Five Ways to Make Your Brew Day Easier

[@gardencity3558]

Pretty new to home brew started June 2021, do malt kits, and swear Spiedel fermenters. Well designed, easy to use clean, very durable. Definitely my best purchase.

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

Nice, I might try one some day. I've been doing a bit bigger batches and they seem reasonable for the size. Cheers!

[@pmhartel]

I didn't even know those cement mixing trays were a thing. I'm totally going to pick up a couple. I've struggled with how to catch drops and dribbles when disconnecting lines from my pump and those will work great. My most helpful item on brew day is my refractometer. It allows me to check gravity without needing to wait for a large sample to cool down to test with my hydrometer.

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

I randomly saw them at home Depot a few months back and they are great! Cheers!

[@kevinrich5312]

I just bought a cement mixing tub yesterday for mixing cement. Now I have to go back and get another one for my brewery! Great tip!

[@TroubleBrewing]

I know for me the best thing I did was add quick disconnects to EVERYTHING. Cheers!

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

I really should get into those. The barbs work well but I've definitely had a few fails where the ceiling takes a bit of spray... Cheers!

[@BitterRealityBrewing]

I'll do my best to be here and on time (if that is possible)!

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

Awesome! No worries if not! Just figured I'd give some notice instead of just posting it as soon as I was finished.... Although I haven't watched it on KZbin yet, so hopefully no stupid errors (just smart ones)

[@BitterRealityBrewing]

@@PartyTimeBrewing I made it and was only 14 minutes late.

[@BitterRealityBrewing]

@@PartyTimeBrewing Great job, and love those containers, but they are a bit expensive. If I ever see a deal on them, I might buy like 5 or even 10 of them.

[@RobTruscott]

There is even a y adapter on the sink at OBB, and we have a large stack of the small containers 10 and 20 L (but probably dollar store ones) and are used for everything - grain, water adds, hops etc.

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

Containers Rule! Cheers!

[@MarianneDoe]

Thanks Tips!!! Good work💪🏻👊🏻 great video!! ❤️😎😊. I also like the Y splitter.... Let's get one more and some hose for the kitchen? 😋

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

Have to get some new faucets for that to work, but I'm down! Cheers!

[@White_Rose_Al]

Clean clean clean, literally the task of brewday 🤣

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

So much fun! Cheers!

[@brewingbadTN]

I swear you were about to throw a VW Beetle in that cement mixer pan but it got edited out. Cheers James 🍻

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

Love me a good bug! We used to have a bright orange beetle! Cheers!

[@jaggersbrewingco]

Clean all the things! Nice video sir!

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

It never stops! Cheers!

[@jaggersbrewingco]

@@PartyTimeBrewing Never, I've tired to enlist the help of the kiddos. They saw though my tricks...

[@will5430]

Yea PT!

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

Yeah Will! Cheers!

[@melkyriakou1555]

Hey party time, thanks for the video, I'm going to get myself a couple of those cement mixing tray thingies on the back of it. Also, what grains do you bulk store? I have a pale ale malt, pilsner malt, vienna, munich and caramalt. Thinking of maybe a light crystal as well. I like to brew all styles, different things all the time.

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

Awesome! The cement things are great. I do mostly pilsner, pale and Maris otter. I've made the mistake of buying a 55lb bag of biscuit which will take too long to get rid of and a Vienna, which I've had for a year with no use but should hopefully try soon. Light crystal would be great for a smaller bin. It's great to have a lot but some stuff gets neglected... Cheers!

[@wadeprue]

Great video! I've been looking at buying a mill as my next bit of kit. Location specific question, but where are you buying bulk grain in NS? Noble/BrewHQ does not do full bags and getting them from the bigger Canadian homebrew spots would be spendy on the shipping side.

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

Brew/Noble do bulk bags, but the shipping I'm assuming is too high for 55lb bags. I bought a 55lb bag of pale there yesterday for $63. Also, if you're in the Halifax area look into the brewnosers.org homebrew club, you'll get a discount at noble/brewhq for joining and they do bulk buys a few times a year for some pretty good deals. Cheers!

[@ElementaryBrewingCo]

Great tips you hoser 😂

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

If I wasn't Canadian I'd be so offended! But yep, too much hose...

[@perrymattes4285]

I have a question when I go to the boil phase should I boil pot top off or on. ?? I’ve always boiled on but I have heard that off flavours are released during this phase

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

I'd leave it off. Top off was a bit more important with more unmodified malts from back in the day, so you might be ok with it on, but your safest bet is to leave the top off to decrease the chance of DMS (dimethyl sulfide) which supposedly tastes like cabbage. There may be more reasons, but that's the main reason I do it.

[@perrymattes4285]

Thanks.

[@BitterRealityBrewing]

My favorite purchase was my brew paddle, so I could rub my bottom. (The bottom of my kettle is, of course, what I meant..maybe. 🤣)

[@PartyTimeBrewing]

Nice, I'm assuming a wooden one? I'm using stainless, easy to use, but definitely a bit cautious on scraping the bottom. Cheers!

[@BitterRealityBrewing]

@@PartyTimeBrewing Yes, Wood with cool hops cut into the paddle. I got it off of Etsy years ago, but the seller stopped. I was promoting another seller not long ago as he had really nice paddles, but I still prefer mine a great deal. It has slightly changed colors over the year but not by much. I might need to do a couple hundred dark brews to help darken it a bit more.