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