Red Ale. Ice bath and transfer to fermenter.

Red Ale. Boil for 60 min. Add hops at 55 and 5

And serve up some motivation.

Red Ale. Moved to fermentation chamber.

Had to make room.  Too much homebrew :-p.  Temp set to stay between 17-20 Celsius. 

Red Ale. Top up and read OG.

Added spring water to 5 gallons.  OG reading 1.055.  Higher than box desired OG.  Makes for higher ABV.

Grains being rinsed.

1/2 gallon to 170 set grains in water and strain bag.  Then add rinse back to wort.  Keep all we can.

Red Ale. Steeping. Heating rinse and LME.

Red Ale. Steep grains

Going to do it for 45 min not the recommended 20 @ 150-165 degrees.

Red Ale from Brewer's Best

Chocolate Brown Ale step 11

Transfer from carboy to bottling bucket.  Add chocolate flavoring & priming sugar and fill 52 bottles.  FG 1.022.

Chocolate Brown Ale. Step 10 ferment.

Transferring from pot to carboy fermenter.  Temp set to 17 degrees Celsius. 

Chocolate Brown Ale. Step 9 OG & pitch yeast

OG reading of 1.064. 

Chocolate Brown Ale. Step 9. Chill the wort

Chocolate Brown Ale steps 5,6 & 7 apply to this batch

Add the big bag of extract.

Chocolate Brown Ale. Step 3 bittering hops

60 min boil.  Off to clean other tools. 

Chocolate Brown Ale step 2 boil

5 minutes

Chocolate Brown Ale step 1 Steep grains

30 minutes.

Chocolate Brown Ale - Step 1 water

3 gallons spring water to 150 degrees.

Chocolate Brown Ale - the kit contents

Chocolate Brown Ale from San Antonio Homebrew Supply

Chocolate Brown ale up next

Bought a kit from Homebrew place on St Mary's today.