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