billnad
New Member
first time poster here, am i ever excited to find a great place to learn aobut the craft of brewing beer.
I have made one batch of beer with a Barons brew kit (mexican beer) and now am making my second batch (Dutch Lager). The first batch I made was not great after two weeks in the bottle but seemed good to me after four weeks. I have found now in this second go round that when moving the brew into the glass carboy that some of the grey muck that I put in at starting of the kit has transfered over. I will again try to make sure that I do not extract that to the bottles but as I move again into the primary fermenter I am sure that I can leave this behind this time as well.
I have a couple of questions, first with this second brewing I have had to add hops and they kind of were floating around when I transfered to the glass carboy. Is this normal? Also I was wondering if anyone has any tips to get the most out of these beer kits?
If I decide to try this process from scratch soon I was wondering if it is very hard to create a brew from scratch with my own ingredients?
I have made one batch of beer with a Barons brew kit (mexican beer) and now am making my second batch (Dutch Lager). The first batch I made was not great after two weeks in the bottle but seemed good to me after four weeks. I have found now in this second go round that when moving the brew into the glass carboy that some of the grey muck that I put in at starting of the kit has transfered over. I will again try to make sure that I do not extract that to the bottles but as I move again into the primary fermenter I am sure that I can leave this behind this time as well.
I have a couple of questions, first with this second brewing I have had to add hops and they kind of were floating around when I transfered to the glass carboy. Is this normal? Also I was wondering if anyone has any tips to get the most out of these beer kits?
If I decide to try this process from scratch soon I was wondering if it is very hard to create a brew from scratch with my own ingredients?