0:15 Would have been nice to see a directed by credit here.
0:20 Violently stirring the DME into the water. Nice. Jarring. Takes the audience out of their comfort zone right out of the box. And then fade to black, leaving them with many unanswered questions. Like, what the hell did I just watch?
0:31 Oh God, hes pouring boiling hot wort right into his carboy?! Oh, wait. Its only a starter. Whew.
0:46 Vigorously rattling the yeast vial: good use of foreshadowing.
0:57 Watching the vortex spin gives the viewer a chance to reflect on how our universe is like that. Thats deep. We are so small, and yet still connected.
1:07 I think you were a little heavy-handed here. You could have just showed the viewers the grain IN the bucket instead of showing them the words grain bucket. But this added tension, so it was still pretty good. Oh God its a bucket full of grain! Whats going to happen next?! I CANT WATCH!
1:23 Nice time-lapse work here, showing how annoying it is to go up and down the basement stairs to get all of your equipment. This really helps capture the essence of Brew Day.
1:34 And then we see the equipment all lined up, from a low angle, to make the equipment look monolithic and overpowering. Almost majestic in their shared goal: to make beer. Beautiful.
1:40-2:18 This was a touching homage to the unsung hero of Brew Day: water. Without water, Brew Day would be pretty meaningless. And it would be really hard to clean things.
2:20 DANGER KEEP OUT OF REACH OF C
something. Children? Cousins? Cichlids? Chinchillas? Im going to go with chinchillas. Theres no telling what havoc chinchillas could wreak with undiluted Star San.
2:46 Im going to assume that this was fast-motion work, because if not, then that was some of the most vigorous mash paddling I have ever seen. You probably wouldnt even need to heat the strike water due to the excessive friction heat caused by that. Which would be pretty neat.
3:06 Vorlaufing in near-complete darkness. And the once clear water is now dark wort. Symbolizing that the vorlauf stage of Brew Day is the darkest part of the night before the dawn. Did we mess up the mash? Are we going to hit our efficiency? Is this going to be a terrible batch of beer? So many self-doubts fill us during the vorlauf. Its a good time to drink a beer.
3:32 The fly sparge shot shows us the inevitability of the hot liquor becoming sweet wort. Our little babies are growing up before our very eyes.
3:53 7.3 gallons of boiling wort. Numbers mean a lot in films like this. I have no idea what it references in this instance, but Im sure it references something.
4:11 From the kettle, through the chiller, to the fermenting bucket. Our once-virginal water makes its journey towards becoming BEER. So many water molecules will never have the chance to be in beer. Such a shame.
4:22 You forgot about the stir bar, didnt you. Dont lie. You did.
4:30 And then we come to the biggest plot hole in the whole film: the airlock. He is shown standing there, on top of the now impregnated wort, waiting for his chance to bubble. But does he? DOES HE?! NO!
4:36 Instead, we see a big bucket of sudsy stuff bubbling instead. WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED TO AIRLOCK?
5:04 A claim stating that billions of yeast were harmed in the making of this film would have been the responsible thing to say.
Yes, we need to see a part two.