The initial water is brought to 163F

Bobby's homemade manifold for draining of the wort (water with grain sugars)

Bobby pours the grains

Bobby makes sure the grains are level (plus they're just fun to play with)

Bobby explains the process

A schnoodle mohawk

Adding the hot water to the grains

Stirring the grains to be sure the water penetrates to the bottom

Cute puppy break

After an hour, the first of the wort is sampled

And recirculated until it comes out free of grains

Wort is drained into the boiling pot

A layer of aluminum foil to keep the grains from being disturbed as more water is poured in

Cute puppy break!

Adding the second round of water

Draining more wort into the boiling pot

Bobby dumps the spent grains

Then discovers that he dumped the manifold too

Biodegrade!

The hops in proud array

Boiling the wort

Bobby lectures the class

Bobby keeps a watchful vigil on his boiling beer

The boiled wort is drained into the fermenting pail

Uh oh, leaks!

The wort is passed through a clever cooling apparatus, consisting of a copper pipe inside a garden hose. The wort runs through the copper pipe, and water is run through the garden hose to absorb the heat from the wort

The result is cool wort at the other end

Bobby and Jason get the last of the wort out of the boiling pot

Bobby adds the yeast

Capped with an airlock to let out the CO2 released during fermentation. Now we play the waiting game.

MEAD!!?