Looking for pointers. First timer mistakes?

First brew with a decent set up. I'm cooking up an Irish Red Ale and I want to know I anyone has some pointers on typical first brew mistakes. Thanks for any and all tips.

Yeah relax and drink a few beers while brewing and more importantly enjoy yourself!

But seriously make sure you have a plan for everything and sanatize everything.

Purchase and read http://www.howtobrew.com/

I assume it's an extract kit. Follow the instructions exact, monitor ferm temps best you can, sanitize every thing that touches beer like it's a tool used to operate on someone with, drink beer, have fun.

Also I have read the "how to brew" by Palmer.

Also read "The Joys Of Home brewing" http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060531053/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 Oh yea watch the temp on the fermenter.. try to keep it at 65-70 degrees or lower

The best thing you can do is to relax and enjoy the brew day. Have a few brews. Have a plan of attack for the brew. I like to write everything down that's going to happen during the boil in an outline. I also use a brew timer on phone so I don't miss any additions to the boil. The biggest bit of advice is to make sure you have good sanitary practices. If you have good sanitary practices, the worse thing that will happen is that you'll have beer to drink. Sanitation and proper fermentation are the biggest factors, in my opinion, to a successful beer.

Also, welcome to the forum!

Patience... Lot's of it.

Have fun! You will soon understand that on brew day something will go wrong. You can freakout, run in circles yelling,"ZOMG!, ZOMG!, ZOMG!" OR you can come to terms that sometimes this happens. Beer is REALLY hard to screw up. It may not be perfect but you will think it is anyway!

The best advice is: Start planning your second batch ASAP! Patience is much easier while you have a home brew in hand vs. drinking all the 1st batch and waiting for the second one to be done! aka pipeline.

Have fun!

First off, everything on here is a tip, especially the stickies at the top of each section of the forum, so read read read...I'm not gonna recreate 20,000 tips I've written over the years in this tread for you, but they haven't gone any where, they're all still here, so read.

And as to mistakes https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/wh...where-your-beer-still-turned-out-great-96780/

Thanks for all the tips! One day when my brew pub opens up there will be a cold one waiting for you!

bourbeusebrew said:

First brew with a decent set up. I'm cooking up an Irish Red Ale and I want to know I anyone has some pointers on typical first brew mistakes. Thanks for any and all tips.

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Tip #1- Either be of legal age, or at least smart enough to lie about your age when registering for a forum that requires this.

According to the rules you agreed to when you registered, "you must be of legal age to brew in the state and country in which you reside". If you're not, at least be smart enough to figure out what year you should have been born in to be 21.