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