coopernatural
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Hey all,
I thought I would document my first homebrew attempt with some friends last night. I have a question or two but I'll get to those soon.
We started with some of our local shop's recommended ingredients.
• Honey Wheat Dry Malt Extract
• Bittering hops
• Irish Moss (clarifier)
• Finishing hops
• Granulated brewing honey
We began the boil in our 16-qt kettle. Definitely want to get an upgraded 8 gallon kettle to do full boils in the future. Our small 4-gallon turned into Mordor as it spilled over twice causing us novice's a cleaning fiasco, but we managed.
After boiling for an hour, we put the kettle into a cold bath to get it down to 70F. We set the kettle down into the water and it chilled bizarrely fast. Probably less than a minute or two. It's a very thin pot, but is that normal? The wort temp reading we got was 60F which I have read is alright.
I came back after we pitched the yeast and the bucket was hot. This was an hour or two after we had closed up the fermenter. Is this normal? It felt really REALLY warm. Since it was warm, I am second guessing whether my 60F chilled wort was an accurate reading.
Overall, it was a fun night of brewing, and I'll post back in a week on the fermenting process, and eventually how the bottles turn out.
I thought I would document my first homebrew attempt with some friends last night. I have a question or two but I'll get to those soon.
We started with some of our local shop's recommended ingredients.
• Honey Wheat Dry Malt Extract
• Bittering hops
• Irish Moss (clarifier)
• Finishing hops
• Granulated brewing honey
We began the boil in our 16-qt kettle. Definitely want to get an upgraded 8 gallon kettle to do full boils in the future. Our small 4-gallon turned into Mordor as it spilled over twice causing us novice's a cleaning fiasco, but we managed.
After boiling for an hour, we put the kettle into a cold bath to get it down to 70F. We set the kettle down into the water and it chilled bizarrely fast. Probably less than a minute or two. It's a very thin pot, but is that normal? The wort temp reading we got was 60F which I have read is alright.
I came back after we pitched the yeast and the bucket was hot. This was an hour or two after we had closed up the fermenter. Is this normal? It felt really REALLY warm. Since it was warm, I am second guessing whether my 60F chilled wort was an accurate reading.
Overall, it was a fun night of brewing, and I'll post back in a week on the fermenting process, and eventually how the bottles turn out.