As some of you will know, I have been trying my hand at brewing my own BEER from time to time. I have decided to brew yet another Stout!! Above you can see my equipment and the ingredients, which is very basic!!
First of all you mix all the grains and put them in one giant tea bag!! The giant tea bag is the submerged into the hot water for 90 minutes. In the photo below you can see the bag inside the urn!!
After the process is completed, the water temperature is increased to boiling point. I added half the hops after 15 minutes and the rest after 45 minutes, and boiled the mix for an hour.
The hops is added in a smaller bag, you can see the hops and the bag in the photo below.
The wort is then cooled down and poured into the fermenting bucket, with the yeast added to the mix!! This is then left to ferment. After fermenting the beer is bottled, and left for another 3 weeks, before it is ready for drinking.
After all the waiting the time has finally come to test the newly brewed beer!! When opening the bottle the beer erupted like a volcano, with the foam just keeping to come out of the bottle!! I was visiting my brother and we made quite a mess with the beer all over the floor, luckily we were outside, busy with a good old braai!!
Below you can see the lamb ribs on the fire!!
Having been caught out by the explosive nature of this beer, we came prepared for the second try, and asked the wives for some plastic bowls to open the beers in, below you can see the result, lots of foam, but no mess!!
My brother and I made the best of the situation and drank the salvaged beer straight out of the bowls!! The beer tasted great and I was really happy with the taste!!
I made some inquiries with some local home brewers about my foaming problem, and they recon that I did not let the beer ferment long enough and bottled it before the fermentation was completed, leading to more fermentation in the bottle, which caused to much CO2 in the beer!! I will keep this in mind when I do my next brew.
I calculated the alcohol content to be 4.9%, with which I am also happy. I am still looking for a name for my beer, I think Volcano should feature somewhere in the name!!
This is my entry for the #beersaturday challenge by 
I hope you enjoyed the post as much as I enjoyed writing it.
The photos, were taken by me, with my iPhone, at my brother's house, in Pretoria, South Africa.
