Unfortunately this many bottles is a little optimistic for this batch.
Flat. The bubbles are just from pouring.
On my 6.5 gallon carboy, I wasn’t sure how much this is. Got 43 bottles out of it!
I knew this was gonna happen. Don’t fear the foam they say.
Cost per beer
bottom of carboy…. mmm, science.
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?)
mmm
The critical moment: pull out the siphon before we start sucking up other goodies.
Tasting. It was not very delicious.
1.005! I think.
Krausen at about 40 hours – This beer is bubbling constantly and the airlock smells SOÂ GOOD.
There it sits. Right next to that power strip. Brilliant.
bottling assembly line. Somehow it goes from right to left.
Bread and beer are my specialties. Look at that head!
Pretty clear
Already delicious on bottling day!
Lots of grain making it into the boiler.
snifffff
So clear!
PBW + Krausen = what looks like…
Iodine test
This is not what went in the beer.
Everything’s good but the color. But if use less extract to lighten it all the other paramaters get outta whack.
Here it is, ready to be bottled.
Ok, so I dumped about half of this.
Getting it done
Not my clearest beer. There was dry hopping and no secondary.
My first-ever mash
Bottling Beer #4
bottling
last swallow
Brew #2 – bottled
Brew in a bag
this wort drank pretty good
Perfect carbonation after a shake
about 4.5 gallons
Next morning… looking good. Lots of chunky guys in here.
New thermometer!
Vorlaufed, and it started running clear (maybe not in this pic yet) but still ended up with grain in my boil.
Big teabag of specialty grains
Brew #4: BeerP0rn
Old brew pot, NEW brew pot.
I forgot to pour mine aggressively! I had that head nice and pillowy last time…
Taste test vs. Yuenling lager, because that’s what I had around.
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.
Proteiny!
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.
Back in place and will soon be wearing a T-Shirt
soon that glass will say humble man brewery on it.
Yum
Empty primary vessel
Took a taste. Delicious, flat beer! My best so far. No off-flavors, and a nice bitter hoppiness!
hot break
last swallow
Read (and tasted) this a couple hours later.
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.
supervisor
The Cascade is doing better than the Centennial
Finally bubbles reduced enough that I can read this (sort of)
