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Dirty jug
Look at the dirty carboy! It took a lot of elbow grease to clean this puppy up.
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Uploaded on Jan 16, 2011
Secondary
Primary fermentation wound down and the gravity of the beer stabilized just under 1.020, which is pretty...
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Uploaded on Jan 16, 2011
Trub
Mmmm... Look at the layer of trub at the bottom of the primary fermentation vessel. Trub is a sediment...
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Uploaded on Jan 16, 2011
Fermentation
This beer fermented in the closet of our guest bedroom, which stayed to a low- to mid-sixties in...
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Uploaded on Jan 16, 2011
Yeast food
The yeast has been pitched and the airlock in place. This is now considered beer. Now to sit for 5-7...
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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2011
Go wort go!
The siphon is going and I'm sitting back watching it happen. I could have (or should have) just used my...
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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2011
Preparing for fermentation
I've got the sanitized auto siphone ready to rack the wort into the carboy
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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2011
Cold Break
We cooled the wort after the boil in an ice water bath in the sink. I had to change it out as the heat...
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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2011
Yeast
Proofing the yeast. These little guys are super active! We got a good packet.
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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2011
Hot Break
The water is now boiling, the malts and sugars have been added, and it reached the hot break. Seriously,...
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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2011
Specialty Grains
This kit came with some specialty grains we steeped before bringing the kit to a boil. For 20 minutes we kept the temperature at a nice 150 degrees.
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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2011
Sanitation
The brewing equipment is sanitizing in an iodophor solution in the bottling bucket.
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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2011
Carboy
This is a 6-gallon carboy cleaned and sanitized, ready for action
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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2011
Ingredients
We used three gallons of spring water and two gallons of distilled water on the advice of Chris from...
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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2011
Bottom view
More birdseye. You can really see here where I could have spent more time evening up my shape, but for...
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Uploaded on Nov 11, 2010
Side view
The stem really shined up quite nicely on the buffing wheel.
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Uploaded on Nov 11, 2010
Brew Day
Mason at Home
First Carved Pipe
Mason in the NICU
