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How To Home Brew - Tutorial w/ Pics

StogieFarts

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Hey guys.....I did this many, many years ago for another website but finally tracked down the pictures to post here!

Ok, for all my beer brewing buddies, I apologize for explaining each picture in detail, like what everything is, as if you didn't know your ass from some other dark, stinky orifice in the ground. This is mainly to show off my beer stuff AND to explain to non-brewing people the process.

First of all, we have the materials, pictured below. Most people brew 5 gallon batches of beer, which usually consist of 5 gallons of water, some honey-looking extract, some specialty grains, some yeast, and some hops.

Materials.jpg


With water heated to roughly 170 degrees Fahhherenenheeit (however the fuck you spell that), I pour in the extract:

PourExtract.jpg


By the way, in the above picture, that is not piss in that cylindrical tube on the left. It's actually a sample of beer from a previous batch that I was taking hydrometer measurements on.

And disregard the pussy "wine blender" bottle and Midori Melon mixers on the right. Manly men like me only have those in my house to pacify the wife and her girly friends.

Ok, now that we have the extract in the pot, we also need to add the hops. They are called hops because they're so bitter, they make people jump all over the fucking place when they try to suck on them:

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Now we leave this cook for 60 minutes, occassionally stirring and watching out for "boil-overs." Boil overs happen when the cooker (aka ME) is busy drinking beer in the other room.

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Since this is part can get boring, most homebrewers drink more beer during this process. Since I didn't have any of my own beer ready to consume, I decided to buy some Sierra Nevada Barleywine beer. However, since I am used to lighter beers, this extremely bitter style was enough to make my pubic hair go straight:

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While drinking this bitter, 9.6% alcohol beer, I started to do really stupid things, as I sometimes do when a camera is involved. So I decided to perform a little public service announcement about the straight vs. gay ways of drinking. Observe.

Here is the STRAIGHT WAY to drink a beer:

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Notice the upright posture, the firm drip of the bottle, and lips properly placed on the outer rim of the neck.

Now, observe the GAY WAY to drink a beer:

GayWay.jpg


Notice that the hands are grasping, or groping if you will, the bottle like some kind of crystallized penis. The mouth is actually deep throating the bottle, and there appears to be a slight tinge of erotic excitement in my expression.

I'll tell you one thing, I deserve a goddamn Oscar for that performance, because I am at least 99.99% straight. I just leave a little room for experimentation in there, in case I want to perform self-fellatio or something.

Anyway, after the boil, we need to cool down the pot to roughly 70 degrees before we pitch in the yeast. I do this by submerging the pot in a cold bathtub:

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I forgot to take pictures of the beer going from the pot into the primary fermentor bucket that I have. But I do have pictures of it going from the glass secondary fermenter to the keg. Here is the brew prior to siphoning it out:

BeforeSiphon.jpg
 
I know, it looks real orange, but this is actually a light beer that I made in the beginning of January 2004. Here is two pictures of me siphoning it out:

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Notice how light yellow it is going through the siphoning tube, despite the dark color in the glass carboy.

Now that I have two kegs, I needed to rig my kegging system to use the same CO2 tank to carbonate both of them. Here is a pic of the new T-connector I added to split the gas stream into two different lines:

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And here is a pic of the unfinished kegerator out in the garage. I still need to install my taps on the outside:

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Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for - the finished product, straight from the keg. This is my 'American Light' ale beer, which tastes almost like a lager. I drink numerous glasses of these every day:

FinishedProduct.jpg
 
I wish I had the space to do a keg setup, but I have to stick with bottles for now, which is a little easier for sharing outside the home.

only one hop set? I use hops at at least 3 different intervals of different types for aroma, mouthfeel, bitterness, etc.
 
only one hop set? I use hops at at least 3 different intervals of different types for aroma, mouthfeel, bitterness, etc.

I actually did throw those in at different intervals during the boil. In fact, you can see from that picture that I had already used 2/3's of the hops previously, with only a little left in the baggie.

I'm wasn't a huge fan of real hoppy beer in the past, but now that it's been a few years since those pictures were taken, I will begin making my brew with some more hoppiness to it. Man, I miss brewing....it's been too long but it takes a lot of work to sanitize all my old equipment that I keep putting it off.
 
That would be a great review except for the gay, penis and self fellatio references.
....yeah. I sure didn't appreciate the random references nor the pic.

B.B.S.

Like I said, I end up doing up doing stupid things when a camera is involved......but it was all in the name of a public service announcement. If putting myself in that uncompromising position would help just one poor soul from making those mistakes in the real world, then my work is complete. :D
 
That would be a great review except for the gay, penis and self fellatio references.
....yeah. I sure didn't appreciate the random references nor the pic.

B.B.S.

Like I said, I end up doing up doing stupid things when a camera is involved......but it was all in the name of a public service announcement. If putting myself in that uncompromising position would help just one poor soul from making those mistakes in the real world, then my work is complete. :D




*gasp* my eyes have been opened *drops beer bottle*

I will only drink out of glasses from now on, lest I look gay deep throating the bottle.


/not gay.
 
Pretty funny actually.

Sheesh, ya guys need to lighten up a little.
 
I thought it was freakin' hilarious. I almost did the soda spew on my computer screen....

I brewed in the house once...got sidetracked and it took me hours to clean the stove. Now I brew outside on the driveway where I can wash the mess up with hose.

You can't call yourself a real homebrewer until you've mopped the ceiling!
 
I thought it was freakin' hilarious. I almost did the soda spew on my computer screen....

I brewed in the house once...got sidetracked and it took me hours to clean the stove. Now I brew outside on the driveway where I can wash the mess up with hose.

You can't call yourself a real homebrewer until you've mopped the ceiling!

Does this count... ???

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:laugh:
 
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