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How To: Brew homemade all grain beer
This series on all grain beer brewing teaches everything needed to know to make homemade beer. Brew different varieties of beers following these recipes and instructions. Learn how to make a home into a micro brewery and enjoy fresh beer whenever!
How To: Open a bottle using a CD or DVD
Have you ever seen someone open a champagne bottle with a sword? It's pretty impressive. If you're more of a beer-and-CD person than a champagne-saber person, you can do something almost equally impressive and very similar in technique by opening a beer bottle with a CD or DVD, and this video will show you how to do it.
News: HI-YA! DIY Karate Chop Bottle Opener
There are many ways to open a bottle, but you have to admire the simplicity and karate-esque action required in Instructable member Carleyy's scrap wood method. Don't be deterred by the use of power tools in the video below. All you really need is a piece of scrap wood, one nut, and one bolt.
How To: Make convertible jockey box to keep your beer cold
In this how-to video, KipKay shows you how to create an awesome convertible jockey box. It's perfect for keeping your beer cool and cold, perfect for a hot and sunny summer day. Get the directions here and just follow along with Kipkay. Once you get your equipment in place, you'll be having your own little beer cooler in no time at all!
How To: Shotgun a beer can & get drunk quick
This is a College 101 course as a "How To" guide for college freshmen. This is the tutorial on shotgunning beers. Find out this classic frat boy trick of shotgun. To shotgun is to stab a can with a key and then cracking open the top so that the beer pours quickly down your throat.
How To: Crack a beer with a lighter, CD, etc with Lifehouse
Bryce from the band Lifehouse shows us how to open beer bottles with a lighter, water bottle, & cd. This is a necessary trick for any beer afficiando. Need a bottle opened but you don't have a bottle opener? Easy. Look around. There are tons of things that can crack a brew.
How To: Brew a homemade Irish red ale beer
This is a video tutorial on how to homebrew your own Irish Red Ale beer. You will need Northern Brewer hops, Tettnang for aroma, Irish moss, cinnamon, malt, grains, and a mash tun. Watch this video home-brewing tutorial and learn how to brew an Irish red ale beer.
How To: Keg home brew beer
Home-brewing and home-bar enthusiasts should check out this how-to video. Don't know how to store that delicious homemade beer? Put it into a keg. Get fresh beer on tap anytime from your keg. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to keg home brew beer.
How To: Open a beer bottle with a lighter
Follow Greg as he gives simple tips to enjoy beer more. Just because you're Christian doesn't mean you can't enjoy a beer, just do it the way God intended! In this video tutorial, Greg shows how to open a beer with a lighter. Watch and learn how to get the bottle cap without using an opener, but just using a lighter.
How To: Open a beer bottle with a cigarette lighter
You've seen people open beer bottles with a cigarette lighter, but how do you do it? This how to video gives you a close up view of how a beer bottle can be opened with a cigarette lighter. This beer opening trick comes in handy when you don't have anything to open your beer with.
How To: Open a bottle of beer with all sorts of random objects
This video from Lifehouse will teach you how to open a beer with a bunch of random objects such as a CD, a lighter, or just another bottle. This is a cool bar trick by a hip Christian band.
Get Drunk LOTR Style: How to Make Your Own Medieval Gimli Beer Helmet
Not a sports fan, but still want to get your hands-free drink on? Instructables user DucttapeNinja has just the thing for you—a beer helmet inspired by Gimli from Lord of the Rings. So, now you can double the time between trips to the fridge during your next LOTR marathon. One helmet to intoxicate them all! You'll need a cheap drink helmet (with straws already attached), two matching tankards or steins, some craft foam, and acrylic paint.
How To: Make a Redneck Bottle Opener Out of a Nail & Scrap Wood
There are many, many ways to open a beer. You can use a piece of paper, a water bottle, or, if you're feeling tough, you can even use your forearm. But why do that when you can make your own bottle opener for nothing?
How To: Brew your own beer at home
Did you know that you can brew delicious beer in your own home? Don't let bar tabs get you down. Watch these videos to learn how to brew beer in the comfort of your own kitchen. It's a simple process and you'll definitely enjoy the results!
News: The Science Behind a Good Beer Head
Beer foam is a wonderful thing. It's what makes the scent of barley and hops waft up into your nostrils and starts your guzzling experience off right. Unless you think of foam as just wasted space that could have been more beer. To each his own.
How To: Improve the quality of your home brew by aerating your wort
Easy step by step guide into making your home brew, the best brew! By introducing oxygen into your wort before you begin fermenting it, you can greatly improve the quality and taste of your beer! Don't forget to leave your keys somewhere you can't reach! Skoal!!!
How To: Easily bottle and cap home brewed beer
Become a beer farmer and start saving cash on kegs by making everything yourself! This video teaches you how to bottle and cap your beer after you've brewed it.
How To: Drink like a man
Getting weird looks from the other dudes at the bar? Maybe because you're ordering a sex on the beach like the other women. Spit out that tropical drink or wine spritzer and throw away your stemware. It's time to put some hair on your chest, hoss.
How To: Open a Beer with a Lighter
Want to impress your friends at a party? Show them your survival skills by opening a beer with a lighter.
How To: Keep beer cold
If your beer seems too warm, you could always drink it faster! Or, you could keep it cold longer with these tricks.
News: Open a beer bottle with a beer bottle
Perfect for washing down the last of the Cinco de Mayo tequila swigs. It's as if the bottle inventor planned it just right. Open a beer... with another beer!
How To: Open a bottle of beer with a piece of paper
Amazing Bar trick! All you need is a beer and piece of paper. Fold the paper as shown. And voila! Open your beer, easy as pie.
How To: Open a beer bottle with another beer bottle
Need to know how to open a beer bottle with another beer bottle? We thought so. It's pretty easy. Leverage the bottle cap with the cap edge of the other beer. This will lead you to consume too much beer. Beware. The Irish handcuffs will disable you.
How To: Pack a beer cooler
The only thing worse than having only warm beer on hand? Having no beer on hand. You will need a large cooler, lots of ice, beer bottles or cans, and rock salt. Watch this video alcohol tutorial and learn how to pack a beer cooler.
How To: Oxygenate aerate home-brewed wort for beer
This how-to video demonstrates a very simple way to aerate your wort after the boil. This method is less expensive then buying an oxygen tank, at the start yeast likes an aerated environment to begin the aerobic process of fermentation. Add oxygen to your wort to reduce the lag time for the yeast to condition themselves to your carboy. Watch this video home-brewing tutorial and learn how to oxygenate and aerate home-brewed wort for beer-making.
How To: Bottle and cap your home brewed beer
Once you have gottebn your brewed beer into the bottling bucket it is time for the final step--bottling your home brewed beer! This instructional video teaches you how to transfer your home brewed beer into bottles, putting emphasis on proper sanitation. After you have filled all of your bottles with beer it is ready to cap them! You have to wait two weeks after your bottles have been capped to let the fermentation finish but then you can enjoy your batch of home made beer! Yum!
How To: Start brewing your very own homemade beer
Brewing homemade beer is cheap, fun and has never been easier than with this instructional video! This tutorial takes you step by step on how to start brewing your very own batch of beer. Taking you through the initial fermentation process, the tutorial teaches how to use your initial selection of malt and grains to instill a delicious and unique flavor in your homemade beer. With this method you control the level of hops, barley, and malt--there are no limits to how you can customize your ow...
How To: Make beer cooling ice cups
Here is a great idea for parties. This beer how-to video shows you how to create beer cooling ice cups with plastic cups. To keep your beer cold and make these ice cups you will need: plastic cups, water, and a heavy glass.
How To: Chill a beer in 5 minutes or less
Just got back from the store with the beer for the party and it starts in two hours? Then learn how to chill a beer quickly in a crunch with minimal equipment. Kelly from HackCollege shows you 3 different methods of getting your beer ice cold in this how-to video.
How To: Shotgun a can of beer if you are left handed
This how to video demonstrates the step by step process of how to shotgun a can of beer. This particular method is useful if you are left handed.
How To: Chug a beer like an outdoorsman
Learn how to chug beer in the wild like a true outdoorsman. Of course, this trick should amaze anyone, anywhere so try it next time you're out with friends.
How To: Make a beer bottle filler
Learn how to make a beer bottle filler. You don't need a beergun or counterpressure bottle filler to send a few bottles of homebrew to your friends.
How To: Pour Different Types of Beer Properly
Think you can pour your favorite cold one in any old glass? Think again. Watch as a seasoned pro shows you the proper way to pour various beers. Pouring Beer - How to Properly Pour Beer in a Glass Video.
How To: Make a beer bong with a lighter and a straw
Ready to impress a bar full of strangers? With this trick, you can make a beer bong with just a straw and a lighter! Make a beer bong with a lighter and a straw.
How To: Brew homemade beer
Watch these how to video to learn how to brew homemade beer. Its sure to tastes as good as the store bought kind. Our host goes over the basics of what you'll need to start making your own batch of and how to set up your brewery. He also guides you through the simple steps for making a delicious light beer and how to bottle it too.
How To: Use a sparge arm
The use of a sparge arm in all grain brewing makes it easier to "wash" the grains of their sugars. Watch this how to video to learn how to use one.
How To: Shotgun a beer
Like beer, but disappointed you can’t drink faster? Use the awesome power of atmospheric pressure to slam down that brewski in less time than it takes to regret it!
How To: Make and use a beer bong
This video series is going to show you how to make a beer bong and then use it. The point of a beer bong is to move liquid without foam as fast as possible through a funnel utilizing gravity right into your stomach. It's not as easy as it sounds so check it out.
How To: Home brew pilsner beer
In this video series, our expert will show you how to home brew your own pilsner beer. You will learn about the ingredients and supplies required for home brewing beer, as well as step-by-step instructions on the beer brewing process. Learn how to prepare and boil your malts, hops and special grains for pilsner beer, and how to ferment and siphon the beer. If you've ever wanted to home brew beer, this video will give you all the information you will ever need to make your own pilsner beer.
How To: Make mash
Watch this instructional video to learn how to make mash. At the right temperature, grain and water make the perfect food for yeast. This step is very important for the taste of the beer.