Open Fermenting A Weissbier... IN THE BATHTUB!

Open fermentation involves fermenting beer in an unsealed vessel where the top is exposed to the environment. And given its wide surface area, I figured my bathtub would make for a great fermentation vessel. So, I’m brewing a German Hefeweizen (aka Weissbier), pouring it into my tub, and watching the magic of fermentation unfold. Then, without telling him how it was brewed, I’m going to serve the beer to my poor, unsuspecting father. And to talk me through this, I have the help of the man who literally wrote the book on How To Brew, John Palmer.
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Epiphany Craft Malt: www.epiphanyma...
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Imperial Yeast: imperialyeast.com/
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Clawhammer Supply 240v eBIAB System: www.clawhammer...
Bathtub
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[@yanngreen]

Ok we need the follow-up video of your dad reacting to 4 year old beers!

[@Professor__S]

This guy has been watching too many documentaries on the prohibition era when brewers used bathtubs to brew their beer🛀🍻

[@TheBruSho]

You literally took the idea people have about home brewers "making beer in a bathtub" and brought it to life. Not sure if I should be impressed or worried you're perpetuating a stereotype 😂excellent video Martin!

[@mr.d578]

Is it ok to put the water salts on top of the mash? Says the guy planning on fermenting the resulting wort in his bath tub...

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

I know this is a few weeks old but I've been dying to watch this episode ever since I saw the thumbnail! This is easily some of the most entertaining homebrew content I've watched in some time. Dedication is switching out your bathroom lighting for the purpose of good lighting! You sir are a legend!

[@TheBrulosophyShow]

LOL thanks! The true dedication was spending a week working in the office next to the bathroom while breathing in the aromas of fermentation.

[@b20schill]

The end was so sweet.

[@wedomusic9451]

Awesome father son moment!

[@viktorstensson7075]

How familiar and genuine! Awesome video, I love the end with your father!

[@omarpadilla4739]

This really deserves a side by side test against closed fermentation.

[@rate4ever]

My wife's not going to like hearing this, but I'm occupying the tub after this video! Looking forward to seeing the next video called "Prison Style Beer", where it's fermented in the toilet tank 😅

[@grahamhawes7089]

This is absolutely unhinged, I love it. I used to put my fermenters in the bath tub and joked about “bathtub booze”, but you did it for real.

[@westcoastbestcoast7683]

Your wife is extremely understanding!

[@dfriendperc]

Martin is crazy entertaining! I love this show! This experiment is absolutely hilarious- and it worked out ok!

[@HOMEBREW4LIFE]

Good stuff my dudes!

[@jcinsaniac]

I love this, and you are so blessed to still have your father. He's a very good sport, and a wonderfully willing guinea pig. Thanks for the share and the exbeeriment. Cheers!

[@MrPAWorthington]

Martin you are amazing. I frickin love you, dawg.

[@brewingbadTN]

Great save giving him his favorite beers after you shammed him into drinking bathtub beer 😂

[@rafaelpestano7436]

We need a split batch between the bathtub and the bath sink😅 cheers Martin!

[@SeanEidge]

"Liked" this even before I got to the part where you start brewing. I absolutely love your experiments, and this one is obviously outrageous. Now, time to watch the rest of the video!

[@bobbob-ze9zo]

Like # 455 - I love this great idea. I would like to see a wild yeast open fermentation.

[@gungho8180]

Mr. Palmer's already high level of respect just got higher hearing him correctly "Kräusen."

[@benvanos5259]

I have found a SS washer on the end of the floating dip tube on the tube side helps keep it submerged.

[@1evansg]

The end was brilliant, I left my family and moved to Australia and this got me in the feels.

[@1983markL]

One of, if your best video yet!! Awesome... Thank you... Hope your dad enjoyed the beer

[@gustag]

loved the video!

[@FermentationAdventures]

A lot of faith in how clean you can get the tub! Cheers!

[@RedGreen1]

I'm amazed that Martin got this far in his brewing career without owning an auto siphon...

[@BrewabitRick]

Great experiment no idea what goes on in your head but brilliant. My local brewery Batemans still do open fermentation. Lovely to see your Dad brilliant cheers 👍🍻

[@01ai01]

Well done on the taste test! 😂

[@wedomusic9451]

A few things about this video: 1. You make great videos, keep it up! You're dedication to experimentation and high quality content is amazing. 2. Both of my great-grandfathers were homebrewers starting in the early 1900s. This reminds me of one of them telling me this is how people without any equipment would make their brews. 3. Love the idea of open fermentation, I am sipping an open fermented ale in Belgium as I type! My only concern is, the LOCATION of the open fermentation. Next to the toilet. In arguably the most disgusting room of the house. Lots of chance for nasty bacteria to get in. Maybe next time open ferment in the kitchen! Way better bugs hanging around there. I would be curious to see a sensory panel on the same brewed batch open fermented in two different parts of your house! Keep ip the great vids. Cheers!

[@Marshall_Brulosophy]

> I would be curious to see a sensory panel on the same brewed batch open fermented in two different parts of your house! Oh, hell yes!

[@jeremiahsmith7973]

Your poor dad, what a sport! I’m surprised that you did not pickup other less desirable flavors in your bathroom.

[@SchwarbageTruck]

Ah yes, Badenweizen

[@rivrivrivera2916]

Oh your poor Dad !!! Martin !!!

[@rivrivrivera2916]

Well at least there was sunshine at the end of the video !!! All your hard work in bottles , how cool is that . Right on !!!

[@dougdietrich1496]

Not gonna lie, i threw a little in my mouth when you guys took your first taste........

[@alagill]

I thought at "One more thing" you were gonna say I leave the camera set up going after the parents arrived 🤢 😂

[@ElementaryBrewingCo]

So were any of the beers you gave your dad still good? 😂 great video!!!!

[@BohumirZamecnik]

Nice. I've kind of damaged the surface our our bathtub with startsan, vineger and some water stone cleaner. The stains were not new waterstone but the glossy surface being etched by the acids. 🤯 So be careful about the bath material.

[@chadmahlen7520]

What is that fancy device you use in your videos for taking gravity? I've broken so many hydrometers I've just about given up and even taking the gravity. ha

[@TheAlchemistsBrewery]

that was lovely

[@srjmpls]

Enjoyed the video, but was hoping for a bit more analysis of the finished product... Did you think it was BETTER than when you brewed it closed fermentation? It would be quite wonderful if you could triangle test some of these beers, being that it's Brulosophy and all.... I'm left knowing that you CAN brew beer in the tub, but I don't have compelling evidence WHY I would want to do open fermentation, tub or not...

[@ryanbaileyworshipleading579]

yes, follow up tasting the 4 year old beers!

[@hanskurz2055]

you should brew a lambic beer in the bathtub. Woud be great.

[@BillBrews]

Just watching this episode today. Did your dad try the 4 year old beers? I was at my dads the other day and he had 2 bottles of the first beer I ever brewed. they were about 2 years and 3 months old. we opened them and they tasted fine.

[@joelzemaitis1147]

I like how you care about water salts on this one

[@kinggorf]

One of the most annoying questions non homebrewers ask me is "So do you like brew your beer in the bathtub?" Now you've given thier question some validity! Curse you! 😂😂😂😂😂🍻🛀

[@Tense]

PLEASE tell me the toilet was not used during this process. :D

[@hetspook666]

I understand it wasn't intended to be a ripening beer... Anyway my experience is do not use a swing-top bottle. All the bottles I tried lost there carbonation after 5 years.

[@T_Mo271]

Next to try this open fermentation using only naturally-occuring yeast, from the cave in your backyard.

[@afhostie]

Here's an idea for a brew challenge, can I substitute table sugar for Belgian candy sugar

[@AlbeeSoaring]

Nothing wrong with a little faecal beer with family.. lol

[@troykase9472]

Yep. That's kind of gross. However, Glad that it turned out well.

[@ad.ke.7224]

You could have used the regular dip tube as well, because the name Hefeweizen implies that the beer should contain the yeast, which is at the bottom of the keg. Large rotating tanks are used at Oktoberfest to ensure the beer and yeast are evenly mixed.

[@ephemerallyfe]

That's true, but a prematurely packaged beer will contain proteinaceous trub as well, which is what he wanted to avoid clogging the diptube and affecting the flavor too strongly.

[@ad.ke.7224]

@@ephemerallyfe In the case of Hefeweizen, I wouldn't worry too much about that.

[@hmmy92]

I did the same in my toilet. Perfect

[@MrFreschbr]

My mother would tell me that her father, my grandfather, used to make beer in the bathtub. In the times of prohibition.

[@anthonymurphy6649]

Could you start including European metrics into your videos?

[@HrafnirKrumr]

Ok, you Brits sure know how to treat your parents!

[@actiasluna338]

Maybe I need to talk to my wife about not using the bathtub for 3 days :)

[@hetspook666]

Why was that starter so dark?

[@rayfuller8517]

Why?

[@indispose]

Hi Martin, thanks for the video just wondering what type of water filtration system do you use at the moment?

[@pdubb9754]

Ok. Maybe I will try to clean my bathtub with PBW. That seems like an excellent idea. But no way will I brew in it.

[@janhdebuhr]

So my question is does it differ from closed fermentation? Which one makes a better German wheat beer? Closed or open top fermentation?

[@gregmorris2022]

Soooooo when are you fermenting in the toilet?

[@mkeysou812]

So how did you rate the beer? Any off flavours??

[@JP..]

Isn’t thrush a yeast infection? Hmmmm… Whitelabs are you watching…? Could be the new Kveik🤢

[@Unsub-Me-Now]

Gotta let us know if those beers were still good!

[@paultidsy4019]

😳

[@Eagle1846ytown]

I hope nobody used the bathroom while it was fermenting 😂

[@Marshall_Brulosophy]

"Terroir" takes on a whole new meaning.

[@GentleGiantFan]

"Try some of this fecalweizen I brewed up recently." I think I'd have to pass personally. Interesting experiment none the less.

[@plwadodveeefdv]

@@GentleGiantFan yeah I think I'd have to starsan the whole bathroom and everything in it to feel comfortable with this one

[@ROFLitsJobe]

Guhhhh, idk man

[@cameronfloyd2160]

I hope you didn't use the toilet while it was brewing 😅

[@paulbehrens5842]

Looked like you washed a very dirty dog in that bath after you siphoned the wort out.

[@russellspeight5175]

Its a Feet Beer.

[@mcdonald8240]

Hope you got all the hair out of there!

[@elsasswow]

4:42 You don't rinse the sanitizer before putting in the wort ???

[@dopstjom701]

Never fear the foam

[@HeavyMetalWarriorHUN]

You don't have to, and you shouldn't!

[@SteveGroller]

Looks like it's just the leftover foam after draining the sanitizer. With Star-San, the foam is perfectly fine to come into contact with wort.

[@wedomusic9451]

StarSan is a no-rinse sanatizer!

[@ephemerallyfe]

That would defeat the purpose of a no-rinse sanitizer like StarSan.

[@Aleph_Null_Audio]

Sorry, but the bathtub is reserved for making gin!

[@curtpick628]

Ok, the thumb tells me you're cruel. Beer after you've sat in it? Ewwwwww😅

[@davidjennings1256]

I think the ‘water’ is too clear to be beer…the things you do for a thumbnail!

[@curtpick628]

@@davidjennings1256 😂

[@kg3769]

sooo gross.. Two thumbs down. way down.

[@NWsmallbatchBrewing]

Nope. I would not drink that.....some random body hair makes it in ....someone uses the toilet ...nope

[@gregw988]

Wait till you find out where potatoes come from 😉