MTBREWDOG
Well-Known Member
Hi all,
I am new to the forums and also new to home brewing. Yesterday I brewed up my first beer batch ever. I decided to jump right into the AG due to my background in the sciences and chemistry. The beer I choose is a Scotch Irish Strong Ale (Wee Heavy). So far my only real mistake was in calulating how much water I needed for my sparge. I got 4 gallons of wort vs. 5 gallons as what should have been made. Not a huge deal.
So far I'm loving life. It's day two and the fermenting activity is going well. I'm getting some fairly agressive bubbling in my fermentation bucket. My strating gravity reading was 1.061. Today my reading was already 1.042. I'm pretty pleased with that. The specific gravity I'm trying to achieve is 1.018-1.030. I haven't found any good literature as to when to move my wort from my primary to my secondary fermenter. I got my recipe from BeerTools. It didn't have a whole lot of advice there. Just a list of ingredients and that was all.
When are most of you doing your transfer?
Will changing my batch size change my fermentation times?
Thanks all! I'm looking forward to posting updates to my brewing projects.
Cheers!
Joe
I am new to the forums and also new to home brewing. Yesterday I brewed up my first beer batch ever. I decided to jump right into the AG due to my background in the sciences and chemistry. The beer I choose is a Scotch Irish Strong Ale (Wee Heavy). So far my only real mistake was in calulating how much water I needed for my sparge. I got 4 gallons of wort vs. 5 gallons as what should have been made. Not a huge deal.
So far I'm loving life. It's day two and the fermenting activity is going well. I'm getting some fairly agressive bubbling in my fermentation bucket. My strating gravity reading was 1.061. Today my reading was already 1.042. I'm pretty pleased with that. The specific gravity I'm trying to achieve is 1.018-1.030. I haven't found any good literature as to when to move my wort from my primary to my secondary fermenter. I got my recipe from BeerTools. It didn't have a whole lot of advice there. Just a list of ingredients and that was all.
When are most of you doing your transfer?
Will changing my batch size change my fermentation times?
Thanks all! I'm looking forward to posting updates to my brewing projects.
Cheers!
Joe