smyrnaquince
Well-Known Member
Well, I'm sitting on the back porch enjoying the satisfaction of drinking my first homebrew, a hefeweizen. I split the first 22 oz bottle with my wife. It tasted so good, I had to open another one. Nice banana aroma, not too clove-y. I usually am a one (12 oz bottle of beer kind of guy, but this was good and the satisfaction of having brewed it myself added to the pleasure.)
The only thing that went wrong is that it is a bit under-carbonated. I tried letting the flow from the primary into the bottling bucket mix the sugar water (3/4 cup corn sugar in 2 cups boiled water) and I think I got inconsistent carbonation results. The second bottle had more carbonation than the first. Next time, I will stir the bottling bucket.
I now know to add most of the extract at 15 minutes before flameout. All the extract was in the brewpot for the full 60 minutes, so the beer is darker than one would expect for a hefeweizen.
There is very little yeast in the bottle, which surprised me. Not quite sure what happened there. I used WLP300.
The beer spent two weeks in the primary and 3 weeks in the bottle. OG = 1.044. FG = 1.013. ABV = 4.07%.
Truth be told, this is the second beer I made, but the first I've drunk. The first one is a stout that I brewed a week before the hefeweizen. 3 weeks in the primary, bottled on the same weekend (3 weeks ago) as the hefeweizen. I am waiting for the cool fall weather to open this one, which will also give it a little time to age.
Anyway, I am happy and I wanted to say thank you for all the help I've received on homebrewtalk.com.
The only thing that went wrong is that it is a bit under-carbonated. I tried letting the flow from the primary into the bottling bucket mix the sugar water (3/4 cup corn sugar in 2 cups boiled water) and I think I got inconsistent carbonation results. The second bottle had more carbonation than the first. Next time, I will stir the bottling bucket.
I now know to add most of the extract at 15 minutes before flameout. All the extract was in the brewpot for the full 60 minutes, so the beer is darker than one would expect for a hefeweizen.
There is very little yeast in the bottle, which surprised me. Not quite sure what happened there. I used WLP300.
The beer spent two weeks in the primary and 3 weeks in the bottle. OG = 1.044. FG = 1.013. ABV = 4.07%.
Truth be told, this is the second beer I made, but the first I've drunk. The first one is a stout that I brewed a week before the hefeweizen. 3 weeks in the primary, bottled on the same weekend (3 weeks ago) as the hefeweizen. I am waiting for the cool fall weather to open this one, which will also give it a little time to age.
Anyway, I am happy and I wanted to say thank you for all the help I've received on homebrewtalk.com.