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10-31-2007, 12:50 AM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 6
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First Brew a Success
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I started my first brew in early September. I used a Brew House Pale Ale kit. I started to drink the beer after being in bottles for only one week, it was my first brew and I was impatient. The beer has now been in bottles for over three weeks and it tastes dramatically better than it did at 1 week. The beer tasted unpleasantly bitter at 1 week, the hops were overpowering the beer. The bitterness has now changed into a subtle more enjoyable hop flavour.
A note to everyone who is impatient on their first brew, beer improves a great deal in a matter of weeks.
After using the Brew House kit with success, I'm going to try out a nut brown extract with steeping grains. Completly addicted to homebrew.
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10-31-2007, 02:22 AM
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Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Old Forge,PA
Posts: 34
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Congrats!
I'm transferring my first batch of Nut Brown to bottles this weekend. I'm getting a little anxious to try so I'll have to grab a case of good stuff from the distributor to hold me over.
Enjoy.
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10-31-2007, 02:52 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 6,887
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gratz!
everyone drinks their first batch when its way too young.
most everyone gets addicted too 
welcome!
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Malkore
Primary: English Mild
On tap: Pale Ale, Lancelot's Wheat, English Brown Ale, Steam Beer, HoovNuts IPA
Bottled: MOAM, Braggot, Raspberry Melomel, Merlot, Apfelwein, Pyment, Sweet mead, Cabernet
Gal in 2009: 27, Gal in 2010: 34, Gal in 2011: 13, Gal in 2012: 10
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10-31-2007, 03:24 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Sin City, NV
Posts: 245
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Originally Posted by malkore
gratz!
everyone drinks their first batch when its way too young.
most everyone gets addicted too
welcome! |
Guilty! I didn't know how much better it got by letting it age. My IPA that I brewed in September is just starting to come into it's prime
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Sündestadt Brauerei
Primary: Apfelwein w/ fructose, Apfelwein w/sucrose
Aging: Matt's Mega Cider, Raspberry wine, Unfiltered Apple Cider
Bottled: IPA, Hefeweizen, Magic Hat #9 clone, CCA, Apfelwein, Panty Dropping Apple Cider
Kegged: Belgian White PM, Orfy's Hob Goblin
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10-31-2007, 06:51 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Cincinnati OH
Posts: 1,641
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All you need to do now is save up all your change in a jar to start stocking up on fermenters..... since you'll be brewing more often. Then, eventually you'll find yourself falling behind in transferring and bottling, instead of being impatient. Congrats! 
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10-31-2007, 10:57 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Apex, NC
Posts: 1,036
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Congratulations! My first batch has been in bottles for about a week and I'm already eyeing them greedily. The only thing I've found to curb my impatience is to brew more. I've been trying to brew every other week to get the pipeline filled. I figure once I have drinkable beer in bottles, one in secondary, one in primary and one in the planning stages the temptation won't be so strong to drink my beer too early.
Chad
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10-31-2007, 06:54 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Clinton, MA
Posts: 623
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Congratulations! I am getting ready for my first batch and it always helps to hear some good stories instead of the bad ones. .
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10-31-2007, 11:56 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Southern VT
Posts: 1,530
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I am guilty, since it is so much fun to see how the beer changes so much over time ...
Yes - 3 weeks is an amazing difference for the taste ... I have a winter warmer which will take 9 weeks ... I am thinking 3 in primary, 1 in secondary, then 5 in the bottle...
This hobby shows the wonder of process over product
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Windham, VT
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