Next morning… looking good. Lots of chunky guys in here.
Of course I can read that.
I forgot to pour mine aggressively! I had that head nice and pillowy last time…
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.
So clear!
Pretty clear
Read (and tasted) this a couple hours later.
bottling assembly line. Somehow it goes from right to left.
Taste test vs. Yuenling lager, because that’s what I had around.
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.
Empty primary vessel
On the way to boiling. Extract brews seem to have a perfectly consistent foam.
On my 6.5 gallon carboy, I wasn’t sure how much this is. Got 43 bottles out of it!
Flat. The bubbles are just from pouring.
snifffff
hot break
This is not what went in the beer.
Nice color, decent taste, but flat.
I knew this was gonna happen. Don’t fear the foam they say.
Vorlaufed, and it started running clear (maybe not in this pic yet) but still ended up with grain in my boil.
Iodine test
Big teabag of specialty grains
Cost per beer
Lots of grain making it into the boiler.
Unfortunately this many bottles is a little optimistic for this batch.
Perfect carbonation after a shake
mmm
My first-ever mash
Brew #4
Ready to go
Here it is, ready to be bottled.
About 5 minutes left in the boil
Brew in a bag
Proteiny!
soon that glass will say humble man brewery on it.
The critical moment: pull out the siphon before we start sucking up other goodies.
1.005! I think.
Brew #2 – bottled
mmmm, hops. The smell is up there with coffee.
Tasting. It was not very delicious.
Old brew pot, NEW brew pot.
last swallow
Getting it done
this wort drank pretty good
New thermometer!
Bottling Beer #4
about 4.5 gallons
bottom of carboy…. mmm, science.
Ok, so I dumped about half of this.
Beer 2
There it sits. Right next to that power strip. Brilliant.
Rehydrating yeast
last swallow
bottling
Irish moss
Yum
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.
The Cascade is doing better than the Centennial
Back in place and will soon be wearing a T-Shirt
This is not really a head from carbonation, as there is none yet. It’s just from splashing and pouring (and Star San foam?)
Krausen at about 40 hours – This beer is bubbling constantly and the airlock smells SO GOOD.
Artsy US-05 pic
Finally bubbles reduced enough that I can read this (sort of)
Bread and beer are my specialties. Look at that head!
The ol’ Spent Grain pile. Which I just started.
blowoff tube – necessary?
Brew #4: BeerP0rn
Everything’s good but the color. But if use less extract to lighten it all the other paramaters get outta whack.
