Bottling Day

First siphoned the beer from the fermenting bucket via racking cane and tubing into bottling bucket.

Took a small sample. Looks like beer, tastes like beer, must be BEER!!!

Finally all bottled, 2 weeks to wait for final bottle conditioning, and then FREE BEER!!!!

Keeping Cool

The temperature of the fermenting bucket kept rising. The solution I have come up with is wrapping the bucket with a wet towel and indirectly blowing air from a fan to wick away the temperature. It has worked very well the temp has dropped to around 70F, which hopefully will suffice. Bubbling has started to taper off so maybe mid-week I will start bottling!

Bubbles

After more than 12 hours we have bubbles going through the airlock. I didn't have the airlock in tight enough at first, for fear of displacing the o-ring seal. But now its doing its thing, check back in a week.

Brew Day

Boiled the wort, changed the hops to cascade to get that classic American hoppiness to my amber.

 

And finally everything's in the fermenter, though I'm a little worried its hotter than I thought it would be. 

Hoping over night the temp will drop a bit, a couple of degress is all that's needed

Damages Brewery

Its 25 odd years since I last gave everyone alcohol poisoning with my home brewed barley wine (sorry Rich and Nhoj), I figured it's time to give brewing another go.

My basic brewing equipment kit, with amber ingredient recipe just showed up. I've prepped an under utilized closet, and now I'm almost ready go.

May have to buy some extra hops to get the ibu's up a bit though.

....and I dont think Ive enough empty bottles yet, drink!!!!