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