My husband has spent the last few months building a home brewery system which he has detailed in full on his site. Finally this last Wednesday he was ready for a full brew and I hung around to help and take pictures.

We made the Vanilla Porter recipe from Dry Dock Brewing in Aurora, CO which is an amazing beer. They have made the Urca Vanilla Porter All Grain recipe available here.

First there were 20ish pounds of grain

And hot water

And these had to be added to the mash tun

and boiled and boiled, and then drained

and then the liquid portion is transferred to the boil kettle

which is when this starts to look like beer.

There's a lot more to it, but he's probably better at explaining that. Now, it ferments for 3 weeks. Somewhere along the way is when the vanilla beans will go in and it will hopefully be delicious.