Greetings and Salutations, My name is Mike Jewel, and I'm the creator of this video. Wow thanks for posting this here! I've been a silent stalker of this forum for about seven months, and now that my videos have received some attention here, I guess it's time I step out of the shadows and introduce myself.
I'd like to thank everyone for being kind with your comments. When I first started to get massive hits on the 'Mr. Beer Goes Horribly Wrong' a lot of the comments (especially the ones when it got posted on liveleak) weren't so nice. Mostly people calling me an idiot and questioning my sexuality. So again thank you all for being polite.
Just to confirm / answer some of the comments you guys have made;
Yes, I am totally hooked on home brewing. Since this first initial terrible experience back in May of last year I've made a good 14 more batches. And, as some of you have seen from watching my other videos I'm now making five gallon brews in plastic carboys and kegging them.
After my initial failure I immediately ordered a refill kit for Mr. Beer's west coast pale ale, and filmed myself making it from beginning to end, determined to get an acceptable result. I also read a few books and started making a five gallon batch of Coopers Australian Ale simultaneously. The Mr. Beer went into bottles and the Coopers went into a secondary carboy and conditioned while I made my Kegerator conversion. About a week or two before I kegged the Coopers Is when I brewed my first brew from dry extract and pellet hops.
I still use the Mr. Beer Kit. C'mon that thing was a six dollar investment
But nowadays I mostly ust use it to make small experimental brews or to use up leftover DME and hops from my larger batches. Early on I made their witty Monk witbeir and their seasonal Belgian Dubbel, from the prehopped LME refill kits they sell. I must admit that both were delicious, but brewing with prehopped extract has lost it's appeal to me at this point. As it's basically just reconstituting and fermenting beer that was brewed by someone else.
Most of my more current brews are extract with specialty grain or partial mash. I'd like to make the transition to all grain and am in the process of designing a mini mash ton. However for now, my major focus is on renovating and selling my house and moving in to a larger home with my fiancee. So most of my brewing projects are on hold for the moment until I get moved into my new house. BTW if anyone here lives in the Washington DC area and wants to buy a 3 bedroom 1 bathroom condo in Northern silver Spring I should be listed by the end of the month.
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