Dirty jug

Dirty jug

Look at the dirty carboy! It took a lot of elbow grease to clean this puppy up.

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Secondary

Secondary

Primary fermentation wound down and the gravity of the beer stabilized just under 1.020, which is pretty...

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Trub

Trub

Mmmm... Look at the layer of trub at the bottom of the primary fermentation vessel. Trub is a sediment...

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Fermentation

Fermentation

This beer fermented in the closet of our guest bedroom, which stayed to a low- to mid-sixties in...

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Yeast food

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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Go wort go!

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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Preparing for fermentation

Preparing for fermentation

I've got the sanitized auto siphone ready to rack the wort into the carboy

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Cold Break

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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Yeast

Yeast

Proofing the yeast. These little guys are super active! We got a good packet.

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Hops

Hops

Adding the bittering hops to the wort.

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Hot Break

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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Specialty Grains

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

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Sanitation

Sanitation

The brewing equipment is sanitizing in an iodophor solution in the bottling bucket.

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Carboy

Carboy

This is a 6-gallon carboy cleaned and sanitized, ready for action

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Ingredients

Ingredients

We used three gallons of spring water and two gallons of distilled water on the advice of Chris from...

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Bottom view

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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Side view

Side view

The stem really shined up quite nicely on the buffing wheel.

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Top view

Top view

It shined up really nice!

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