The Underground Brewery

New video · July 28, 2026

Snack Cake and Beer Pairing

Jayne takes over the channel for her birthday — freshly cleared to eat gluten again — and puts a whole shelf of grocery-store snack cakes up against a beer list Drew picked entirely on his own. Neither of them knows how it's going to go. Neither will you, until you press play.

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From the Basement

Everything in order, newest first — brew days and experiment series alike. Brewing is better when you test it, and every entry below has the tasting to prove it.

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Grain to Glass · March 1, 2026

Gluten Free Hefeweizen — Grain to Glass

A hefeweizen with no wheat — and no gluten at all. Buckwheat, millet, and quinoa take on the hardest style in gluten-free brewing, built as a retirement gift for a Milwaukee firefighter. Did the banana and clove survive the swap? Press play.

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Series · December 2025 – January 2026 · 11 videos

Brewtubers 2025 Malt Experiment

Eleven brewers, one amber ale recipe, eleven different specialty malts — melanoidin, Red X, toffee malt, biscuit malt, even a gluten-free millet malt. Tasted back to back, it's a working flavor library for anyone who's ever wondered what that malt on the shop shelf actually does to a beer.

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Grain to Glass · December 13, 2025

Griffin Malt — 2025 Malt Experiment #1

The brew day that kicks off the 2025 malt experiment: two full pounds of Griffin gluten-free millet malt auditioning in an amber ale. It brings raisin and dark fruit nobody expected — maybe a gluten-free barley wine in our future?

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Grain to Glass · May 25, 2025

Gluten Free Mexican Lager — Grain to Glass

The house Mexican lager, cloned with 100% gluten-free ingredients — millet, corn, and enzymes. Then the side-by-side twist: how close does the gluten-free version actually get? Full recipes included.

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Grain to Glass · February 9, 2025

Scottish Export — Grain to Glass

The first-ever Grain to Glass: a proper malty Scottish Export on a 10-gallon Maris Otter grain bill that went on to take second place for Best of Show at the Wisconsin State Fair. What does a slight-roast, Maris-Otter-forward Scottish Export actually taste like? Press play.

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Series · June–December 2024 · 11 videos

Brewtubers 2024 Fruit Experiment

Ten brewers across the country made the exact same American wheat beer — then each added strawberries at a different stage, from whole fruit in the boil to syrup in the keg. Reviewed side by side, they answer a question every fruit-beer brewer has: when you add the fruit changes everything.

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The Basement Files · August 10, 2024

Is Shipping Beers in the Summer Safe?

What actually happens to homebrew baking in a delivery truck in July? Four beers get shipped in 92°F heat with a data logger riding along, then face a triangle test to see if anyone can taste the difference.

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The Basement Files · June 12, 2024

Brewtubers 2024 Strawberry Beer Experiment (and Channel Intro)

Where it all started: Drew introduces the basement in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, and the online club he found after moving too far from his old homebrew group. It's also brew day for the 2024 fruit experiment — two pounds of hand-picked strawberries into a shared wheat beer.

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The club behind the experiments

The Brewtubers

An online homebrew club with members from California to Germany. Members ship beers to each other, meet on Discord, and every year brew the same recipe with one variable changed — then review the results side by side. The 2024 fruit experiment and 2025 malt experiment on this site both came out of the club.

Hanging out on the Discord is free, and you don't need a YouTube channel to join in. Paid members get to participate in the experiments and beer swaps.

2annual experiments reviewed on the channel
21experiment beers tasted — zero duds
peer pressure, applied responsibly