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