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