Bottled First Batch!

Hi All,

I am officially 100% addicted to this new hobby. I had just had a blast bottling my first batch of amber ale. I sampled some of course while I was bottling. For an uncarbonated and unconditioned first brew, I think it tastes pretty frikkin good. Can't wait till it carbs and conditions and is really ready to drink!!

Very cool! Congrats!

Congrats, and welcome to the obsession.

Welcome to the hardest part of home brewing..... Waiting 3 weeks for your bottles to be ready for your drinking pleasure. I am sure in a week you will try one, then the next. It is hard to wait to get those 3 weeks in without drinking a few of you first. Congrads.

Congrats and welcome. Something I'm just now getting around to (4 batches into the addiction) is making sure the pieline is full of beer. I have a batch 1 week into bottling (english brown ale) and getting ready to bottle another batch today (stout). Neither of my first 2 batches lasted much beyond the 3 weeks. Pretty much, I can have the patience of a gnat sometimes.

I figure if I get impatient yet again and the english brown becomes the victim, then at least the stout will have time to age properly. I have a feeling both these batches will have time though. I sampled the English Brown yesterday and it tasted like how I would imagine bath water (without the soap) to taste.

Anyhow, I'm planning on brewing up a wheat probably next week. That way as I'm drinking the Stout, the Wheat will be aging.....

I guess, just keep the pipeline full is all I'm trying to say.

Thanks guys! I am definitely hoping to get the pipeline full and flowing soon. I'm going to start brewing my next batch this weekend. I'm going with a blonde ale this time. I'm gonna get a few more of those under my belt before I move onto to stouts and porters I think.

I probably will have one outta the bottling in a week or so just for research purposes gotta make sure it's conditiong properly, right? haha

bam said:

I probably will have one outta the bottling in a week or so just for research purposes gotta make sure it's conditiong properly, right? haha

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Most definitely. Take a taste from your hydrometer sample when you initially put it in the fermenter, then a taste before you bottle, and a taste once each week that it's been bottled until it's good. All in the name of research!