On the way to boiling. Extract brews seem to have a perfectly consistent foam.
This is not what went in the beer.
Ready to go
Brew in a bag
The critical moment: pull out the siphon before we start sucking up other goodies.
this wort drank pretty good
Artsy US-05 pic
Perfect carbonation after a shake
Here it is, ready to be bottled.
Irish moss
Iodine test
Brew #2 – bottled
blowoff tube – necessary?
I forgot to pour mine aggressively! I had that head nice and pillowy last time…
Vorlaufed, and it started running clear (maybe not in this pic yet) but still ended up with grain in my boil.
On my 6.5 gallon carboy, I wasn’t sure how much this is. Got 43 bottles out of it!
Brew #4: BeerP0rn
Flat. The bubbles are just from pouring.
last swallow
Big teabag of specialty grains
So clear!
Cost per beer
Rehydrating yeast
Everything’s good but the color. But if use less extract to lighten it all the other paramaters get outta whack.
FG: 1.003
Taste test vs. Yuenling lager, because that’s what I had around.
There it sits. Right next to that power strip. Brilliant.
Now confident enough to follow the rule “drink a homebrew while you homebrew” In my glass is beer #4. I could probably wash this yeast and re-use it, but not quite ready for that.
Go baby go.
This is not really a head from carbonation, as there is none yet. It’s just from splashing and pouring (and Star San foam?)
Beersmith is damn good at estimating the color.
A nice closeup of the head, but this doesn’t really capture it’s true lighter, more reddish color.
Krausen at about 40 hours – This beer is bubbling constantly and the airlock smells SO GOOD.
Unfortunately this many bottles is a little optimistic for this batch.
Beer 2
Empty primary vessel
Took a taste. Delicious, flat beer! My best so far. No off-flavors, and a nice bitter hoppiness!
last swallow
PBW + Krausen = what looks like…
bottom of carboy…. mmm, science.
New thermometer!
Bread and beer are my specialties. Look at that head!
Yum
Read (and tasted) this a couple hours later.
Some people put a Ziploc bag over the mouth of their santized vessel. I prefer a StarSan forcefield.
bottling
Back in place and will soon be wearing a T-Shirt
Tasting. It was not very delicious.
bottling assembly line. Somehow it goes from right to left.
My first-ever mash
The ol’ Spent Grain pile. Which I just started.
hot break
About 5 minutes left in the boil
Lots of grain making it into the boiler.
Nice color, decent taste, but flat.
Not my clearest beer. There was dry hopping and no secondary.
Of course I can read that.
I knew this was gonna happen. Don’t fear the foam they say.
1.005! I think.
Getting it done
mmmm, hops. The smell is up there with coffee.
Already delicious on bottling day!
Brew #4
soon that glass will say humble man brewery on it.
Finally bubbles reduced enough that I can read this (sort of)
about 4.5 gallons
supervisor
Next morning… looking good. Lots of chunky guys in here.
