escobar090
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Hello to everyone, glad i found out about this site, its just great.
I got a couple of questions i hope you guys can help me with, prior to my first batch I'm hoping to brew in a week or so, they're all random, and have nothing to do with each other but anyways:
1) If i were to brew a beer which it only has one type of hops, do i only add it to the boil kettle the minute it starts boiling and that's it? Or do i add 3 times for aroma, bitterness and flavour, at 60, 15, and 1 minutes as usual? as if i would do it with 2 o 3 types of hops.
2) Do i bottle the beer directly from the fermenter or is there a step I'm missing?, getting the beer clearer for instance?
3) Lets say my final gravity reading should be of 1,015 and only a couple of day have passed, 3 or 4, and the gravity is in fact near 1,015, lets say 1,017, does that mean that the fermentation process is almost over? or does it actually needs to ferment for about 2 to 3 weeks?, why is that?
4) I dont know much about pouring sugar to the wort before bottling, how's that?, I watched a video when a guy poured a teaspoon of some kind of sugar before bottling, is that the same as pouring X teaspoons of sugar (equal to the numbers of bottles you want) to the fermented beer?
5) Different types of sugar have any effect on the flavor or only to the fermentation process? For instance, if i want want a honey flavoured beer, when in the process do i need to add it?
6) How about the volume of water in each stage of the brewing process, mash, wort, sparge, and boiling, if i want a final result of 5 gallons of beer, whats the volume of water needed in those previous processes?
Well, that's it, hope you guys can help me,
Thanks in advance
I got a couple of questions i hope you guys can help me with, prior to my first batch I'm hoping to brew in a week or so, they're all random, and have nothing to do with each other but anyways:
1) If i were to brew a beer which it only has one type of hops, do i only add it to the boil kettle the minute it starts boiling and that's it? Or do i add 3 times for aroma, bitterness and flavour, at 60, 15, and 1 minutes as usual? as if i would do it with 2 o 3 types of hops.
2) Do i bottle the beer directly from the fermenter or is there a step I'm missing?, getting the beer clearer for instance?
3) Lets say my final gravity reading should be of 1,015 and only a couple of day have passed, 3 or 4, and the gravity is in fact near 1,015, lets say 1,017, does that mean that the fermentation process is almost over? or does it actually needs to ferment for about 2 to 3 weeks?, why is that?
4) I dont know much about pouring sugar to the wort before bottling, how's that?, I watched a video when a guy poured a teaspoon of some kind of sugar before bottling, is that the same as pouring X teaspoons of sugar (equal to the numbers of bottles you want) to the fermented beer?
5) Different types of sugar have any effect on the flavor or only to the fermentation process? For instance, if i want want a honey flavoured beer, when in the process do i need to add it?
6) How about the volume of water in each stage of the brewing process, mash, wort, sparge, and boiling, if i want a final result of 5 gallons of beer, whats the volume of water needed in those previous processes?
Well, that's it, hope you guys can help me,
Thanks in advance