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