Apartment Brewing

[TheTower]

This is my first attempt at brewing in my new apartment. It's a one bedroom with a relatively small kitchen. Luckily, I don't pay for gas or water, so I can boil water to my heart's content. The brew of the day was a brown ale, full-boil extract with steeping grains.

7 lbs Light DME
8 oz molasses
8 oz crystal 60L
5 oz crystal 80L
4 oz biscuit malt
2 oz black patent

2.0 oz Goldings at 60 mins
1.5 oz Cascade at 15 mins

Nottingham Yeast

The Set-up: my kitchen filled with brewing equipment, my ingredients, and my kettle setup over double burners.

 

[TheTower]

Steeping the grains, reaching a boil/First hop addition, and drinking a homebrew IIPA.

 

[TheTower]

The remaining trub, my sample coming in at 1.054, and my fermenter with blowoff tube resting directly in front of an air conditioner.

 

[TheTower]

A few random other shots from the day....my brew closet/coat closet, SWMBO, and her guest star.

 

[Jersh]

Looks a lot like the kitchen in my condo when I'm brewing... Except I have to use the dining room table as well to hold my MLT...

 

[FireBrewer]

Very nice! Whereabouts in Baltimore?

 

[TheTower]

awww crap. It's actually live in Silver Spring now, I forgot to change it when I moved down here. I did live in Fell's Point while I was up there.

 

[FireBrewer]

Fells is alright. Been around Silver Spring a lot, that place gets crazy!

Cheers!

 

[brewyou]

very cool pics, using that double burner would definitely solve the problem of having such a big brew pot on a stove, will keep that in mind, hope it turns out well for ya