mellofello
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I'm interested if anyone has any predictions what this beer I made today may taste like ? It's okay to say if you think it will be crappy, but if you could be a little more descriptive it would be helpful too. I am after all posting in beginner.
What happened was I had bought a bunch of LME a few months back. Now I'm working on an all grain setup and wanted to use up some of this LME. I built a keggle out of 1/2 barrel (15.5 gal) and have a large bayou classic burner. The LME I had on hand was 12 lbs. Gold, 6 lbs. Amber, 6 lbs. dark, and 6 lbs. wheat. I decided to use the 12 lbs. Gold and 6 lbs Amber to make one large batch, and by approximating, guessing, and rounding decided I could probably make somewhere around 13 gallons using just the 18 lbs. combined LME.
So good, bad or other wise that's what I used, no steeping grains, no crystal malt, etc.. just 12 lbs gold LME, and 6 lbs amber LME. I think Breiss is the brand. I managed to get it boiling okay. added about 2 oz. Nugget hops right away. added 2 oz. of vanguard hops after 45 minutes or so. added heaping 1/2 teaspoon irish moss stuff mixed up in water about 50 minutes in, added about 2 oz. of Saaz hops about 55 minutes and shut er down about 5 minutes later.
I put the stuff in 4 sanitized buckets with lids and airlocks. I kind of sloshed it back and forth between buckets a few times, hopefully plenty of oxygen.
the yeast is Munton's active brewing yeast which I did not make a starter, just sprinkled one pack on top each bucket before closing. One more thing you may laugh at is I didn't have any vodka so I put some mouthwash in the airlocks. In hindsight that was kind of dumb cuz if it gets sucked in somehow it may kill yeast ? I dunno, but as long as it doesn't go in hopefully be alright.
It's about 62-65 degrees I think in my basement so that part should be good but I'll leave a thermometer and make sure. stuff seems to be bubbling already, but maybe it's just adjusting temperature or something.
Oh, one last thing that's kind of funny. I have nowhere near enough bottles, and no kegging system for this stuff yet ! so much for planning ahead, eh ? saw a couple guys in my area with kegerator's, korney kegs and CO2 setup on craigslist though..... guess it's either that or else buy or collect and wash a bunch of bottles in the next couple weeks, eh ?
so what do you think, you give my beer a 50/50 or better chance of being drinkable ?
What happened was I had bought a bunch of LME a few months back. Now I'm working on an all grain setup and wanted to use up some of this LME. I built a keggle out of 1/2 barrel (15.5 gal) and have a large bayou classic burner. The LME I had on hand was 12 lbs. Gold, 6 lbs. Amber, 6 lbs. dark, and 6 lbs. wheat. I decided to use the 12 lbs. Gold and 6 lbs Amber to make one large batch, and by approximating, guessing, and rounding decided I could probably make somewhere around 13 gallons using just the 18 lbs. combined LME.
So good, bad or other wise that's what I used, no steeping grains, no crystal malt, etc.. just 12 lbs gold LME, and 6 lbs amber LME. I think Breiss is the brand. I managed to get it boiling okay. added about 2 oz. Nugget hops right away. added 2 oz. of vanguard hops after 45 minutes or so. added heaping 1/2 teaspoon irish moss stuff mixed up in water about 50 minutes in, added about 2 oz. of Saaz hops about 55 minutes and shut er down about 5 minutes later.
I put the stuff in 4 sanitized buckets with lids and airlocks. I kind of sloshed it back and forth between buckets a few times, hopefully plenty of oxygen.
the yeast is Munton's active brewing yeast which I did not make a starter, just sprinkled one pack on top each bucket before closing. One more thing you may laugh at is I didn't have any vodka so I put some mouthwash in the airlocks. In hindsight that was kind of dumb cuz if it gets sucked in somehow it may kill yeast ? I dunno, but as long as it doesn't go in hopefully be alright.
It's about 62-65 degrees I think in my basement so that part should be good but I'll leave a thermometer and make sure. stuff seems to be bubbling already, but maybe it's just adjusting temperature or something.
Oh, one last thing that's kind of funny. I have nowhere near enough bottles, and no kegging system for this stuff yet ! so much for planning ahead, eh ? saw a couple guys in my area with kegerator's, korney kegs and CO2 setup on craigslist though..... guess it's either that or else buy or collect and wash a bunch of bottles in the next couple weeks, eh ?
so what do you think, you give my beer a 50/50 or better chance of being drinkable ?
