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