SwillyBilly
Well-Known Member
Hello everyone!
Well, a week ago today I brewed my first home brew ever. It's a Brewer's Best Scottish Ale. The brew went off without any serious mishaps (no dogs drinking it, no thermometers breaking, no boilovers). The only "bad" part was how long it took to get boiling on my glass cooktop. Anyway, I just wanted to post some observations I made during the week in hopes that someone will point out if I did anything wrong.
1) Put into primary on 2/27/2010, temp was about 70*. O.G. was 1.0356 as best as I can tell.
2) Sat it in the guest bathroom where the outside fermenter temp was about 70* all week.
3) Bubble rate after 24 hours was about 1 every 3 seconds. Every 24 hours thereafter it was 3 minutes, 5-7, 5-7, 5-7, then 11-12 last night (3/5/2010).
4) Today I opened it up and moved it to the secondary carboy. The specific gravity before moving was about 1.0146 (this and the O.G. add 0.0016 to account for the 70* temp instead of 60*).
As far as I know, things seem to be going ok. The beer looked darker than I expected. The kit says amber brown but it looked a bit darker (although it looked lighter in the siphoning tube so I dunno).
Do any of you more experienced brewers see any mishaps I may have made? I expect to leave it in the secondary carboy at least two weeks. In any case, I'm having fun and looking forward to bottling day. I'm enjoying reading the forum here too.
Thanks!
Bill
Well, a week ago today I brewed my first home brew ever. It's a Brewer's Best Scottish Ale. The brew went off without any serious mishaps (no dogs drinking it, no thermometers breaking, no boilovers). The only "bad" part was how long it took to get boiling on my glass cooktop. Anyway, I just wanted to post some observations I made during the week in hopes that someone will point out if I did anything wrong.
1) Put into primary on 2/27/2010, temp was about 70*. O.G. was 1.0356 as best as I can tell.
2) Sat it in the guest bathroom where the outside fermenter temp was about 70* all week.
3) Bubble rate after 24 hours was about 1 every 3 seconds. Every 24 hours thereafter it was 3 minutes, 5-7, 5-7, 5-7, then 11-12 last night (3/5/2010).
4) Today I opened it up and moved it to the secondary carboy. The specific gravity before moving was about 1.0146 (this and the O.G. add 0.0016 to account for the 70* temp instead of 60*).
As far as I know, things seem to be going ok. The beer looked darker than I expected. The kit says amber brown but it looked a bit darker (although it looked lighter in the siphoning tube so I dunno).
Do any of you more experienced brewers see any mishaps I may have made? I expect to leave it in the secondary carboy at least two weeks. In any case, I'm having fun and looking forward to bottling day. I'm enjoying reading the forum here too.
Thanks!
Bill