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Thanks to the massive amounts of knowledge on this forum i feel extremely comfortable and efficient at home brewing. My very first batch isn't even done fermenting yet but i couldn't have done it without you guys. Rather than being a stressed out noob i had a lot of fun on brew day and I'm extremely anxious for my bottling day. And can't wait to start up another batch.

In short thank you guys so much for the help it is greatly appreciated.

-Steve

Do you realize that you can buy another fermenting bucket for less than $20 and start the next batch right away? You wouldn't need anything more except for the ingredient kit. I think it's fun to have more than one batch going at once. It gives me something to do while waiting for the previous batch to be ready to bottle.

Oh, and congratulations on the comfortable start.

Cisteve said:

Thanks to the massive amounts of knowledge on this forum i feel extremely comfortable and efficient at home brewing. My very first batch isn't even done fermenting yet but i couldn't have done it without you guys. Rather than being a stressed out noob i had a lot of fun on brew day and I'm extremely anxious for my bottling day. And can't wait to start up another batch.

In short thank you guys so much for the help it is greatly appreciated.

-Steve

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I could not agree more. My first brew also went flawlessly, all due to the tons of information and advice available here. Thank you all!

1) Welcome!
2) Definitely a good idea to get the equipment together to build a pipeline and parallel brews. I'm still working on it. I hate to see one batch get finished off before I've started another.
3) Please stop using the word "epic". While this forum is incredible, it's no Gilgamesh or Faith No More album, the only appropriate uses for the word.

JetSmooth said:

1) Welcome!
2) Definitely a good idea to get the equipment together to build a pipeline and parallel brews. I'm still working on it. I hate to see one batch get finished off before I've started another.
3) Please stop using the word "epic". While this forum is incredible, it's no Gilgamesh or Faith No More album, the only appropriate uses for the word.

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Heres a bad awfully suggestion to"epic"- Lets hear more "winning" duh..

So I took a gravity reading today (6 days after brew day)

My first gravity reading before pitching was 1.049
And now it's at 1.012

I'm kinda surprised that fermentation took place so quickly especially so due to almost no airlock activity.


I'm guessing wyeast

Could have also been a small leak around the bucket lid seal. I've had several batches never make a single bubble, but fully fermented just fine. I am guessing the seal on the bucket isn't great allowing the co2 to escape at the bucket lid seal.

You'll know when it's done when you get the same reading ~3 days in a row.

Congrats on the first batch.

Good. There is your proof,airlocks keep air out and excess co2, only use that for a forcast. Your hydro and visibility of krausen or fallen krasuen are your indicaters of activity.If you have glass you can even see the vigor the little yeast have sometimes.
Fermentation can happen within 2 days i did one sunday and it looks like its done today,but i will let it sit 3 weeks before botteling to clean up and taste good for botteling.

jonmohno said:

Good. There is your proof,airlocks keep air out and excess co2, only use that for a forcast. Your hydro and visibility of krausen or fallen krasuen are your indicaters of activity.If you have glass you can even see the vigor the little yeast have sometimes.
Fermentation can happen within 2 days i did one sunday and it looks like its done today,but i will let it sit 3 weeks before botteling to clean up and taste good for botteling.

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Jut had the same thing happen to me. Brewed a weisbeir kit friday. no bubbles in the blowoff tube saturday, sunday monday or tuesday. Popped the lid off to get a sg sample, to determine whether or not to repitch. nice neat krausen ring right there in the middle. Never got to the top of the headspace!!! Put the airlock on and now will wait the usual 3-4 weeks til bottling. The hydrometer fell in the test cylinder so fast it hit bottom, never even floated. Guess it musta fermented while I wasn't watching. Ninja Yeast?

Agreed! This forum has helped me so much. I also agree with going ahead and starting another brew. I got lucky that when my dad moved from KY to MA that he left 2 carboys behind. When I bought my kit it also had one, so I have 3

Once I moved my first batch to a carboy and had it stored away I started up a 2nd batch. Figure I'll wait now to see how they turn out before I spend more money....

Caboose said:

Once I moved my first batch to a carboy and had it stored away I started up a 2nd batch. Figure I'll wait now to see how they turn out before I spend more money....

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You don't need to do that. I brewed 4 batches before I even tasted the first one. They all turned out great.

Brew more.

And I agree this site is great. I have learned a ton about brewing from reading my beer porn on this site.

Cisteve said:

Thanks to the massive amounts of knowledge on this forum i feel extremely comfortable and efficient at home brewing. My very first batch isn't even done fermenting yet but i couldn't have done it without you guys. Rather than being a stressed out noob i had a lot of fun on brew day and I'm extremely anxious for my bottling day. And can't wait to start up another batch.

In short thank you guys so much for the help it is greatly appreciated.

-Steve

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My thoughts exactly!

Started my first batch last weekend, and I just ordered another fermenter as I have a Nut Brown Ale kit calling me.

+1 to the greatness of this forum.
The way I do it is once I bottle the next weekend is brew time. so I get a batch in at least once a month. But I also still use my Mr.Beer keg for experiment batches.

JetSmooth said:

1) Welcome!
2) Definitely a good idea to get the equipment together to build a pipeline and parallel brews. I'm still working on it. I hate to see one batch get finished off before I've started another.
3) Please stop using the word "epic". While this forum is incredible, it's no Gilgamesh or Faith No More album, the only appropriate uses for the word.

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There are other appropriate uses for the word. I too feel the word "epic" gets overused, but last week I played on an "epic" recording session. Here it is if you're interested.

To all of you saying thank you for the wealth of information available here, you are quite welcome! the coolest thing is when you are comfortable in your brewing and have learned the ins and outs of brewing, you look back down the path you just followed and see others like you at the beginning looking for help and reassurance, and you are in a position to lend a hand now. Makes you feel pretty good overall, the student begins to teach

Of course I am usually just here to add some sarcastic wit to most posts

Keep up the good work brewing and dont forget where you started from, lord knows I have a few times....