PapaGanj
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Started my first batch of beer! Thought it would be nice to start out with a kit, and ease into the passion if home craft beer.
Very pleased with how things are going so far with my kit. If you're not aware the Festa Brew kits come with 19L (I think) of brewers wort, ready to go. Just clean your equipment, add the wort to your primary, and pitch yeast! (Pretty hard to mess this one up)
I started mine yesterday evening around this time and it is going to town already.
Has a beautiful aroma to it. Very similar to Miller Genuine Draft.
Very excited to see how it turns out. And according to the instructions, it should be quite drinkable in about 5 weeks only. And as always, improves with age.
Does anyone have any experience with the time it should take to achieve a nice cream ale? How long in your opinions until it hits its sweet spot mellowing?
Also, I don't wanna start a riot on here, but the brew kit instructions say to rack to secondary after about 3 or 4 days. I've seen a lot of posts on craft beer forums kind of saying that, in fact that does more harm than good. (Oxidation, and added chance of contamination) What do you folk think about this?
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Also kind of separately, i picked up some Root Beer Extract. What are your thoughts on possibly adding a drop or two for some after taste, with this kind of ale. Thought it may be interesting, but again, what do you experts think. [emoji5]
Cheers and enjoy your weekend!
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Very pleased with how things are going so far with my kit. If you're not aware the Festa Brew kits come with 19L (I think) of brewers wort, ready to go. Just clean your equipment, add the wort to your primary, and pitch yeast! (Pretty hard to mess this one up)
I started mine yesterday evening around this time and it is going to town already.
Has a beautiful aroma to it. Very similar to Miller Genuine Draft.
Very excited to see how it turns out. And according to the instructions, it should be quite drinkable in about 5 weeks only. And as always, improves with age.
Does anyone have any experience with the time it should take to achieve a nice cream ale? How long in your opinions until it hits its sweet spot mellowing?
Also, I don't wanna start a riot on here, but the brew kit instructions say to rack to secondary after about 3 or 4 days. I've seen a lot of posts on craft beer forums kind of saying that, in fact that does more harm than good. (Oxidation, and added chance of contamination) What do you folk think about this?
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Also kind of separately, i picked up some Root Beer Extract. What are your thoughts on possibly adding a drop or two for some after taste, with this kind of ale. Thought it may be interesting, but again, what do you experts think. [emoji5]
Cheers and enjoy your weekend!
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