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Brewing Unique Beers (Without Hops) with Earthbound Beer

Craft Beer & Brewing Course

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.

6 chapters · 25 lessons · 55m

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

Your instructor

Stuart Keating

Stuart Keating

Cofounder and head brewer of Earthbound Beer in St. Louis, Missouri

Stuart Keating opened Earthbound Beer in 2014 to have fun and make beer. The brewery expanded recently to a 150 year old brewery building that they rehabbed by hand (including excavating lagering cellars) to have more fun and make more beer.

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