Gratuitous br3w pr0n

[bernerbrau]

Started at 150, finished at 149.

Sparge water heating

Yeast starter

Cleaning the carboy and wort chiller

Vorlaufing

 

[bernerbrau]

Collecting wort

Desmond is helping.

Grain bed

First runnings

 

[kaiser423]

Is it just me, or is my head blurry?

looks like a nice brew day :rockin:

 

[bernerbrau]

Cut it out, I took the pics from my phone

Just calculated an efficiency of 74.42%!!

6.06 gallons pre-boil, 1.049 pre-boil gravity. Fantastic.

 

[bernerbrau]

My but that's a lot of wort. Much darker than I expected too.

1.049 Pre-boil gravity.

Wort ready for boil.

 

[bernerbrau]

About to boil...

Kinda looks like an espresso.

palisade hops, approximately divvied up for 2 additions at 60 and 15 minutes.

wort boiling

 

[rico567]

If 'ol Desmond were facing outward on that tun, that could provide some interesting adjuncts........

 

[bernerbrau]

Sanitizing the chiller

icing the pre-chiller

Chillin'

Managed to boil off just a little too much there Looks like about 3.5 gallons at 1.72 OG!!! I'm thinking I'm gonna wanna top off some, yes?

Here comes the starter!

In its new home for the next 4 weeks!

 

[bernerbrau]

The mess I must now clean up...........

 

[rsmith179]

And may I ask what type of beer that was? Another porter or something? Definately looked dark from those pics! Nice pictoral of a great brewday!

 

[bernerbrau]

Was supposed to be a dunkelweizen... Came out a lot darker than I expected. Maybe a little less chocolate wheat next time.

EDIT: Now I'm calling it a weizenbock.

 

[bernerbrau]

Biggest head of krausen I ever done seen.

 

[Captain_Bigelow]

I see you sanitized your wort chiller in starsan. Why don't you just put in your brew pot about 15 minutes before the end of the boil?

 

[bernerbrau]

Because I needed an acid wash to minimize oxidation from the copper.