Here is all my equipment, cleaned:
Here is the fermenter, all nicely sanitized by Star San (thats the bubbles on top):
Yeast and hops out and ready to go:
Me, ready to brew:
Just after boiling and adding in the DME:
After the initial boil off, added the wort and boiling for 60 minutes:
Preparing ice bath:
After 60 minutes, the wort in the ice bath:
Dumping 2 gallons of ice water and the wort and into the fermenter:
Hydrometer readings (looks to be around 1.056, around 60F):
Pitched yeast and capped (10/20/14 11:44 am):
A couple notes:
- Taking temperature measurements is awkward: I need to stick it close to the wort and risk contamination (from my hand, etc.)
- Cooling the wort with ice is awkward: I wish I had a wort chiller.
- I sanitized everything in the fermenter. I would have been easier to sanitize in another bucket (like my bottling bucket) so I wouldn't need to fish out the thermometer midway during cooling.
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