So now the beer is bottled and I have to wait four weeks to try it. This is the downside to this hobby. No instant gratification.
I did taste the beer as I bottled it. It's similar to other microbrews that I've tried. I'll take it to the next Berks Homebrew Club meeting and see what feedback I get.
In the meantime, I'm drinking as much microbrew as I can, to get empty bottles for my next batch.
It's a tough job, but someone has to do it.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
What's Brewing?
Well, I finally started my first brew. It's in the primary fermenter now. Somewhere around Friday, I'll move it to the secondary fermenter.
I decided to start small for this first brew and made an extract kit of Full Sail Amber Ale that I ordered from Austin Homebrew Supply.
I did have to steep some specialty grains in addition to boiling the malt extract and hops, so it was more than just a boil, but not a lot more. By the end of an hour, I had 2 gallons of wort (non yeasted liquid)
Due to lack of equipment, I used a 2 gallon spaghetti pot for the grains and the extract boil, then diluted it with water in the fermenter. To chill down the wort, I made up some sanitized ice bricks in some freezer containers the night before and then added them to the water before adding the wort.
To aerate the wort, I attached my DAN (scuba) oxygen bottle to a 6 inch aquarium stone and let the oxygen bubble through the wort. I used my large wooden stirring paddle to keep the wort moving over the stone.
Next week, I'll publish an update and in a month, a full report including brew club feed back.
I decided to start small for this first brew and made an extract kit of Full Sail Amber Ale that I ordered from Austin Homebrew Supply.
I did have to steep some specialty grains in addition to boiling the malt extract and hops, so it was more than just a boil, but not a lot more. By the end of an hour, I had 2 gallons of wort (non yeasted liquid)
Due to lack of equipment, I used a 2 gallon spaghetti pot for the grains and the extract boil, then diluted it with water in the fermenter. To chill down the wort, I made up some sanitized ice bricks in some freezer containers the night before and then added them to the water before adding the wort.
To aerate the wort, I attached my DAN (scuba) oxygen bottle to a 6 inch aquarium stone and let the oxygen bubble through the wort. I used my large wooden stirring paddle to keep the wort moving over the stone.
Next week, I'll publish an update and in a month, a full report including brew club feed back.
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