Brad Makes Beer | It's Alive | Bon Appétit

yeah man I'll drop the boot Hoopa drives the movement like I'm off from one of those uh those railroad things you know me and Vinnie we're heading to Mississippi oh stop you every time bottom down Vinnie and we're not waiting on nowhere huh say being stuck in the snow a rocket you know pump it up more I'd turn around and drive it forward [Music] I'm gonna need your focus anything of this Oh oh that felt good like a scratch you've been trying to get so we're here at my buddy Dan Suarez his house at the Suarez family brewery up here by Germantown hold on start over Dan where are we ah Livingston there's more into beer than just putting some grains and some water in something I mean everyone knows you know they just go to the store they buy the beer but there's a lot that goes into it and there's a lot of life involved all right I got one job grains in the bin hey just in case how do you turn this machine off I got you on the ammo guy in Saving Private Ryan you know you're never gonna run out but it has some sugar in it now but it also has starch in it and a starch yeah exactly but it's all that starch gets converted to sugar by the enzyme yes science which is exactly learn something every day Vinnie I got some German at me it shits in my blood oh yeah look at me look Jeremy little Dutch [Music] I can see that again so we just did those 18 bags of malted barley into the grinder and what why do we grind it almost every kernel gets split so then you're exposing the starch inside of the kernel it will be very cloudy and chunky and I'll recirculate it and then 45 minutes later it's like crystal clear yeah wort Vinnie WRAT year I did know man really it W all our team wore is that you like get on your finger wo wo RT hey why is he so important in beer making process without yeast it would just be like sugary hop T the yeast eats the sugar yes he introduces what is alcohol produces alcohol and co2 but it also kicks off tons of flavor ooh we're going to call this so breakfast the breakfast hooch no there's no alcohol now man it's just sugar it's just like oh pretty nice so Dan's pumping the finished wharf clarified shoot through the pipes into the cooking vessel that what do we call that damn handle yes yes boil kettle and then from there we're going to boil it add the hops what they do is they take fresh hops and they turn it into a powder and they pressurize it and make little pellets Dan and correct me if I'm wrong but this is just as good as using fresh cones yeah same thing right see it hitting the liquid you dan just got off the phone with the pig farmer he's gonna come over around 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and pick up this this spent grain pigs go nuts of this stuff har-har-har it feels good on your face forget the pigs send this rate to the spa oh oh by no means is that underrated alright Benny quit fooling around we got work to do yeah Dan's wearing glasses and gloves and even give me any protective gear but uh you know you know but your friends are we're gonna be miss Frances messing around Sani all day if you even get us on your skin for a second and your skin starts turning white and it'll burn oh really yeah and then forget if you get this in your eye it's like Jesus Christ I let it get that [ __ ] out of me hey Brad stand over here I'm going to wear gloves and glasses you can hug him he'll liquid in your eyeballs and what so this is where fermentation will take place yeah where we'll add our yeast from another conical and it will flash chill after we boil in here will flash chill through this heat exchanger into there and we'll add our yeast to and then hopefully by tomorrow morning it's a this is the flash chilly so cold water goes pump that way boiling work get pumped and then they exchange heat and then we return hot water into the hot water tank and by the time it gets the work gets here it's nice and cool yeah like touch to telling you got to taste all the ingredients FINA Oh bitter tiny not too bad I mean that's a nice consistency beautiful nice pale pancake batter creamy now I'm going to hook up the keg and we're gonna harvest hey could I have some of that yeast this one right here yeah you can take some I'm a steal a little yeast for back home back in the back in the in the BA Test Kitchen oh yeah good luck bread how'd that work out oh Jesus Christ nice flick there dance yeast is in here we know this we're gonna pipe it through this is our little side glass well here we go dance coming mmm right into the keg oh oh yeah nice thick yeast looks good right yeah it's going on alright we're going to take this keg over to the fermentation vessel where we're going to add to pitch the yeast into the beer and that's where all the fermentation happens all the life force begins to eat sugars create alcohol create all that nice depth of flavor that you'll get you get in beer and yeah you really can't do it without the yeast the word is filling the tank from the bottom and now we're pretty much good to add this whole can of yeast word not to be confused with wort as we're pumping the word and this is getting kind of mixed niche then desert as we're pushing it in science then you wouldn't understand so we got our fermentation vessel filling up with the yeast filling up with our completed wort that mixes up in there and then inside here is where all the fermentation starts happened and once all the fermentation is done the yeast settles the beer stays up top yeast is down here we'll pipe the beer into another vessel filled with just just the beer whatever yeast didn't settle in the first vessel will settle in the second that's where we'll carbonate it from there pipe it in the bottles and kegs and start drinking some beer I just came in here not knowing much about beer other than how to drink it and we figured you know working with Dan we did the grains we did we made the war word start over Vinnie we got the wort going it's like a goddamn you in there so pretty much what we own what I learned the most and what my favorite part about the beer making experience is how much life force is involved in it without the yeast there is no beer and without beer there's a lot of unhappy people Suarez family brewery really hitting home runs over here so thanks to them for having us and let's go drink some beer he's a Magic Man that's what it's gonna play out I'm pretty much dude straight down the center yeah that's like sausage oh that's a goddamn Simpsons episode I'll take a dump beer right there that look good that looks there you go sir [Music]

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Length: 9min 10sec (550 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 14 2017

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