Jim O'Neil's photos with the keyword: Beer

I spent most of yesterday brewing a batch of beer. This is the grain bill, what went in to making 6 gallons of ale.

My little friend and neighbor, Mariko, was a great help stirring the mash, etc.

The mash is finished and laudered, the hops are added and the wort is boiling nicely.

This is a shot from yesterday, Sunday, Brewday. This is the mash, the malted barley held at a temperature of around 145° F. for an hour to convert the starches in to sugars. In about a week now, it will be beer ready to bottle or keg, 6 gallons of my White Nights Stout.

Friends visiting from Japan, summer parties planned, I better get busy making some beer! Here's the grain bill. This shows the grains, etc used for this style of ale.

I'd decided what beer I'll make, worked out the grain bill, hung up the steel yard and am ready to weigh out the malt.

Now the barley has been weighed and is being milled, if you look close you can see the milled barley malt dropping in to the tray below.

This is 50 pounds (23 kg.) of 2 row malted barley, the base grain for many beers and ales. Enough gain to make around 25 gallons or 95 liters of beer. No, that's not dirt or dust visible on the container, it's barley flour. :-)