A couple of weeks ago, a coworker gave me a bunch of homebrewing equipment he was no longer using. Today was brew-day! I'm making a 5-gallon batch of Brown Porter. This was the first time I've actually strayed from the kits and used grains in my brewing.
"This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption... Beer!" -Friar Tuck
Here they are all crunched up.
Starting the pseudo-mash.
After steeping for about 10 of 20 minutes.
Just added the bittering hops (Kent Goldings)
Another important ingredient
My camera batteries went dead, but after an hour of boiling, I sparged the wort into cold water. Once the wort cooled to about 70-80*, the wort was aerated and I pitched the yeast. It's now sitting in the fermenter in my basement with a heater to keep it between 60-75*.
Original gravity was a little low at 1.035-1.036, but it should still turn out pretty good.
"This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption... Beer!" -Friar Tuck
Here they are all crunched up.
Starting the pseudo-mash.
After steeping for about 10 of 20 minutes.
Just added the bittering hops (Kent Goldings)
Another important ingredient
My camera batteries went dead, but after an hour of boiling, I sparged the wort into cold water. Once the wort cooled to about 70-80*, the wort was aerated and I pitched the yeast. It's now sitting in the fermenter in my basement with a heater to keep it between 60-75*.
Original gravity was a little low at 1.035-1.036, but it should still turn out pretty good.
