Andy and family brew beer
Dennis invited Andy up from Richmond to brew some beer with the kit his sister gave him a couple years back. He and Katie and Tom came out for the occasion. We had a nice spaghetti dinner Friday evening and stayed up chatting till after midnight. Saturday morning, Dennis and Andy bottled a batch of of homebrew Dennis made January 26th, then went on to brew some beer with Andy’s kit making some additions and modifications. Pictures by Mary and photo commentary by Dennis.
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- We fill each bottle with photons, to help sterilize them. The photons are removed at bottling.
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- Releasing our inner Heisenberg.
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- A pound of crushed chocolate malt steeps in the foreground. It will add some body, color and richness.
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- Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalt extract. Nothin’ like it.
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- A pound of local honey to bulk up the Irish Ale kit, which was designed to make a short batch.
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- We started by draining beer from all these bottles into a 5-gallon carboy… (HA! j/k…We started by bottling the all-grain brew from late January, to get a feel for the whole end-to-end process.)
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- Beer connoisseuse, Wine maker, newly-fledged brewer. Wort cooling in the carboy, waiting for yeast pitching.
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- “…license and registration, m’aam?” “JUST A MINUTE!”
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- Any motorcyclist recognizes that posture…
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- Brewed, chilled and pitched. By late that evening the krausen has already formed and the beer is bubbling steadily.