Here is the carboy with the cover over it. The cover was custom made by the lovely Debra. It is made from a fabric that blocks light from getting in the container and skunking the beer.
The evolution of my first foray into the world of homebrewing India Pale Ales is coming to a conclusion. If you somehow missed Part 1 and Part 2 in this series, make sure to check them out.
We’ve covered brewing, fermenting, and dry-hopping this beer. We just need to look at few pictures of the tail end of this tale, cover some last steps, and unveil the name this brew will have for our annual Septembeerfest celebration.
After the addition of the fresh hops, leaf hops and pellet hops to the beer, I swirled it around everyday and let it sit in the glass carboy for 9 days. During this time, a lot of the pellet hop material sank to the bottom, and most of the fresh and leaf hops stayed at the top.
My intention all along was to keg this brew and serve it at our Septembeerfest celebration on the 17th. As well at this one ended up turning out, I think it will go pretty fast at the party.
So, the beer is made and tastes great, it’s been filtered, kegged, and carbonated. The only thing it’s lacking is a name. I decided to go with a take off of one of my favorite metal albums of the 80′s. Hoperation: Mindcrime.
Overall, I’m extremely happy with how this beer turned out. I’ll definitely be trying another one of these next summer!
This is the beer in a glass straight from the carboy. You can see some particles floating in there. It's particles like this that the nylon bag is filtering out.
Here is a shot of the top of the carboy. Notice the fresh cascades and leaf hops floating above the beer.
This is the bottom of the carboy. Most of the small particles from the pellet hops ended up here.
This shot shows the siphon apparatus that I use. In front of the siphon is the nylon bag I used to filter out the large particles from the beer going into the keg.
This is me siphoning the beer from the carboy into the keg. I'm holding the nylon filter bag in my left hand inside the keg.
