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