I knew this was gonna happen. Don’t fear the foam they say.
Already delicious on bottling day!
New thermometer!
Back in place and will soon be wearing a T-Shirt
Irish moss
My first-ever mash
Old brew pot, NEW brew pot.
bottom of carboy…. mmm, science.
FG: 1.003
Everything’s good but the color. But if use less extract to lighten it all the other paramaters get outta whack.
last swallow
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
On my 6.5 gallon carboy, I wasn’t sure how much this is. Got 43 bottles out of it!
mmm
Finally bubbles reduced enough that I can read this (sort of)
This is not what went in the beer.
snifffff
On the way to boiling. Extract brews seem to have a perfectly consistent foam.
Ok, so I dumped about half of this.
Brew in a bag
soon that glass will say humble man brewery on it.
Perfect carbonation after a shake
Artsy US-05 pic
Brew #4
hot break
Cost per beer
supervisor
About 5 minutes left in the boil
I forgot to pour mine aggressively! I had that head nice and pillowy last time…
Big teabag of specialty grains
Proteiny!
about 4.5 gallons
1.005! I think.
There it sits. Right next to that power strip. Brilliant.
Some people put a Ziploc bag over the mouth of their santized vessel. I prefer a StarSan forcefield.
Flat. The bubbles are just from pouring.
Iodine test
Of course I can read that.
Getting it done
The critical moment: pull out the siphon before we start sucking up other goodies.
Bottling Beer #4
Tasting. It was not very delicious.
Not my clearest beer. There was dry hopping and no secondary.
The Cascade is doing better than the Centennial
Here it is, ready to be bottled.
Rehydrating yeast
bottling
mmmm, hops. The smell is up there with coffee.
Go baby go.
Unfortunately this many bottles is a little optimistic for this batch.
Yum
Bread and beer are my specialties. Look at that head!
So clear!
Taste test vs. Yuenling lager, because that’s what I had around.
A nice closeup of the head, but this doesn’t really capture it’s true lighter, more reddish color.
Ready to go
Nice color, decent taste, but flat.
Empty primary vessel
Brew #4: BeerP0rn
Vorlaufed, and it started running clear (maybe not in this pic yet) but still ended up with grain in my boil.
Brew #2 – bottled
Beer 2
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.
Beersmith is damn good at estimating the color.
bottling assembly line. Somehow it goes from right to left.
The ol’ Spent Grain pile. Which I just started.
Took a taste. Delicious, flat beer! My best so far. No off-flavors, and a nice bitter hoppiness!
PBW + Krausen = what looks like…
Krausen at about 40 hours – This beer is bubbling constantly and the airlock smells SO GOOD.
Pretty clear
blowoff tube – necessary?
this wort drank pretty good
Lots of grain making it into the boiler.
Next morning… looking good. Lots of chunky guys in here.
