Scottish Export | Distributing CO2 in a Keezer

[@filop2011]

I start brewing 25 years ago and I stopped when I moved to US. I recently re-started and all your videos are inspiring and of outstanding quality. Thanks and keep going!

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Thank you. Happy brewing!

[@Scootenfruity]

Gotta say, I love your videos. They just motivate me everytime they pop up in my suggestions!

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Thank you!

[@KegLand]

To work Martin. Thanks for the video and giving our inline mini regulators a go. Let us know if you need anything else. I should say we have a small upgrade you can get soon which is a digital gauge for this mini regulator. The digital gauges are also much more accurate and good if it's a bit dark in the keezer.

[@TheMegafrancis]

I wait impatiently for your video every weeks. Great job once again Martin ! Cheers

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Cheers 🍻

[@misperry]

Just going to say you should have way more subscribers. Great video production, lighting, B-roll, and audio. Keep making the great vids!

[@luisalbertomendietac3546]

Weekly dose of Homebrew Awesomeness! Great content and what an amazing looking keezer set-up.... cheers!!! I have put my homebrewing on hold due to my newborn arrival but I hope these videos will help me anytime soon once I get back at it!!

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Thanks. And congrats!

[@shanej2429]

These videos are giving me inspiration to try other styles I normally wouldn't consider, especially the tasting at the end, Lauren's my favourite taste tester, her reaction to the marzen beer made me brew it haha.

[@jcinsaniac]

Excellent video - I am waiting for some of those kegland secondaries...the best way I've found to test pressure is to put 30 psi on the lines and turn it off. Come back in an hour and see if the secondaries have gone to zero. This way, if you have a leak, you lose very little gas while you look for leaks. Also, a few drops of dishwashing soap in a bottle of water sprayed will blow bubbles big enough to see - unlike Star San...Cheers!

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Good tips. So far no leaks.

[@jasoncascio4218]

All of your videos are great! I'm about to start building my first keezer. Can you tell me what parts you used to connect the tubing through the collar (the parts at 2:22 in the video)?

[@JohnnyReverse]

Where can I find the regulators? Kegland said more beer would carry them but I haven't been able to track them down

[@jamesj8965]

Nicely done! Its cool to see the mods you do to your system. Theres always ways to tweak and improve. I get to learn more about the hobby rather than just watch beer getting brewed.

[@ShortCircuitedBrewers]

You need a small wet-dry vac for that keezer, and some desiccant dehumidifiers. Nice and tidy regulator setup! Cheers Martin!!👍🍻

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

You mean something more high tech than the trusted sponge? 😂

[@ShortCircuitedBrewers]

@@TheHomebrewChallenge haha... Retire it along with Spongebob!!

[@Jfaram064]

I'm late to the party here but wow! what a great channel and challenge. I'm defiantly inspired to move out of my brewing comfort zone and some of the advise/experience along the way is invaluable. Half batches, yeast washing and keeping a slant are some I'm going to adopt pretty much instantly. Amazing and please keep it up! I'm watching avidly. Jamie Faram UK Newcastle Upon Tyne

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Thanks Jamie!

[@A2an]

Is there a one direction valve in this Kegland thing. I would like to taste that beer 👍

[@techresq90]

Now that you have had a few weeks with the regulators what do you think of them... looking to redo my entire system

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

So far so good. I do like how compact they are compared to my previous setup.

[@techresq90]

@@TheHomebrewChallenge thank you for your input

[@hoppyindianbrewery9138]

great video as always. i love the Kegland products.

[@SaMo9408]

Hi Martin, how did you carbonate post fermintation?

[@Stuve715]

Just be careful with those push-fit conectors. I set up a similar network but without the regulators, so all 4 kegs at the same pressure. This was not in my keeezer but in a conditioning/carbonation fridge, idea being that after checking for leaks I could set and forget it for a couple of weeks. I used the exact same grey T connectors. Presumably because of the cold temperature, at some point every single retaining collar on every one of the T connectors split, so no compression on the internal O-rings and I lost all the gas in the cylinder. Fortunately it was only a sodastream cylinder not my main one.

[@oginme716]

I love your videos and descriptions of the styles. Your tips added in round out the presentation nicely. I am a bit disappointed that you no longer list the recipe ingredients, but instead link the recipe to a site which does not actually carry or list the recipe. It would really help with those following to have the written recipe and brew day targets to follow along without distraction.

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Will look into a better format.

[@BobbyJacques]

Another great video! When you mill your grains, for the Clawhammer system, do you find you have better efficiency if you double crush them or mill them very fine? I have the same system and noticed since using it my efficiency has gone down.

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Yeah. I do double crush based on Clawhammer’s recommendation and seem to get a consistent efficiency.

[@jakubvizek6270]

Now that you have almost perfect description of the recipe considering the numbers to be easy scalable, how about beer color both in SRM and EBC? Please for the brewers from continental Europe.

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

So many numbers to remember 😂

[@cmasailor]

I look forward to your uploads, and will be sad when the 99brews in 99weeks is over. Hopefully you'll resume regular videos, great content. Cheers

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Don’t worry - it’s another full year before that’s a concern 😀

[@darrenmanspile]

Love the videos! It's great seeing you progress through the styles. You might try an eva dry dehumidifier in the keezer to keep the condensation down. Ive had great luck using that in mine.

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Thanks. I do have one of these dehumidifiers but I keep forgetting to recharge it. Just sits in the keezer all wet for months :-)

[@JstnMoyer]

I'm enjoying these videos! It'd be great to see more in the tasting portion though. Have you considered going through each ingredient and noting what you might be perceiving from them in the aroma and taste? Anything to bring more descriptors to the tasting portion would be great!

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

I always worry these segments already border on being too long. But yeah I like the suggestion of breaking down the composite parts.

[@davidbeiler6364]

ive thought about using those connectors since they look really solid, have you noticed any leaks?

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

No leaks so far.

[@davidbeiler6364]

@@TheHomebrewChallenge where do you get the regulators? i am in the US

[@richbradley2164]

Loving this series! You think you could mount those regulators through the front of the wooden collar to control from the outside? I was in Japan last year, they have so many craft beer places and even in the tiny marketplace ones they often have the regulator for each tap next to the tap itself!

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

That’d be cool. Let the user pick the serving pressure.

[@gregmorris2022]

I’ve been anxiously waiting for this vid as I’ve had this beer on tap for a couple weeks. Mine is about 5.6% and has a small amount of peet smoked malt.

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Oh wow. How did the smoked malt work out?

[@gregmorris2022]

The amount of smoked malt was very small. The beer has just a hint of flavor from it. I personally like beers with smoked malt, so if I make this again I’d likely add more.

[@CarlMar2111]

Hey Martin, curious to know how those regulators are working for you now a few months in. Can you give us an update?

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

They’ve been really good. I love having more space in the chest freezer now.

[@Bigpete9000]

Did you use the 4mm or the 5mm eva for your gas lines ?

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

5mm.

[@zurdo6973]

I was waiting for a Scooby Doo overhead camera shot! hehe Great content. Cheers!

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Scooby will be making a full appearance soon 😀

[@idealhomebrewing657]

Hopefully I can have a nice setup like you someday. I’m about to start my first brew tomorrow! Just did an unboxing of a Mr. Beer kit that I’ll upload in a few days!

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Good luck! I started on Mr Beer too.

[@Jfaram064]

Also be interesting when you start getting into the sours!

[@davidbeiler6364]

gross!

[@davidbeiler6364]

so i bought these, but my regulators dont really move if i try to move my dial up and down...

[@davidbeiler6364]

so you must drink a lot of beer if your brewing every week... you are drinking at least a gallon of beer a week?

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Giving away as much as I can.

[@pball98]

Martin I gotta know, are you getting sick of doing brew days yet?

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Haha not yet. Keep mixing up techniques and gear to keep things interesting.

[@pball98]

The Homebrew Challenge you should be a spokesman for clawhammer! Is doing no sparge worth the loss in efficiency?

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Yeah. Anything that makes the brew day a little shorter and easier without affecting quality is good with me! 😀

[@dmac3603]

Love it! From Glasgow myself. Have you ever thought about attempting a clone of the mighty Tennents lager? :P

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Haven’t done much with clones so far. Only one I’ve ever got close with is Guinness.

[@elmonte5lim]

How about brewing up some of that 'Belgian' Scotch Ale? Drink in pints, for the true taste of falling down water.

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Hmm... Belgian beeeer!

[@davidmercer4679]

I've never seen a yeast starter used in these videos.

[@paulbehrens5842]

Lol. The bottom of your keezer looks exactly like the bottom of my keg fridge. My wife hates it. If I leave it long enough, she cleans it out for me.

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

She’s welcome to come take a look at mine too 😂

[@dazpatreg]

Very nice

[@gunder3]

Do you have anything to do with homebrewacademy.com

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Yeah they post a blog summarizing each beer.

[@somebeersomedude8795]

Okay. Time to clean up your keezer my man.

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

😂

[@simoncarlsson6751]

As always a nice video, but I'm just letting you know that the greenscreen parts were a little off-putting. I know it's more work to do it the other way around but it pays off in my opinion.

[@TheHomebrewChallenge]

Green screen parts?

[@simoncarlsson6751]

@@TheHomebrewChallenge I apologize if I got it wrong but the two talking head shots around the 1st minute mark has you standing extremely clear in the foreground with the background slightly washed out. To me that looks like the classic greenscreen effect. I recognize it could be your intent to have some sort of Bokeh effect, if that is the case then those specific settings invokes the uncanny valley effect for me personally.

[@richard_lindsay]

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[@jesmarina]

REGULATORS!!