DanS
Member
Hi all, I just finished the first steps of brewing my first beer, i'll explain what i did step by step and i just want to make sure it sounds like im on the right track.
I purchased a john bull wheat beer, beer kit and a john bull amber malt extract. I had to boil them in a gallon of water which ended up having to be in two pots due to a close call with a boil over. i then (after sanitizing everything THOROUGHLY!) poured three gallons of bottled water into a glass carboy, then added the boiled wort (At least i think its wort) into the three gallons of clean water. Let it cool, then i got a hydrometer reading of 1.04, then i added the ale yeast and put a cap on the carboy with a tube coming out into a glass jar for anything that ferments out. Does this sound right to everyone, or is there something else i should be doing, it almost seemed too easy. Any comments would be great, and a question, do i keep pouring the brew into the hydrometer flask to keep getting hydrometer readings as im going, i hate to be wasting precious beer.
I purchased a john bull wheat beer, beer kit and a john bull amber malt extract. I had to boil them in a gallon of water which ended up having to be in two pots due to a close call with a boil over. i then (after sanitizing everything THOROUGHLY!) poured three gallons of bottled water into a glass carboy, then added the boiled wort (At least i think its wort) into the three gallons of clean water. Let it cool, then i got a hydrometer reading of 1.04, then i added the ale yeast and put a cap on the carboy with a tube coming out into a glass jar for anything that ferments out. Does this sound right to everyone, or is there something else i should be doing, it almost seemed too easy. Any comments would be great, and a question, do i keep pouring the brew into the hydrometer flask to keep getting hydrometer readings as im going, i hate to be wasting precious beer.