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Episode-676- Home Brewing – Tips, Tricks and Recipes

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Modern Survival| 21 Comments
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Today we go into some tips, tricks and recipes to complete our mini series on home brewing.  Yesterday we focused on the equipment, the basics of how to, the role of ingreedents and developing a basic understanding of brewing equipment and technology.

Today we get much deeper into various ingredients and adjuncts.  We discuss specialty malts, hone, fruit, beer styles and more.

Beer is at the same time remarkably simple and extremely complex, on one level it is simply a form or sugar (usually malted barley), water, hops and yeast.  On the other hand there are millions of ways that any individual batch of beer can be modified both intentionally and simply by circumstance.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Specialty Grains
    • Black Patent Malt
    • Chocolate Malt
    • Crystal Malt
    • Roasted Barley
    • Cara-Pils Malt
    • Honey Malt
  • More on Hops
    • Flavor is always evident, even when it’s not
    • Bitterness and the HBU scale
    • Styles are generally hop specific to a degree
  • Yeast
    • Dry Yeasts
    • Liquid Yeasts
    • Cultivation of Yeast
    • Reuse of Slurry
    • Yeast strains have a huge impact on beer flavor
  • Adjuncts
    • Honey
    • Fruit
    • Chili Peppers
    • Smoked Malt
    • Pumpkin
    • Brown Sugar – Molasses
    • Maple Syrup – Maple Sap
  • Some Special Recipes
    • Bandit Honey Ale
    • Jack’s Brown Mild
    • Conversion Pollinator Triple
    • Copperhead Barley Wine
    • Raspberry Stout (liquid sex in a bottle)
    • Blackberry Porter

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Episode-675- Building the Home Brewers Kit and Understanding Beer

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Modern Survival| 29 Comments
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I haven’t gone into home brewing for a long time and thought I might do a couple shows on it this week.  Today we start out not so much with how to brew (though we will cover it a bit) but the “hard items” you need to brew great beer at home.

Then tomorrow in part two we will go into tips and tricks for better brewing, some recipes I have developed and discovered over the years and more.

My hope is that more of the audience will take the time and effort to develop brewing and vinting as self sufficiency skill sets.

History has show that beer and wine are both usable as currency and to quote one of the father of our country, Benjamin Franklin, “beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Basic Beer Knowledge
    • Mash, Partial Mash and Extract
    • What is the purpose of hops anyway
    • Ale vs. Lager
    • No you won’t go blind
    • Yep totally legal
    • No it doesn’t take forever
    • The goal is not more alcohol
    • It does save money, not over swill though
  • The Basic Home Brewers Kit (must haves)
    • The “kettle”
    • Fermenters (glass vs. plastic)
    • Overflow hose and plug
    • Airlocks
    • Racking Tube
    • Siphon Tubing
    • Filling Wand
    • Bottling Bucket
    • Capper and Caps
    • Sanitizer
    • Grain/Hop Bags – Muslin vs. Nylon
    • Bottle & Carboy Brushes
    • Stirring Spoon
    • Stove
    • Charlie’s Books
  • Completing the Kit (nice to haves)
    • Hydrometer
    • Floating Thermometer
    • Wort Chillers
    • Propane Cooker
    • Jet Washer
    • Bottle Rinser
    • Bottle Tree
  • The Basic Mash Extract Brewing Process
    • Clean, clean and clean
    • Add specialty grains (if called for)
    • Start heating up your water
    • Remove specialty grains prior boil
    • Add in extract and turn down/off heat, stir heavily
    • Now add bittering hops
    • Near end add flavor and or aroma hops
    • Chill wort
    • Rack to fermenter
    • Pitch Yeast
    • Ferment
    • Rack to secondary
    • Bottle
    • Drink

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Episode-284- 20 Simple Steps to More Independence

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Modern Survival| 20 Comments
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I am broadcasting from home today (very early by the way) because I have to go out on a location to do some film work and won’t have the option to upload the show from my office.  I didn’t want to leave you with out a Friday show so I knocked one out at the house before I left.

Today’s show is all about ways you can start to become more independent.  My challenge to you is to pick one or a few of them to do right away.

Tune in today as I discuss…

  • Buying an ounce of silver a month
  • Build a compost bin or a worm farm
  • Plant a few permanent producers
  • Put together a 7 gallon tub of storable foods
  • Find out what committees your congressmen is on and call them about something not in the news
  • Learn to identify 6 edible wild plants in your area, try cultivating 1 or 2 of them
  • Learn to make wine or mead
  • Learn to make bread
  • Learn to make biltong
  • Learn to make one new meal a month from storable and/or fresh items
  • Learn to grind and use ground wheat
  • Take a good quality firearms training class
  • Learn to reload ammunition and cast bullets from lead stock up some components
  • Build a simple green house
  • Build or buy a solar oven
  • Gain basic construction skills (volunteer if you have to)
  • Start a blog or write a book
  • Take a 15 minute or longer walk alone daily
  • Create your vision

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