Hands on! Instead of watching hubby, I brewed my very first own beer. A dark beer. My favorite one. 6.5% alcohol (wohoooo). Caramel & chocolate flavor (heavenly). „Anny‘s Porter“! Hmmmmm!
Mashing the malt and following hubby’s advice: „You can’t brew without having some inspiration“. Enjoying a craft beer while stirring the mashed malt. Since this is a rather long process (3x20minutes) you get a beer treat in between each. (That makes 3 and I wonder if that’s the motivation of very regular brew sessions. Lol).
Searching for the sugar (or in a brewers language: measuring how much sugar has been dissolved in the water).
Getting the hops ready (soon from our garden).
Cooling the beer & later adding the Bittering hops.
Filling the beer in its fermenter & adding yeast.
Now it’s time for the most important ingredient: time. About 14 days until ready.
Last step for the first session: Cleaning up (hubby’s job – thank you 🙂 ).
2 weeks later: fermenting process successfully finished (despite the rather cold temperature due to lacking heating oil).
Ready to go in bottles.
Adding sugar and waiting for the bubbles. Ladies produced beer getting pink lids.
A week later: excitement & first tasting. Cheers!
It’s like a dessert in a bottle. This is a rich, creamy beer. I am loving it! I would call this a huge success!
So much fun: Brewing the beer. Cooking & fermenting. Aging & bottling. The most fun part: drinking!
By the way, Porters originated in the UK and are identified by their dark color, a light roastiness, and a hint of molasses-like sweetness.
8 liters / 16 bottles. next job: taking care that hubby doesn’t drink it all. Lol. Cheers!
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