Maniacmcgoo
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Wanted to stop by and introduce myself. Picked up a kit last week from LHBS in Northern va. Brewed my first kit last week as well. It did not go well. Added the priming sugar to the wort during the boil. Then I pitched the yeast with too warm of wort. The first night my bucket blew its lid redecorating the room. Got worried about being able to properly sanitize it so I transfered it to the Carboy that came with the Kit and it's been there since wednesday morning. Took a hydrometer reading as I was transferring and was shocked that I was sitting at 1.019 so shortly after starting. OG was 1.072 IIRC, wrote it down but don't have it with me. It's currently covered and sitting next to the house thermometer to keep a constant temp. plan to take another reading next week to see if the gravity has changed.
Friday my fiancee wanted to try her hand at "helping" make a brew so I found the recipe to a clone of my favorite brew and she and i went to a local shop to get supplies and spent a good friday standing over a brew pot drinking beer from local breweries. This beer was a heavier type beer for the holiday season. So after the boil (which went smooth thankfully). I chilled and pitched the yeast. 5 hours later nothing so i aerate it (pour into sanitized bottling bucket then pour through the spigot back into the fermenter. I wait and low and behold its starts bubbling away happily. 6 hours later I have my 2nd blow off. I'm thinking... Seriously? Decide to hell with the airlock and take a growler fill with hot water and some sanitizer shove a rubber hose into the fermenter and the other end into the growler and let it be. No more blow outs so far. Hopefully, I can let this sit for 3-4 weeks and get it ready for the bigger games of the football season.
Friday my fiancee wanted to try her hand at "helping" make a brew so I found the recipe to a clone of my favorite brew and she and i went to a local shop to get supplies and spent a good friday standing over a brew pot drinking beer from local breweries. This beer was a heavier type beer for the holiday season. So after the boil (which went smooth thankfully). I chilled and pitched the yeast. 5 hours later nothing so i aerate it (pour into sanitized bottling bucket then pour through the spigot back into the fermenter. I wait and low and behold its starts bubbling away happily. 6 hours later I have my 2nd blow off. I'm thinking... Seriously? Decide to hell with the airlock and take a growler fill with hot water and some sanitizer shove a rubber hose into the fermenter and the other end into the growler and let it be. No more blow outs so far. Hopefully, I can let this sit for 3-4 weeks and get it ready for the bigger games of the football season.