I brew-U brew: small spaces, minimal gear, lotsa beer
What you'll learn
- brew 5 or 10 gallons of all-grain beer from inexpensive, DIY and multipurposed gear.
- learn how to keg, carbonate and dispense beer with one of the 6 kegging configurations covered.
- use online brewing software to input recipes and calculate water volumes and temperatures needed at various steps of the brewing process.
- build a mash tun or an equivalent (brew in a bag).
- observe and learn from 2 different condensed brew sessions from start to finish.
Requirements
- This course assumes you have already made, or at least understand the principles of, extract brewing and fermentation.
- This course assumes that you can perform rudimentary beer making tasks such as using a thermometer and hydrometer
- If you don't understand some all-grain beer brewing terms like mash, sparge, lauter, strike etc, a quick 30 minute study elsewhere on the Internet should bring you up to speed.
Description
Take a look in any home brewing catalogue and you'd likely feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of trinkets available for purchase. Doesn't that seem kind of strange given the fact that beer has a 7,000 year history?
I've brewed in barns, houses, 125sq/ft apartments, a commercial brewery and with electricity, propane and even over firewood. This course is the summation of my 12 years of brewing and experience. The longer I brew the more I keep coming back to simple, DIY brewing. Over this course, I will walk you through 3 different brewing rigs and their many potential variations. In addition, I will give you a tour of 6 different kegerator configurations and help you find an equipment build that fits your brewing needs without crushing your homebrew budget. Come with me on 2 actual step-by-step brews on 2 different systems: a 50 dollar brew-in-a-bag system and my super efficient 10 gallon/4.5 sq. ft vertical system.
This course includes videos, illustrations, PDFs and pictures and access to I brew-U brew's discussion group.
Who this course is for:
- This class is intended for anyone that loves beer.
- This course is aimed at the individual who wishes to move from extract to all-grain brewing without spending a small fortune on expensive and complicated gadgets.
- This course is intended for anyone who has ever said or thought, "I can't make all-grain beer because I don't have enough space in my home."
- This course is for brewers looking to simplify their setup through the calculated use of multipurpose tools.
- NOT for students starting from square 1.
Instructor
![Garrett Hohn](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 3.5 Instructor Rating
- 56 Reviews
- 556 Students
- 2 Courses
Twenty years ago, I started with a bag of dry malt extract and a bucket just like everyone else who has become involved in this wonderful craft. At that time, I was the only one I knew who homebrewed so any lessons I learned were self taught. I was absolutely hooked but my nomadic lifestyle as a soon-to-be educator brought me to places such as Portland, Maui, Korea as well as my off-grid base of Montana. In order to continue my passion for brewing, I had to adapt to my surroundings; small spaces, high temperatures, language barrier, ingredient unavailability and a lack of electricity/fuel, be damned, I found a way to brew. Being able to make and source my own equipment was the only way I could make beer when I first arrived in Korea. Simply put, Korea was a landscape barren of quality beer and homebrewing equipment and ingredients.
Along the way, I taught a friend to brew over Skype sessions and started a brew club at the Korean university where I teach. Teaching brewing to students whose first language isn't English really makes you focus on the important parts while eliminating all the clatter.
Over those years, I have become obsessed with making and serving beer as efficiently and as simply as possible. I have two homes (one in Korea, and one in the US) so this gives me a unique view on beer making and how to further hone its efficiency. Because I've helped numerous friends get started from the ground-up (the ex-pat community in Korea can feel like a bit of a revolving door), I've had countless opportunities to refine brewing rigs.
In the last 10 years that I've been a resident in Korea, the beer brewing community has grown leaps and bounds. As a large part of this community and founder of our local brewing club, I have had the pleasure of receiving several national 1st place awards for my home brews. As a humble tinkerer, it was a great honor to be recognized by my peers. While my methods and practices may be uniquely simple, they are proven to produce results.