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