stupidwhitecat
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Why is it that my first batch of home brew is the best Ive made so far? This baffles me the most after looking back knowing what I know now and recognizing all of the mistakes and faux pas I made. I still consider myself very much a beginner. I have been home brewing for just a little over a year and just did my sixth brew. Im still doing extract brews, have moved from kits to my first attempt this weekend at my own recipe. While brewing this batch I cracked open one of the last remaining bottles from my first brew. After each brew I will set aside a six pack of each batch and put it away and open one on occasion. I try to remove the nostalgia of it being my first brew and look at it objectively as far as the clarity, taste, carbonation, etc. It amazes me the most looking back at how the brew went, Im not sure much actually went right. First I used dry yeast vs. liquid. I didnt know that Easy Clean was not a sanitizer. That was all that came with my kit so that is what I used to clean (and sanitize) all of my equipment from brew to bottling. I attempted to use a 5 gal brew kettle to boil 3.5 gal of water on my electric range. It barely got to a simmer the whole time. It took me an hour and a half to cool the wort using my bath tub and ice. Now I have a propane burner and 10 gal kettle, a wort cooler, and know the difference between sanitizer and cleaner. Yet, to me it is the best brew Ive done so far. And Im not alone. Far and away it is the favorite of family and friends that I have shared most of my brews with. Im not sure if it was beginners luck or what, but Im hoping that my most recent brew turns out as good as the first.