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| 11/26/2000 |
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Starting off the entire process by
sanitizing everything the beer might touch. |
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Adding water to prepare the wort (beer). I'm using
plain old bottled water |
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The 5-gallon pot with the grains soaking in it.
The grains add the majority of the color to the final product. |
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Weighing out the pelletized hops. They kind of
look like rabbit droppings |
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Pouring in the malt extract syrup, which provides the
majority of the flavor to beer. |
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Stupid wort boiled over, and I ended up losing a lot of it! |
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| Me pouring the finished wort (in the white bucket) into
the fermenter (the glass jug) that my brother is holding. |
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The fermenter, where the wort sits for a week, and also
a little sample of the wort to take a specific gravity reading, which
will determine the final beer's alcohol content. |
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| 12/3/2000 (one week later) |
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Running the empty bottles through the dishwasher to fully
clean and sanitize them. |
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I'm trying to suck at the end of the tube to start the siphon
that is used to fill up the bottles. I swallowed too many mouthfuls
of the uncarbonated beer, but it actually tasted really good at this point. |
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Just filling up a bottle... |
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All the beer I produced: 24 12-oz bottles and 6 22-oz bottles for
a total of 420 ounces, or 3.3 gallons. I should have produced 5 gallons, so I
obviously lost a lot in my earlier steps. |
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The bottling process. I now need to design a name and label
for my beer. Any suggestions? |
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The master brewer himself with the good brew. Now I just need to wait 3 weeks for the beer to age. |
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