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