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