After a fine weekend with the parents, my mother kindly tells me
"Wisski, you are boring, you need a hobby. Why don't you take up knitting?" to which I responded
"Mother, gfy"
She did have a point and it led me to consider, maybe just maybe... I needed something new to consume my free time. Seeing as I already had an inordinate knowledge of beer, including how to drink so much you stumble into the front yard of a house party while it's getting busted. I figured it's only a logical progression to advance my knowledge to a level where I can make my own beer, whenever I want, as strong as I want.
So I began buy spending 100$ for everything I needed to make my first batch. Here it is ready to be sanitized, and used to make a very fine India Pale Ale.
I spent Sunday afternoon cleaning and preparing for "Brew day 001" by boiling cans of sugar so I didn't leave any yeast fodder behind.
Once the equipment was germ free, and the sugar was melted, the brewing began. I tied up all the grains in my nylon, and sunk it into hot(155F) water.
After 20 minutes of soaking, and the water turning rather brown. It was time for the sugar and the first addition of hops.
After I boiled the previous mixture of water, sugar, hops and malted barley for 45 minutes.
It was time to cool and add the yeast. I used 2 gallons of cold spring water, and ice cubes that I made by boiling then freezing water to sanitize it. Then transfer it to the Primary Fermenter so the yeast could finally begin to metabolize all that yummy sugar into the ever coveted Ethyl Alcohol.
The Yeast, hydrated.
and the Final Product.
At Least I THOUGHT it would be the final product, but this morning I had a little "Surprise" During the night, the yeast were SOOO happy with the sugar mixture i had made them, they blew their load, all over my kitchen, can't wait until i get to drink the little bastards.
Moral of the story, Beer is good.
"Wisski, you are boring, you need a hobby. Why don't you take up knitting?" to which I responded
"Mother, gfy"
She did have a point and it led me to consider, maybe just maybe... I needed something new to consume my free time. Seeing as I already had an inordinate knowledge of beer, including how to drink so much you stumble into the front yard of a house party while it's getting busted. I figured it's only a logical progression to advance my knowledge to a level where I can make my own beer, whenever I want, as strong as I want.
So I began buy spending 100$ for everything I needed to make my first batch. Here it is ready to be sanitized, and used to make a very fine India Pale Ale.
I spent Sunday afternoon cleaning and preparing for "Brew day 001" by boiling cans of sugar so I didn't leave any yeast fodder behind.
Once the equipment was germ free, and the sugar was melted, the brewing began. I tied up all the grains in my nylon, and sunk it into hot(155F) water.
After 20 minutes of soaking, and the water turning rather brown. It was time for the sugar and the first addition of hops.
After I boiled the previous mixture of water, sugar, hops and malted barley for 45 minutes.
It was time to cool and add the yeast. I used 2 gallons of cold spring water, and ice cubes that I made by boiling then freezing water to sanitize it. Then transfer it to the Primary Fermenter so the yeast could finally begin to metabolize all that yummy sugar into the ever coveted Ethyl Alcohol.
The Yeast, hydrated.
and the Final Product.
At Least I THOUGHT it would be the final product, but this morning I had a little "Surprise" During the night, the yeast were SOOO happy with the sugar mixture i had made them, they blew their load, all over my kitchen, can't wait until i get to drink the little bastards.
Moral of the story, Beer is good.
great pics. The final product ends up in your belly, btw! 
