Cant i get a ohhhh yeah!

lazarus0530 · Mar 11, 2011

Just pop'd open my second batch it was a kit brew (so sue me!) I got here in north east Pa from key stone brew. It's an eba . I never had an eba and let me tell ya something I'm in love with it. It has almost creamy feeling to it at the end. I couldn't of done it with out you guys really the tips you gave where great. This may be the one guys! This could be the future of my kegging at least one of them. I'm bragging but I'm telling ya I'm going to be the $hit this weekend.

beninan · Mar 11, 2011

nope, because you used a kit....

Kidding! Ohhhh Yeah! <--there you go.

there's nothing wrong with using a kit. It's the same as if you were to go out and buy all the ingredients individually to make the same thing, except someone has already assembled it for you. If kits made bad beer, would people buy them?

bmanbrew · Mar 12, 2011

Nice! Have one on me. My mouth is watering from waiting for my first batch sit in primary.

Enjoy!!

wonderbread23 · Mar 12, 2011

What is an 'eba'?

JustinHorton · Mar 12, 2011

bmanbrew said:
Nice! Have one on me. My mouth is watering from waiting for my first batch sit in primary.

Enjoy!!

That's my current dilemma also.

Congrats on a successful brew!! :mug:

ENS · Mar 12, 2011

congrats, but
yeah, I wanna know what an eba is too.

SankePankey · Mar 12, 2011

Here ya go!

NWAleDad · Mar 12, 2011

i must admit, i'm a little jealous...my first two batches are sitting in the fermenters at the moment. Congrats on your first beer! enjoy. :rockin:

ENS · Mar 12, 2011

no shame in brewing from kits. There are some excellent kits out there. There is always tweaking kits too.

I've brewed 10 kits so far, just bottled a cream ale and #8 trappist. I have two kits in waiting, German Alt and peach hefeweizen.

CousinDave · Mar 12, 2011

I'm jealous too. My first batch has at least another week to go in the bottle and my second batch is in the fermenter.
The wait has been excruciating.

Gfunk · Mar 12, 2011

Just tried 2nd batch on Thursday, an Irish red, hella good! Was also a kit. My only teacher on brewing was HBT.

Indo_China · Mar 12, 2011

I too am waiting however, I did get a growler filled of some kick arse stout from Williamsport, PA to help me hold over.

NWAleDad · Mar 12, 2011

Gfunk said:
Just tried 2nd batch on Thursday, an Irish red, hella good! Was also a kit. My only teacher on brewing was HBT.

Do you need any other:rockin:

unionrdr · Mar 12, 2011

Congrats on yer brew! I'm still waiting for my 2nd to finish primary (almost 3 weeks!). But,my 1st I started brewing 1/30 was finally ready last night. It is a Cooper's OS lager kit I brewed straight up just to establish a base line for color,flavor,head retention,etc. My pale ale is an extension of that with a lot of tweaking. here's a pic of the OS lager:
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss71/unionrdr/family%20fun/PICT0001.jpg
Dang,that's purty...PS-it's also 5.3%ABV!

NWAleDad · Mar 12, 2011

Excellent pic! and never thought i would say this to another man but..nice head

windbreaker123 · Mar 12, 2011

ohhhh yeah! I still use kits once in a while nothing wrong with that. Congrats and good luck. Save one for me!

unionrdr · Mar 12, 2011

I was hoping to save a few for my birthday the end of the month. Not sure if I can,but it would be cool to get a couple of us together & bbq,beer,bday...I wish my pale ale would be ready by then?...

lazarus0530 · Mar 12, 2011

wonderbread23 said:
What is an 'eba'?

Is an English bitter ale ...I myself never heard of it either until I brewed it. It almost like a cross between a amber beer and a Sam Adams.

FifteenTen · Mar 12, 2011

I too am jelous. My first batch has been in primary for five days now. Its a hefe extract. Thought I'd start with a beer thats supposed to be cloudy. I'm so anxious I was putting my nose to the air lock and snorting the co2 as it bubbled out. It was wonderful, but alas, my yeast are getting sleepy and I'm not bubbling so often now. I'm kinda like an expetant father in the waiting room now. I've already considered buying a second fermentor. Have to let the wife calm down after the initial investment though.

unionrdr · Mar 12, 2011

FifteenTen said:
I too am jelous. My first batch has been in primary for five days now. Its a hefe extract. Thought I'd start with a beer thats supposed to be cloudy. I'm so anxious I was putting my nose to the air lock and snorting the co2 as it bubbled out. It was wonderful, but alas, my yeast are getting sleepy and I'm not bubbling so often now. I'm kinda like an expetant father in the waiting room now. I've already considered buying a second fermentor. Have to let the wife calm down after the initial investment though.

RDWHAHB! Wait 'till she tastes that first one. Women generally like wheat beers. Mine seriously loves The Cooper's OS lager I made. Just be patient,sanitize,maintain the right temps,& let the yeast do all the clean up in primary. Mine was in primary for 12 days. Bottled 3 weeks,then the fridge for 5 days.
You saw how that looked. I posted a description of the brew,but put in AG & partial mash by mistake. Like a mod to move it either here,or extract brewing. Shoulda had some coffee before messing with uploading,etc.

supermoth · Mar 12, 2011

You used a kit, but everyone else just goes to the liquor store. Who's the superstar now?!

shadows69 · Mar 12, 2011

Just brewed an EBA from a Best Brew Kit using Wyeast 1056 instead of the Dry yeast that came with it. I used this instead as I didn't want it to go bad. In the cooling stage now. Using a starter so will see how she does.

Jbloader · Mar 12, 2011

supermoth said:
You used a kit, but everyone else just goes to the liquor store. Who's the superstar now?!

QUOTE OF THE DAY!! :rockin:

abrdnck · Mar 13, 2011

FifteenTen said:
I too am jelous. My first batch has been in primary for five days now. Its a hefe extract. Thought I'd start with a beer thats supposed to be cloudy. I'm so anxious I was putting my nose to the air lock and snorting the co2 as it bubbled out. It was wonderful, but alas, my yeast are getting sleepy and I'm not bubbling so often now. I'm kinda like an expetant father in the waiting room now. I've already considered buying a second fermentor. Have to let the wife calm down after the initial investment though.

Fermentors are pretty cheap, and you can always find them on kijiji or craigslist. I bought a couple of better bottles today from kijiji, and when I picked them up the guy's neighbour was offering to give me some glass carboys and a bottle tree. Sweet deal!

lazarus0530 · Mar 13, 2011

shadows69 said:
Just brewed an EBA from a Best Brew Kit using Wyeast 1056 instead of the Dry yeast that came with it. I used this instead as I didn't want it to go bad. In the cooling stage now. Using a starter so will see how she does.

Let me know. My brother and myself drank a case of this last night. We loved it . Now unto my next homebrew judge my dad .

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