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