freemanmh

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I'm sure many of you can relate to difficulty of waiting until your very first beer is completely conditioned and carbed and really ready to drink. I bottled my first batch on Monday, and it has been taunting me since. So when I went downstairs this morning to check the temps on the stuff I have fermenting now, I decided to put one in the fridge for tonight. Just one, just so I could check it, just so it would quit yelling at me every time I walked by.

So, knowing that it needs more time in the bottle to condition and carb properly, knowing that it needs to be chilled for longer than 8 hours before drinking, knowing that I've got some Lagunita Uncensored and Lakefront Wisconsite chilled and waiting to be consumed, I just opened my first ever homebrew that went grain to glass (well, extract to glass, but still) at my hands...

And it's absolutely amazing Patience is now back, sanity has returned, and I can now survive the next week or two while I let it finish conditioning. I definitely picked the right hobby

Copbrew133

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Congrats & enjoy.

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"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
Robert Pirsig (1948)

Qhrumphf

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Congrats! I still sample one of each of my beers at a week in the bottle and leave the rest to carb fully. As long as you understand that it's just less beer you'll have when it's fully carbed, conditioned, and ready to go, I see no harm in it.

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Up Next: English Barleywine, Quadrupel, Ordinary Bitter
Primary: Accidental Lambic, Saison, Tripel, Petite Saison
Secondary: (empty)
Bottled: Brett B. Tripel, Dubbel, Robust Porter, Black IPA, Cal Common, APA, ESB, Imperial Red, Oatmeal Stout, Tafelbier, Chili Pepper Smoked Porter(s)

pabloj13

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Congrats. It sounds like you already have your head on straight. Cheers.

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Kegged Two Hearted, Dragonmead Final Absolution
Bottled Robust porter, Founder's Breakfast Stout, Ommegawd Hellepin, Ed Wort's Apfelwein
RIP Snake Dog IPA, Biermuncher's OktoberFAST, Falconer's Flight IPA, Two-Hearted clone (Culturing Bell's Yeast), Noberon wheat, Skeeter Pee using dry yeast, Smooth Oatmeal Stout

Simple and easy wort aeration - Harvest yeast from your blowoff - Homebrew Spicy Mustard

davekippen

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I do the same thing - I have one at 1 week, then 2 weeks, then 3... As a new brewer, Its good experience for me to see how beers change with time. Some change a lot! And I dont mind that I have a few less "fully ready" beers at the end. I enjoy them all!

Good work on your first brew!

BronxBrew

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Now you can get another batch fermenting.

BrewChem

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Welcome to the obsession..! I always give in and have a bottle at the one-week mark so... you're good to go for batch #2..!

freemanmh

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I have an NB Shining Star Pale Ale in my 6gal BB that was brewed the day after I bottled this batch (Bavarian Hefeweizen, btw), as well as 2 2.5gal batches of a couple of APA recipes I found for experimenting with BIAB. Oh, and a batch of EdWort's Apfelwein in my 5gal BB.

You know what they say...fermenter space is a terrible thing to waste.

iambeer

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One way to not 'give in' to trying one early is to buy a lot of beer and/or brew a lot beer. You'll have so much beer that you won't remember this or that beer. A great way to justify getting a lot of beer. Works for me.

CBR250

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Oh yea! A little is good, more is better! I live and have almost died by that saying!