but the other variety (chinook) did not mature.

By mid August in our area (mid west US) our hop flowers had fully matured to the point that the tips of the flower leaves had turned yellowish brown and became almost papery.

We cut the rope from the peak of the house and from the stake and cut all of the small hop vines from the ground. We plucked all of the flowers from the vines and laid the hops on furnace filters to promote air flow while the hops are drying. The furnace filters were placed in a dark cool spot in the basement in order to dry for several days. After drying the hops can be added to an in process brew or froze for future use.

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Brewing our Christmas Beer – Feliz Navidad

Posted in Homebrew on November 8, 2015

An overview showing some clips during the brewing process of what will become our Christmas beer that we are calling Feliz Navidad. It’s a Chocolate Milk Stout that will have cayenne pepper for the heat on the back end of the drink.

Brewing, chilling the wort and adding to carboy to begin fermentation.