After many, many moons (well, weeks, at least) of reading and thinking and wondering and pulling triggers, I finally got beermaking kit.
And then I brewed a beer.
Three weeks in the fermenter, and today into bottles.
I started with seven, maybe seven-and-a-half gallons in the brewpot, and wound up getting almost five exactly into the fermenter. In hindsight, I think I should've topped it off; I wound up losing about half a gallon during bottling, mostly because I couldn't get the last inch or so out of the fermenter without hauling lots of yeast along with it.
End result: two dozen full, 22oz bottles. Plus one, mostly full bottle; we'll see if that one actually comes through or not. So hopefully, in a couple of weeks I'll have a beer that's at least halfway decent. I'm excited! The kit, which came with my equipment, is a rather generic "light ale" whose ABV should be about 3.9%, if I read the gravities correctly. We'll see...
Turns out that beer is easier to brew than I always figured. But it sure takes longer than I expected!
And then I brewed a beer.
Three weeks in the fermenter, and today into bottles.
I started with seven, maybe seven-and-a-half gallons in the brewpot, and wound up getting almost five exactly into the fermenter. In hindsight, I think I should've topped it off; I wound up losing about half a gallon during bottling, mostly because I couldn't get the last inch or so out of the fermenter without hauling lots of yeast along with it.
End result: two dozen full, 22oz bottles. Plus one, mostly full bottle; we'll see if that one actually comes through or not. So hopefully, in a couple of weeks I'll have a beer that's at least halfway decent. I'm excited! The kit, which came with my equipment, is a rather generic "light ale" whose ABV should be about 3.9%, if I read the gravities correctly. We'll see...
Turns out that beer is easier to brew than I always figured. But it sure takes longer than I expected!
