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