Join Ken as he makes a country-styled pumpkin beer using the culturally-beloved Hispanic children’s soda, known as malta, as his base. Malta is a really good “cheat” or “hack” to make a quick and easy beer. Beer is culturally significant to American and Western culture. In the video, Ken mistakenly used some wrong measurements, misstated a measurement or two, and had some fails (i.e., he said he used 1 cup of pumpkin when he used 2 cups, he said “lower pH when he meant higher pH for the Alkaline water). This is the correct recipe he should have followed. This is the correct recipe for his pumpkin beer: KEN JOHNSON’s COUNTRY-STYLED PUMPKIN BEER 2 Cups Pumpkin Puree 2 Cups Dark Brown Sugar (Plus 1 1/2 Reserve) 50 (About 1 ½ Tbsp) Allspice Berries, Crushed 1 Cup Florida Orange Juice 1 Gal. 1 Qt. Water (Plus 1 ½ Cup Warm Water Reserve set at About 98°F) 42 Oz. Malta Soda ½ Packet Yeast (True British Ale Yeast is Preferred) Carbonation Mix: 1 ½ Cup Slightly Warm Water (98°F) 1 Tbsp. Brown Sugar In a cup, mix together your reserved water and sugar with your yeast. Let it sit to the side. In a large 2 1/2 gallon pot add the pumpkin, brown sugar, orange juice, crushed allspice berries, orange juice, and water. Bring to a boil and reduce to about half. Add the malta and let simmer about three minutes. This mixture is now a wort. Sieve out the wort into a clean and sterilized gallon container (fermenter). Take the strained pulp and save for a different cooking project (pumpkin cookie recipe to follow in Part 3 of this video series). Add water, if needed, to bring up the headspace to about 3-4 inches from the top. Place an airlock on top of the fermenter. Let ferment for about 15 days at 69°F to 72°F. On day 15, mix together your carbonation mix, let stand about 15 minutes, remove your fermenter’s airlock, siphon the beer off into a cleaned and sterilized container being careful not to get the sediment. pour in your carbonation mix into the beer, stir well, siphon beer into bottles (leave about 1-inch headspace at the top of each bottle), and cap. Let sit for about another week before chilling and serving. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGsG4WZrUgw

Family is important. Can we all agree on that? In this video, Ken gets a call from his mother. She is watching his niece and asked if he'd take them #mullet #fishing. Only having about an hour to fish, Ken obliged. Here, you will see three generations of Ken's family bantering, passing along the knowledge of fishing, and just making memories. Thank you for watching! #mulletfishing #canepole #canepolefishing #teachthemyoung #family #familytime #familyfun #familyfishing ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqLRThJL6-k