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