First Brew Day  
Flavoring grains, malt extract cans, hops, and yeast.
Flavoring grains, malt extract cans, hops, and yeast.

Muslin bags full of flavoring hops steeping.
Muslin bags full of flavoring hops steeping.

The liquid malt extract in all its glory.
The liquid malt extract in all its glory.

3.5 pound can of liquid malt extract....really really thick and nasty.
3.5 pound can of liquid malt extract....really really thick and nasty.

Here's the brew pot full of hot wort after the malt extract is added.
Here's the brew pot full of hot wort after the malt extract is added.

The boiling wort after the hops have been added.  It stinks quite a bit at that point.
The boiling wort after the hops have been added. It stinks quite a bit at that point.

The packet of dry yeast waiting to be tossed in with the cooled wort in the fermenter....should have made a batch of starter yeast.
The packet of dry yeast waiting to be tossed in with the cooled wort in the fermenter....should have made a batch of starter yeast.

The primary fermentation bucket sitting in my closet with 5 gallons of wort becoming beer.
The primary fermentation bucket sitting in my closet with 5 gallons of wort becoming beer.

Here's the airlock where the CO2 bubbles out of the fermenter.
Here's the airlock where the CO2 bubbles out of the fermenter.

Here's the trub as it sat in the bottom of the fermenter.  Yummy.
Here's the trub as it sat in the bottom of the fermenter. Yummy.

Here's a cup of the 1/4 of a gallon of trub I scooped out of the fermenter.
Here's a cup of the 1/4 of a gallon of trub I scooped out of the fermenter.

Here's the bag of priming sugar (to carbonate the bottles) and the caps to be used on bottling day.
Here's the bag of priming sugar (to carbonate the bottles) and the caps to be used on bottling day.

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