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