Hello, I'm new around here, but I have been lurking for a couple months now. I just bottled my first batch and feel pretty good about it. I had a ton of screw-ups, but I think it turned out pretty good for a first batch.
If you want to know I did an extract IPA with some specialty grains.
My first problem was my brew pot was too small, only 2 gallons and each time I added DME I had a major boilover. My garage floor was really sticky. I got the wort cooled and into the carboy and almost forgot to take a gravity reading. I didn't really know what I was doing and ended up wasting a bunch of wort on my sample. I got yeast pitched and within 24 hours I had a bunch of action. At this point I was feeling pretty good. I let it sit in primary for 3 weeks and transferred to secondary for dry hopping. This was a terrible experience! I ended up losing my siphon suction with almost a whole gallon left. I struggled with it for a while and finally said forget it with maybe a half gallon left. I also ended up with beer all over the place. I took a gravity sample and I was happy with where it was. I tasted this sample and that's when it hit me, I made beer!
I let it dry hop for a week and bottled tonight. What a nightmare! Took me a lot longer than I wanted it to and I ended up with a very sticky kitchen floor.
Just 3 more weeks, and I'm really excited!
I really appreciate this forum, I did a lot of reading and I was prepared for just about everything that didn't go as planned. I just kicked back and rolled with it.
Thanks to everyone on here!
Next on my list is a little sumpin sumpin
If you want to know I did an extract IPA with some specialty grains.
My first problem was my brew pot was too small, only 2 gallons and each time I added DME I had a major boilover. My garage floor was really sticky. I got the wort cooled and into the carboy and almost forgot to take a gravity reading. I didn't really know what I was doing and ended up wasting a bunch of wort on my sample. I got yeast pitched and within 24 hours I had a bunch of action. At this point I was feeling pretty good. I let it sit in primary for 3 weeks and transferred to secondary for dry hopping. This was a terrible experience! I ended up losing my siphon suction with almost a whole gallon left. I struggled with it for a while and finally said forget it with maybe a half gallon left. I also ended up with beer all over the place. I took a gravity sample and I was happy with where it was. I tasted this sample and that's when it hit me, I made beer!
I let it dry hop for a week and bottled tonight. What a nightmare! Took me a lot longer than I wanted it to and I ended up with a very sticky kitchen floor.
Just 3 more weeks, and I'm really excited!
I really appreciate this forum, I did a lot of reading and I was prepared for just about everything that didn't go as planned. I just kicked back and rolled with it.
Thanks to everyone on here!
Next on my list is a little sumpin sumpin
