Dirty Bastard Clone (with tasting) A Part 2 video

 

HELP! While recuperating from open heart surgery I stumbled upon some information about the benefits of monetizing your YouTube channel. I had never even considered that option to be viable for me but as it turns out its not just about getting a few cents for every ad that runs in your videos but there are tax write off opportunities.

So I have decided to go ahead and monetize the Easy Brewing channel. All these years I have laid out a lot of money to make videos... cameras... lighting... wireless mics... etc. I could have been writing these off on my taxes as well as brewing equipment and recipe ingredients.

If I can monetize the channel and only take advantage of the tax write offs not to mention the other ad sharing possibilities I will be able to make the channel better. However I need your help. I have the minimum number of subscribers but I am way short on video views.

The problem with attracting views right now is that I am unable to make new videos until I fully recover. So I am going through my older videos and re-editing and re-posting them. This is one of the first re-edited videos. I found two videos that could be combined into one like this one. A brew day video and then a few weeks later I taped and posted the tasting video. I need you to watch it... share it with your friends to watch... and then if you would be so kind as to scroll through my library and watch other videos. And also subscribe if you have not already. More views and more subscribers will help immensely. 

Thank you,
Kevin 

Brewing For All?

 

Is homebrewing for everyone?

I was watching a gardening video on YouTube recently and the host was going over a list of items to be avoided at the local big-box garden center. 

More than once he emphasized that the purpose of big-box stores is not to help you become a better gardener or even to supply you with the best plants and tools available. But rather to sell lots of everything both cheaply and conveniently. 

Then he said something that burrowed into the cynical, lizard part of my brain and took up residence. That if you are a beginner and are relying on these big-box stores to grow beautiful, lush plants, you are setting yourself up to fail. And you have two choices, lower your expectations... or perhaps gardening is not for you.

So what does this have to do with making beer? Two things... One: I harken back to the reason I began my YouTube channel in the first place. I had begun to make beer at home and a co-worker was curious about the process. I made a short video to outline the basics and then I invited him over to see how it is done. I was making simple extract batches on my kitchen stove at the time which is simply boiling water, opening and adding a can of liquid malt, cooling it, topping off and tossing in a packet of yeast. About halfway through the process he looks worried and says "this looks complicated!" and he never asked another question about making beer after that. 

At least that guy realized that as much as he liked beer and as much as the initial idea appealed to him, that this hobby wasn't the correct fit for him.

Second: Within days of watching that gardening video and hearing those words I read a couple of questions posed on a Facebook homebrewing page and another on a homebrewing forum. Both from newbie brewers who were reaching far beyond their skill level and with every answer they received a new term or process was mentioned that neither of them knew of or had heard about. And these were not super advance terms being used either. Things like "racking", "pitching" yeast, or even the word "wort". 

 It is difficult to try and help someone who doesn't even have the basic building blocks of knowledge such as language to understand what it is you are suggesting. These folks either need to lower their expectations or sell their equipment because it appears homebrewing is not for you!