Typical Brewday

OK, folks...I am a brewin'! With the laptop, so I can post pics right now...best I'm gonna come to webcam right now.

Here is the very first piece of equipment purchased for a special project:





Here's the basement brewery!



and here is my brew setup...first time I've really done it this way...there was too much grain to use my 5 gal, so I'm mashing in a bag in my 7.5 gallon and using my 9 gallon for the sparge, then running back into the 7.5 gallon to boil



Ooh...I forgot...I installed some more lights, I should use those and take another pic. Let me know if you'd like to see anything specific, besides my organs, of course.

im just getting started my 30qt stock pot has not even shown up in the mail yet so I'm super jeleous haha happy brewing

The mash:





Sparge water:



Mash draining through the colander



New brewery tools...haven't used the little guys yet.



Teh Brewery with lights!

shoot! Somehow deleted pictures of the run-off and the sparge. Oh well...basically I stuck the mash paddle under the bag so it could run-off freely through the spigot. I used 8 gallons and got about 7.5...I'm leaving a gallon behind (keeping it hot) and going to start boiling the mash and run-off. I only get about 0.5 gal absorption with the bag method if I let it drain through the colander.

Took some pics of the hop area while I was having a smoke:

I would love to brew a session with you. If I'm ever in the Yay area, I'm gonna look you up. I'm supposed to be in Dublin (CA) the first week in May for my wife's baby shower...we are from CA and all her friends and family are out there, but complications with the pregnancy might prohibit us from flying.

However, if we do, it is going to go something like this:

"Hey hun, I'm going to drive to Oakland to hang out with this fool DeathBrewer"

"Who?"

"Doesn't matter...I'll be back at 8. Have fun at your shower."

Here are some pics of the lambic, aging in the storage area:





And I almost got a boil-over from screwing around on HBT!

Doc Robinson said:

I would love to brew a session with you. If I'm ever in the Yay area, I'm gonna look you up. I'm supposed to be in Dublin (CA) the first week in May for my wife's baby shower...we are from CA and all her friends and family are out there, but complications with the pregnancy might prohibit us from flying.

However, if we do, it is going to go something like this:

"Hey hun, I'm going to drive to Oakland to hang out with this fool DeathBrewer"

"Who?"

"Doesn't matter...I'll be back at 8. Have fun at your shower."

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Sounds like a plan!

But you won't be back at 8

DeathBrewer said:

But you won't be back at 8

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Yeah...no ****.

But you know, I think the plane tickets are non-refundable at this point. Why let them go to waste right? I can still use mine...

srsly...come on over.

ok, next pics. Here's the mayhem left over from saturday night, with the Rye Poison on tap! I threw some ice in the jockey box (plate chiller) when I got home.









I'm boiling down a gallon or so of the amber...gonna get my color (was hitting it lower than i thought) and some wonderful flavor:

This is going to have magnum, centennial, amarillo, citra and simcoe...in small quantities throughout the boil.

Here's the magnum in a big bag.



Leftovers:



My new toy...the washer doesn't even get completely full...

did you build the conical in the pics?

Yuri built some conicals some time back and I was lucky enough to get to buy two of them:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/diy-conical-fermenter-14855/

A friend bought one and never used it, so I bought it back. It's currently being outfitted with sanitary fittings.

Pictures all up and running. Funny how I still use all this equipment, but in completely different ways now.