Hi again, fellas!
My first batch has been in the secondary for a week and will be bottled this coming weekend. Thanks for all the help on that one.
I ordered my next kit - a porter - and just received it today. The thing is, it didn't come with directions! I think I have the main gist of brewing, but I'm not sure when to add a couple of the ingredients:
a) It came with two packets of hop pellets; one packet is about 3X as big as the smaller one. If I had to guess, I would add the big packet at the beginning of the boil and the little one with 5-10 minutes remaining in the boil.....but I'm not sure.
b) It came with 2 packets of white powder; one is labelled "malto-dextrin," and the other in unlabelled. I'm assuming the unlabelled one is the priming sugar for bottling. Am I to add the malto-dextrin powder when I add the rest of the fermentable sugars?
Thanks in advance for the help.
My first batch has been in the secondary for a week and will be bottled this coming weekend. Thanks for all the help on that one.
I ordered my next kit - a porter - and just received it today. The thing is, it didn't come with directions! I think I have the main gist of brewing, but I'm not sure when to add a couple of the ingredients:
a) It came with two packets of hop pellets; one packet is about 3X as big as the smaller one. If I had to guess, I would add the big packet at the beginning of the boil and the little one with 5-10 minutes remaining in the boil.....but I'm not sure.
b) It came with 2 packets of white powder; one is labelled "malto-dextrin," and the other in unlabelled. I'm assuming the unlabelled one is the priming sugar for bottling. Am I to add the malto-dextrin powder when I add the rest of the fermentable sugars?
Thanks in advance for the help.