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