Can you Home Brew Beer from a GROCERY STORE??

Grape Nuts, the original processed breakfast cereal, is BY FAR my favourite.

Making this right now but without pumpkin mash and the cereal. Used more oats, honeysuckle honey, and brown sugar with cane sugar. Used the same greens with a hops filter and leftover Fleishman yeast. Can't wait to see how it comes out!

While using pumpkin, it tends to rise to the top of the carboy. Most everything else tends to sink to the bottom. Is that a problem with gases escaping? I notice your carboy empties from the bottom so the pumpkin shouldn't cause you any problems straining. But for me, pouring out from the top the pumpkin blocks the flow of the beer. Any suggestions? Thanks

If you had boiled a package of bread yeast then let it cool you could have used that as a yeast nutrient one pitching the yeast. And papaya skin works as a as a pectin enzyme. substitute

Dude, I love Grapenuts...don't be talking trash on Grapenuts! Great video thanks!

Not a beer, but a good supermarket brew is hard ginger ale. Sugar, ginger, limes, splenda (for backsweetening), yeast, and whatever yeast nutrients you can scrounge up.

Doesn't Sierra Nevada use a non brewing yeast to bottle condition? Also, you should make a new video using the sparkling hop water that is now sold in grocery stores. Downside is that its expensive, 2-3 dollars for a 12 oz can.

where did you get the square keg?

I did in Kuwait. I malted my own wheat and barley. They had hop tea, and I wrangled wild yeasts from fruit. And made mead as well. Cider was a breeze. I called it survival brewing.

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I did a similar challenge at the start of NZ's strict covid lockdown. To get around the lack of hops I went with a fruited kettle sour. Liquid malt extract from the nutritional aisle, probiotic Yakult drink from the dairy aisle, yeast harvested from a commercial beer known to contain WLP644, then topped off with a bunch of apricots and peaches at the end of fermentation.

What's wrong with you? Grape Nuts are amazing!!

You would thank would be easier to find things you need to make a good beer in huge store. When our ancestors found what they need with out in nature??

You could do a kettle sour using probiotic yogurt!

That is actually a great concept! You could literally build your own strain over generations doing larger and larger grape nut batches and a single 12 pack of harvested Sierra Nevada and as long as you preserve and brew on the trub you would have a working yeast strain in the apocalypse!

Down voted due to your irrational hatred of Grape Nuts. 🙂

Checked out when you grabbed the pumpkin.

Interesting challenge and their are several ways of going about this especially it you have two to three days to you could probably germinate a couple lbs of whole dried barley and roasted it in the oven. Boiled a couple corn cobs to make a stock, roasted the corn kernel to concentrate the sugars in the corn. Or buy a couple 16 oz bags of Goya white hominy corn. Some grocery stores do actually carry malted barley syrup. Grape nuts cereal was a good choice, plain shredded wheat or if you can find Wheetbix cereal might work to if you can find it. Probably only Wholefoods would carry whole einkorn berry grains. Which you can germinate and roast in the oven and give your beer a mild vanilla like flavor. If you have an herd garden grow myrica gale( also called bog-myrtle, sweet gale, sweet willow and Dutch myrtle or at the right conditions to grow your own hops.

Interesting video! Grocery stores in Australia have a homebrew section that sell brewing kits, extract kits, and sugars.

I do this time to time for funsies. Grocery store Graf is super super doable/easier than beer haha. Thanks for the content. Best channel ive stumbled on this year.

Two grocery store ingredients I would have chosen. Beano for the enzymes bread flour.

Cornflakes and Rice Krispies could also work for this application since both also contain malt

You could use grits, corn meal, dried corn, and stores have plenty of rice.

Made this last night. Gonna see if this science experiment takes me to the same place it took you. And not gonna lie, the smell of the wort with the pumpkin and the herbs wasn't a terrible smell to flood my kitchen with lol.

I kinda cheated and used a Nottingham Ale Yeast I had sitting in my fridge instead of bread yeast though.

Sorry man, I love Grape Nuts. And appropriately, my love for Grape Nuts came from my grandmother. The trick is to pour your milk in, then microwave for 90 seconds. It will warm and soften them. Then cover them with sugar. Perfection! hahaha

hello, i just subscribed to your channel the other day when i saw your sparkling wine video. i have only been making wine for about 4 months now and have made several batches. i started following one particular guy and have used only his recipes in every one of them. I have since seen others making wine that dont add all the other ingredients like Acid Blend, tannins, pectic enzymes, and campden tablets. is yeast nutrient all you add to your wines? I dont want to add anything that is unnecessary. love your channel by the way. thanks in advance, chris

Hey Trent! Just joined your channel, because it’s time I stopped lurking for all this time and begin supporting you and your amazing content. I have an ask for a video in the future: beer made with cactus water. Shiner has a beer line called TexHex. One beer is an IPA, the other is a double IPA, and a third is a hazy ipa. I just tried the double and it’s amazing. I was wondering if you’ve ever tried this and if you’d consider trying a beer made from cactus water in the future. It’s overall delicious and it seems like it would be something up your alley for the channel. Cheers!

I'm going to brew my own stuff by just mixing a bunch of cereal, syrup, bay leaves, sugar, and some other random spices. Oh well. Lets see how it goes

I've never heard of grape nuts. Really thought you were going to say raisin bran.

Honestly i think you could have gotten a better result by making something else. The bitters in beer are over rated, and it isnt hard to make a good tasting simple wheat/fruit brew. Ive made good brews with just wheat fruit, and a bit of sugar.

I honestly think most beer lovers have broken tastebuds, and a love for a disgusting tasting burp from bitters.

Heck just sugar water yeast and fresh ginger makes a decent ginger brew. The kind that tastes good and doesnt impart a raging hangover.

Brown sugar would have been my sugar go to. I've made a few beers with molasses too that turned out pretty good!

It seems like every big grocery chain around me carries coopers and dry malt extract... dextrose, sanitization elements, wine kits ect. No hops tho. In Alberta, Canada... there is no beer or wine in a grocery store. But anyone at any age can walk in and buy some coopers or a wine kit. On that level Canucks have it made... it might not be good beer tho. I would probably try a Italian grape ale if I was doing it from cereals. whole corriander slightly crushed, a couple juniper berries and some orange rind. The cereals of choice... LOTS of Wheetabix cereal (WHOLE WHEAT, BARLEY MALT EXTRACT, CANE SUGAR, SALT, IRON, NIACIN, THIAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE.) some oatmeal and the grape juice to bring up the abv would have to be concentrated or boiled down.
The reason I would choose wheetabix is I think the flavor would bring forth real beer notes. It literally tastes like a sweet but not too sweet wheat and barley mix.
Really, I know very little about brewing... but if I was going to do it... I would want to try and make something I would want to repeat.

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Hope you got 3 packs of that cheese cloth!
BUY 2 GET 1 FREE lol

As soon as you mentioned breakfast cereal, I knew which one you were going to pick. Loved it when I was a kid, but not so much, these days. Was super fun watching you bash this brew together!

Ummm...you can just buy regular dried barley from the soup section, and just sprout it yourself. 🤔

I homebrew but I never buy ingredients from a homebrew store, defeats the purpose of homebrewing to pay 1000% mark up for ingredients. Hops in kilos from Hop Merchants. Malted Barley from a Maltster in 50kg sacks or 28kg Extract Tubs. Yeast is easy to propagate from some beer brands, or the Internet can find you any yeast strain for a few bucks.

Hey it looks like your grocery store carries Bobs Red Mill grains, who i know for a fact sells grain barley by the bag. My grocery store has it and its a very normal new england grocery store chain. I also think you may have gotten better yield from the "grains" if you had boiled smaller bags. I think you ended up with a lot of stuff left in that huge bundle. I'd like to see you try this again knowing what you learned from this video.

Grocery store cider is way easier. Cider was the drink of the American frontier because they had apples, water, and yeast

Yay, I'm relevant! Very cool approach to the challenge:-)

You could maybe find some digestive enzyme supplements with amylase to help modify the starches. Also, sweet potatoes are full of amylase.

Basically pruno

Hops was introduced to beers because it acted as a preservative. Beers could be kept bottled for much longer periods of times compared to un-hopped beers. People actually had to acquire a taste for hops, as virtually every beer that came before would have been very sweet in comparison.

Interesting. In Canada you find barley at almost every store!

Thinking about making a beer from canned sweet corn and perhaps fresh carrots.. i like the rosemary idea.. and definitely some coriander.also maple syrup...never considered sage...thanks for your wonderful little video