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Brewing Unique Beers (Without Hops) with Earthbound Beer

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Brewing Unique Beers (Without Hops) with Earthbound Beer

Learn how to get evocative (often beery) flavors out of a range of unusual (often un-beery) ingredients.

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Earthbound Beer in St. Louis, Missouri, is a confidently different sort of brewery, specializing in beers with a wide range of herbs, spices, and other adjuncts, often used in place of hops. Stuart Keating, cofounder and head brewer, shares what he's learned from years of experience in getting evocative (often beery) flavors out of a variety of unusual (often un-beery) ingredients. 

In this video course, Keating shares his expertise and a raft of useful tips for using a variety of adjuncts and flavorings—many quite obscure. Among the topics covered: 

  • Adding tree branches or other ingredients to the mash water
  • Mash additions, such as salt, beets, or mahlab
  • Spices, chiles, extracts, and other boil additions, and when to add them
  • Testing ingredients at home using simple syrups
  • More details on special ingredients such as chicory, lavender, pecans, Thai basil, and yarrow


And much more, including two recipes. 

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Course contents

6 chapters, 25 lessons, 55m of video

Chapter 1

Welcome

  • About Earthbound Beer5:22
  • About This Course6:36

Chapter 2

Unique Water Additions

  • Mash Water Additions (Trees, Leaves, and More)6:08
  • Special Ingredient: Spruce Tips
  • Fort George Spruce Budd Ale Recipe

Chapter 3

Unique Mash Additions

  • Mash Additions (Salt, Beets, and More)3:31
  • Brewing with Salt, According to Fal Allen
  • Special Ingredient: Mahlab, with Stuart Keating of Earthbound

Chapter 4

Unique Boil Additions

  • Developing Recipes with Late Boil Additions19:25
  • Brewing with Tea, with Edmund’s Oast Brewing
  • Spices, According to the Oxford Companion to Beer
  • Spices and Their Uses in Beer (Chart from the Oxford Companion)
  • Gruit, According to the Oxford Companion to Beer
  • Water, Yeast, Malt, and Hot: Chile Beer 101

Chapter 5

Working with Unique Ingredients

  • Herbs, According to the Oxford Companion to Beer
  • Testing at Home with Simple Syrups0:37
  • Brewing with Chicory, Pecans, Lavender4:52
  • The Brewer's Garden: Flower Power
  • Brewing with Thai Basil4:56
  • The Brewer’s Garden: 10 Herbs to Grow for Beer
  • Brewing with a Ginger and Yarrow2:23
  • Special Ingredient: Ginger, with Rare Barrel

Chapter 6

Thank You

  • Recipe: Earthbound Cardamom Pepper Tea Blonde
  • Recipe: Earthbound Cozy Cowboy
  • Wrap Up0:54

What students say

5.0 from 1 review
  • Engaging, well presented. Nice to see the new 'ground' covered
    Wade Pelly