MightyTaco
Member
Hey guys,
Ive always wanted to brew my own beer, and finally got set up with all the equipment last week. Ive been reading this forum and the "www.howtobrew.com" book by John Palmer as well as the book included in my start up kit since. Needless to say, my head is swimming from all this reading!
Anyway, ive found all the answers i was looking for before brewing, but have a few after boiling my first wort. I knew i would mess something up involving this many steps and i think i did. I just boiled a "brewers best" German Altbier ingerdient kit (all extract with some grains to steep) following howtobrew's instructions rather than the poor instructions included with the kit. When i poured the cooled wort into the fermenter i didnt do a good job of keeping the gunk on the bottom from going into the bucket. In fact most of it ended up in the fermenter. Will this have a huge taste impact on the finished beer?
Also, i used a gas stove for all the boiling, but it seemed like it took forever for the water/wort to boil. After steeping the grains at ~160, i turned the heat back on to get the now wort to a boil so i could add the malt extract. I killed the heat once the boiling started and added the extract. After that it seemed to take forever again to boil resulting in very little foam once the boil got going. Is this normal for all extract brewing? I pictured having a hard time keeping the pot from boiling over and a very noticable stop.(hot break is the term correct?) I do have a turkey fryer and thought about using that next time to heat eveything..
Thanks in advance for your help. I hope this batch turns out! Id like to try to do a hefe weizen next.
Ive always wanted to brew my own beer, and finally got set up with all the equipment last week. Ive been reading this forum and the "www.howtobrew.com" book by John Palmer as well as the book included in my start up kit since. Needless to say, my head is swimming from all this reading!
Anyway, ive found all the answers i was looking for before brewing, but have a few after boiling my first wort. I knew i would mess something up involving this many steps and i think i did. I just boiled a "brewers best" German Altbier ingerdient kit (all extract with some grains to steep) following howtobrew's instructions rather than the poor instructions included with the kit. When i poured the cooled wort into the fermenter i didnt do a good job of keeping the gunk on the bottom from going into the bucket. In fact most of it ended up in the fermenter. Will this have a huge taste impact on the finished beer?
Also, i used a gas stove for all the boiling, but it seemed like it took forever for the water/wort to boil. After steeping the grains at ~160, i turned the heat back on to get the now wort to a boil so i could add the malt extract. I killed the heat once the boiling started and added the extract. After that it seemed to take forever again to boil resulting in very little foam once the boil got going. Is this normal for all extract brewing? I pictured having a hard time keeping the pot from boiling over and a very noticable stop.(hot break is the term correct?) I do have a turkey fryer and thought about using that next time to heat eveything..
Thanks in advance for your help. I hope this batch turns out! Id like to try to do a hefe weizen next.