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Eric_Stephenson
Hello All,
First I just wanted to take a second and say Thank You. I have been lurking here for a month or two and even though I haven't participated all that much, I have learned a ton from you all!
Second, I brewed my first batch about a month ago and it's just about ready to drink!
I wanted something really easy for my first batch so with the help of the very knowledgeable people at Beer Crafters in Turnersville, NJ I chose a Munton's IPA.
When I got home, I dumped the bag of stuff and just looked at it all and thought "now what the heck am I supposed to do with all this?"
But then I looked at the recipe sheet that Jeff wrote up for me and it wasy easy!
I brewed it all up and ended up with an Original Gravity of 1.052
I watched it like a hawk and started getting worried after 3 or 4 days because there was no bubbling. After about 5 days I called Beer Crafters and they told me to get a gravity reading and that would tell me if it was working or what. I got a gravity of 1.009 and called them back.
It was finished!
So I moved it to the secondary (glass carboy) for another week or so. I bottled it about 12 days ago and tried a bottle about 5 days ago.
It tasted sooooo good! It was still a little flat but it took all the restraint I had to not drink a six pack of it!
I plan on transferring two six packs to the fridge on Saturday morining and probably enjoying a couple of them over the weekend. The rest I will probably wait another week or so to give it a little time to mature some more.
I haven't been idle waiting for that to finish, I have three more batches at various stages:
Irish Red: Bottled last sunday
Goosed Amber: Racked to secondary on sunday
Honey Lager: brewed on sunday
Just in case you want to read some more of my "experiments" check out http://www.learningtobrew.com that's my blog about my successes/failures/fun with homebrewing.
First I just wanted to take a second and say Thank You. I have been lurking here for a month or two and even though I haven't participated all that much, I have learned a ton from you all!
Second, I brewed my first batch about a month ago and it's just about ready to drink!
I wanted something really easy for my first batch so with the help of the very knowledgeable people at Beer Crafters in Turnersville, NJ I chose a Munton's IPA.
When I got home, I dumped the bag of stuff and just looked at it all and thought "now what the heck am I supposed to do with all this?"
But then I looked at the recipe sheet that Jeff wrote up for me and it wasy easy!
I brewed it all up and ended up with an Original Gravity of 1.052
I watched it like a hawk and started getting worried after 3 or 4 days because there was no bubbling. After about 5 days I called Beer Crafters and they told me to get a gravity reading and that would tell me if it was working or what. I got a gravity of 1.009 and called them back.
It was finished!
So I moved it to the secondary (glass carboy) for another week or so. I bottled it about 12 days ago and tried a bottle about 5 days ago.
It tasted sooooo good! It was still a little flat but it took all the restraint I had to not drink a six pack of it!
I plan on transferring two six packs to the fridge on Saturday morining and probably enjoying a couple of them over the weekend. The rest I will probably wait another week or so to give it a little time to mature some more.
I haven't been idle waiting for that to finish, I have three more batches at various stages:
Irish Red: Bottled last sunday
Goosed Amber: Racked to secondary on sunday
Honey Lager: brewed on sunday
Just in case you want to read some more of my "experiments" check out http://www.learningtobrew.com that's my blog about my successes/failures/fun with homebrewing.