The critical moment: pull out the siphon before we start sucking up other goodies.
Rehydrating yeast
blowoff tube – necessary?
Brew #4: BeerP0rn
bottling assembly line. Somehow it goes from right to left.
About 5 minutes left in the boil
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.
Nice color, decent taste, but flat.
Already delicious on bottling day!
New thermometer!
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
bottling
Of course I can read that.
Go baby go.
Taste test vs. Yuenling lager, because that’s what I had around.
snifffff
Getting it done
My first-ever mash
Unfortunately this many bottles is a little optimistic for this batch.
hot break
Here it is, ready to be bottled.
about 4.5 gallons
Beersmith is damn good at estimating the color.
This is not really a head from carbonation, as there is none yet. It’s just from splashing and pouring (and Star San foam?)
Proteiny!
This is not what went in the beer.
Ok, so I dumped about half of this.
Perfect carbonation after a shake
Bread and beer are my specialties. Look at that head!
last swallow
Next morning… looking good. Lots of chunky guys in here.
On my 6.5 gallon carboy, I wasn’t sure how much this is. Got 43 bottles out of it!
The Cascade is doing better than the Centennial
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.
mmm
Old brew pot, NEW brew pot.
Empty primary vessel
So clear!
The ol’ Spent Grain pile. Which I just started.
bottom of carboy…. mmm, science.
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…
Flat. The bubbles are just from pouring.
Finally bubbles reduced enough that I can read this (sort of)
Ready to go
PBW + Krausen = what looks like…
Vorlaufed, and it started running clear (maybe not in this pic yet) but still ended up with grain in my boil.
Everything’s good but the color. But if use less extract to lighten it all the other paramaters get outta whack.
There it sits. Right next to that power strip. Brilliant.
Krausen at about 40 hours – This beer is bubbling constantly and the airlock smells SO GOOD.
On the way to boiling. Extract brews seem to have a perfectly consistent foam.
Tasting. It was not very delicious.
last swallow
1.005! I think.
this wort drank pretty good
supervisor
Big teabag of specialty grains
A nice closeup of the head, but this doesn’t really capture it’s true lighter, more reddish color.
Brew #4
Irish moss
Lots of grain making it into the boiler.
mmmm, hops. The smell is up there with coffee.
Brew in a bag
Beer 2
soon that glass will say humble man brewery on it.
