Sanitation and BrewDogs

[carhug]

So,

I've DVR'd a bunch of BrewDogs.

One major thing I wanted to ask is why we stress sanitation so much in our homebrew process, but why they do not in BrewDogs.

I'm sure they could be sanitizing off screen.

But there's an episode where they're in San Fran and they do open fermentation in a coolship on a roof for 3 days or something. Then later Martin puts his hat On top of the krausen.

And most episodes where they're touching the beer in some way.

Why is sanitation so stressed with us, but appear to be ignored on that show?

 

[Paps]

So,


Why is sanitation so stressed with us, but appear to be ignored on that show?

It could be a number of reasons.
1 - people brewed for thousnads of years before they knew what `sanitizer` was and the brewers on the show dont give a **** about it
2 - TV land is about glorification/dramitization of w/e it is they are showing and stressing the importance of making sure things are clean/snitary while being important to brewing do NOT make for exciting TV and therefore it is intentionally ignored for the sake of ratings/profits.

anywho....that's just what comes to mind offhand from your query.

 

[Sturg78]

I thought the same thing while watching that show. They used hot lava rocks to warm up a wort in Hawaii and just kinda plopped them into the kettle. I know they pitch what looks like a giant amount of yeast into a 6 gal carboy every show... maybe sanitation via competition?

 

[carhug]

I thought the same thing while watching that show. They used hot lava rocks to warm up a wort in Hawaii and just kinda plopped them into the kettle. I know they pitch what looks like a giant amount of yeast into a 6 gal carboy every show... maybe sanitation via competition?

I see,

Like the yeast just beats out all the other things competing to eat the sugars. That's an interesting point.

 

[carhug]

maybe sanitation via competition?

I see,

Like the yeast just beats out all the other things competing to eat the sugars. That's an interesting point.

 

[DrunkleJon]

We advocate sanitation so much because it is important to us to make good beer consistently. They are making a tv show. They are also serving the beer they make to the public. Government regulatory groups do not allow distribution of home brew. I would not be surprised if the batches they are making are getting dumped and a batch that is commercially produced is actually served at their 'tasting parties'. In the episodes I saw they made 5 maybe 10 gallon batches and seem to serve way more than 4 cases worth of beer.

 

[FiddlersGreen87]

Because once you'd thrown out an infected batch, you'll do whatever it takes to try to prevent wasting 5 gallons of beer you've put your time into making.

I've seen pictures of an oatmeal stout (not sure if it was Sam Smith's) that they use a huge open vat with a huge paddle. They allow the natural yeast to fall and do their thing. It was covered with a huge krausen and it was their normal process.

In the end they've obviously figured out how to resolve it off screen or in their process. Either way, I'm not taking the chance of yeast battling for the sugars against bugs, mold, or bird ****.

 

[Talgrath]

Because it's TV and they're paying for any losses the brewer might face due to dumping a batch. As far as open fermentation, technically there's nothing wrong with that, the gasses coming out of the brew will push out any air in the area, there are also some batches of beer (particularly in Belgium) that use local wild yeast from the air for fermentation. Putting your hat on top of the beer could introduce some nasty infections, but I'm sure that they had permission to do that from the brewery and are paying the brewery to cover any losses or expenses (plus the brewery gets free publicity); they may very well have just dumped that batch after that or were already planning to dump the batch because it wasn't going well.

 

[sasky7777]

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[sasky7777]

I thought the same thing while watching that show. They used hot lava rocks to warm up a wort in Hawaii and just kinda plopped them into the kettle. I know they pitch what looks like a giant amount of yeast into a 6 gal carboy every show... maybe sanitation via competition?

In that episode it was in the boil where the rocks were added. The rocks were well above 100*C so since they were screaming hot and in the boil sanitation is a non issue. It is called a stein beer check the May 2013 issue of BYO and http://byo.com/stories/beer-styles/item/857-hot-rocks-making-a-stein-beer

Also sanitation is boring that's why I think they don't show it.

 

[stratslinger]

I figure it's much the same reason that, when you watch any woodworking TV show ever made, they run the table saw with absolutely no safety equipment (blade guard, oftentimes no splitter/rivving knife, etc)whatsoever - like said above, it makes for a better, more interesting watching experience. However, where in a woodworking show the woodworker is clearly using the piece s/he just (very unsafely) just cut with or or very little protection, as has already been pointed out above, we don't really know for sure that the beer they serve is really the beer we watched them brew. It's definitely not seemed like a single carboy's worth should have gone as far as they seem to stretch theirs...

 

[AkTom]

I keep things clean and sanitary. I don't get obsessive about it though. I really want one of their 5 gallon carboys that produces 10 or 15 gallons, what a clever way to increase efficiency and production.;-)

 

[MichaelBrock]

There was a thread over on r/homebrewing where OP was one of the homebrewers in the San Francisco episode (I think...at least it was in California). I think he explained the batch that the batch they brew for the episode is not the batch they ultimately share at the end. Worth looking up the thread.

 

[J343MY]

There was a thread over on r/homebrewing where OP was one of the homebrewers in the San Francisco episode (I think...at least it was in California). I think he explained the batch that the batch they brew for the episode is not the batch they ultimately share at the end. Worth looking up the thread.

I was just about to post this. It was actually the LA episode I believe. But, yeah... they brew another batch and use that one.