Keg & Barrel Home Brew Supply

In this entertaining introduction to extract home brewing, award-winning home brewer James Spencer leads you through the process in an easy-to-understand way. Fellow home brewer Steve Wilkes joins James as they brew a batch of amber ale on the stovetop.

You'll see an hour-long demonstration of making beer, starting at brewing and ending at bottling, covering every step in between. James and Steve will show you helpful tips to make your brewing successful and help you to avoid common pitfalls that can get in the way of making the best beer you’ve ever tasted. A handy chapter list will make it easy for you to revisit topics at a later time.

New! Now with a section on how to make a starter. Also, no region encoding!

Low-Tech Lagering and Decoction Mashing

Decoction Mashing and Lagering Made Basic.
Decoction mashing and lagering are advanced techniques that have been passed down through generations. It took old-style brewers many years to perfect these brewing methods, but you can learn them in just a few minutes with this DVD. In this video, James Spencer and Steve Wilkes, hosts of the Basic Brewing Video™ podcast, are your tour guides.

Steve takes you through decoction - boiling part of the mash to reach higher temperatures and add flavor character in step mashing. James leads the way in showing how to achieve lager fermentation in a low-tech way, even in the heat of summer. These techniques also can be used to maintain proper ale fermentation temperatures in hot climates.

This video is aimed at brewers who already know how to make a batch of beer using extract or all grain brewing techniques.

Low-Tech Lagering
In this DVD, we introduce you to the Low Tech Lagering System (LTLS), which will allow you to maintain consistent, controllable fermentation temperatures without the expense of purchasing a chest freezer.

Format: NTSC DVD
Video Length: approximately 30 minutes
No region encoding

This video takes you from milling the grains to collecting your wort. It is primarily designed to be used by those who already know how to brew using extracts, but new brewers will learn a lot, too.

The DVD uses a non-linear approach, enabling you to choose between infusion mashing or step mashing and then batch sparging or continuous sparging. Of course, you can use the chapter list to go back to any section you want to see again at any time. We cover: grain, equipment, water, mashing (infusion and step), vorlauf, lautering, and sparging (batch and continuous).

Format: NTSC DVD Video
Length: approximately 60 minutes
No region encoding

Introduction to Wine Kits

Making Wine with Kits – Simplified
Through the wide variety of wine kits available today, wine lovers can make world-class wines in their own homes and save money at the same time. Wine kits are convenient and easy to use, but if you’ve never made one, the process can be intimidating.

In this DVD, James Spencer and Steve Wilkes, hosts of the Basic Brewing and Basic Winemaking podcasts, take you through the wine kit steps from beginning to end, sharing tips along the way that they have learned over years of making wine, beer and mead at home. You’ll learn about equipment, cleaning and sanitization, fermentation, clarifying and stabilizing, and bottling.

Bonus Section: Wine for the Beer Guy
In a special section geared toward the beer lover and wine novice, James and Steve talk about ways to approach the task of learning about wine from the ground up.

Total run time: approximately one hour
No region encoding
NTSC