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