First Glass of my Home Brew...

Well it's my second batch.... , the first is still in secondary...
But it's my first glass... And now I'm working on my second...
It's a wit/wheat with grains.... I just got CO2, pumped it up to 30#, rolled the keg for 5 min on it's side...(I know, I know, patience...) But had to test the lines and make sure I was all set up... I never thought semi-cool flat beer could taste like this...

Damn it's not what I was expecting ( I was thinking Dunkel weiss-recipe was from LHBS and called"wit weizen whatever...") But seems more like a full bodied Belgian Wit .... Well it's beer and it is not fully cooled or carbed yet, but dang it is smooth and tasty... I just dropped the Keezer temp to 40 from 50 and couldn't wait... I was worried with the heavy alcohol fumes from opening up the fermenting bucket to keg, but with kegging and cooling it's so smooth I can't believe it's a 5.3% ALC brew...

Dude why did it take me so long to find home-brewing? Just had to share the joy with all the frantic posts by us newbs... Thanks to HBT'ers for your patience and guidance.. Y'all are a valuable resource :rockin:

Enjoy don't tell your friends or you will be dry before your next batch is ready!

Congrats on your first brew! Can't beat that feeling and it only gets better from here. Now you better start looking for a second job...

Way To Go! Enjoy your new obsession.

Woo Hoooo!! Congrats man!! Awesome feeling, huh?

purechaos said:

Enjoy don't tell your friends or you will be dry before your next batch is ready!

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I don't know if it's a blessing or curse that none of friends like beer and the beer that they do drink on occasion is BMC. Yeah there is more beer for me but I have only 1-2 people to give me feedback and they are hardely around. Sounds like I need to take some more anti-bi#tch pills now.

Congrats, opening my first bottle & hearing that initial hissss was an awesome experience!

Good luck!

purechaos said:

Enjoy don't tell your friends or you will be dry before your next batch is ready!

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+1 to this. It's so depressing not to have any homebrew left while you're waiting on a batch. It's even more depressing/frustrating when all your friends don't return your bottles and you have to wait and extra few days to bottle. I'm going to start making them leave a deposit. Do you have any idea how long it took me to choke down all those Grolsch?!

SmugMug said:

It's even more depressing/frustrating when all your friends don't return your bottles and you have to wait and extra few days to bottle.

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My wife loves Magners and a few of the commercial beers I like have pop tops so I accumulate bottles quite rapidly.

I will admit, I'm a bit cheap when it comes to bottles. I went on Ebay and bout tons of the old Grolsch bottles with ceramic tops (rather than the newer style plastic bottles) and I never give those out since you rarely get them back. I probably have about 500 12oz bottles downstairs waiting for bottling day.

Just a quick tip on bottles (yes i know im a n00b just after starting my first batch).

Most imported beer bottles in bars and pubs dont get sent back to the distributer, there just thrown in a recycling bin and smashed etc.
I went down my local the other day and asked if i could have 40 or so bottles in a few weeks time. No problem

arcto said:

Just a quick tip on bottles (yes i know im a n00b just after starting my first batch).

Most imported beer bottles in bars and pubs dont get sent back to the distributer, there just thrown in a recycling bin and smashed etc.
I went down my local the other day and asked if i could have 40 or so bottles in a few weeks time. No problem

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Apparently there are quite a few homebrewers in my area. The few bars I go to have all promised their empties to various people. Dagnabbit.