First batch brewed!

Hello all,

Been lurking around the forums for a while now reading and gathering info, and just today brewed my first batch! Was a Partial mash kit from beer and wine hobby that came with my brew kit, was labeled as "Basic american red ale". Anyways, all went well with a couple hiccups, i filled up the brew bucket with sanitizer and started putting my tools in, when i dropped the thermometer in it hit the bottom and broke, so that was a bummer. Had a boilover when i dropped the hops in so that was fun, but all in all it was a success! Got it all in the fermenter and went to dinner, came back and now i spy a nice steady bubbling airlock, so beer is beeing made! Was a fun day, now let the waiting begin

Welcome and congrats on your first brew! Only a couple of hiccups is a great first brew day. To help control the boil overs during hops addition keep a spray bottle of water handy and blast the foam. One other bit of advice...Start your next one asap!

I stay in Princeton n business form time to time it's some beautiful country, I usually end up fishing for smallies @ the Blue Stone Lake dam in Hinton.

Cheers..

Welcome! and Congrats!

Not bad at all... I made many more mistakes my first brew...

BeerJorge said:

Not bad at all... I made many more mistakes my first brew...

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Thanks guys, was alot of fun, now searching for ideas for my second brew, which will be entered in our local oktoberfest home brew competition in a couple months, never to early to start right lol!