After many years of reading on how to brew I finally my first brew 
First of all the two thermometers I used went nuts. At some point my wort wasn't boiling and it was displaying 118c... I first though ok maybe since it's not only water it boil to a higher level?
60 minute, I start the chiller, after 10 minute, the thermometer show 102c... ok what the hell. I touch the pot, it's freaking cold! Damn, I guess the thermometer is dead at this point. Take a new one (identical, brand new two) and it says 12c. I'm too low, let's adjust a bit.
Since my pot isn't big enough I need to make a partial boil, so I had 4 gal in the fermenter, supose to be cooling. Been sitting in here for almost 2 hours, and it's still very hot. It's sitting at 46c. So I take it out, in the snow, put the thermometer in here and wait. Going down 1 degree by every 5 minute. I try to swirl the water around to equalize the heat. Not good result, it shows 64c now! WTF. Second thermometer must be dead, I use my cooking one (which I always suspected it was not precise) and it shows 35c. Ah I knew it...
So in the snow it's not fast enough, and I must hurry my wort is cool since a while. So I remember water is a better conductor... so I start the bath with cold water, and take snow batch in it and it go down very well!
So I could pitch my yeast! I shake the fermenter very well to aerate it, pitch and put the lid on it (but not tight, just well placed so air can get out but most likely not in.
My yeast is a white lab vial, no starter (guy at the shop said white lab most likely not need it and my OG was 1.043). Just after I pitch my yeast I already had some kind of foam at the top due to shaking. After 24 hours the foam lowered and it didn't see any sign of fermenting, maybe someking of "mist" sitckied under the lid.
I decided to close tight the lid, and it inflated like a ballon. I noticed the foam (which is here since the begining) raised but just a little bit I almost didn't noticed. I did because of the scale on my fermenter. The foam was up to 22L and now it's sitting at 22.5L. But not big foam like I used to see on many websites.
I forgot to say that there is no airlock on this fermenter, the air is suposed to get out... and it's transparent so I can see in.
So now I'm wondering, did my fermentation started? Since the lid inflated like CO2 is trying to get out? (It's not due to heat, so what could it be?)
I was really expecting a very nice foam. But it look like the foam I add after 1 second in the fermenter with the yeast (When you shake the white lab it's somekind of foam that get out....)
In the end how did it went? Bad Will I redo it? Definitly yes
First of all the two thermometers I used went nuts. At some point my wort wasn't boiling and it was displaying 118c... I first though ok maybe since it's not only water it boil to a higher level?
60 minute, I start the chiller, after 10 minute, the thermometer show 102c... ok what the hell. I touch the pot, it's freaking cold! Damn, I guess the thermometer is dead at this point. Take a new one (identical, brand new two) and it says 12c. I'm too low, let's adjust a bit.
Since my pot isn't big enough I need to make a partial boil, so I had 4 gal in the fermenter, supose to be cooling. Been sitting in here for almost 2 hours, and it's still very hot. It's sitting at 46c. So I take it out, in the snow, put the thermometer in here and wait. Going down 1 degree by every 5 minute. I try to swirl the water around to equalize the heat. Not good result, it shows 64c now! WTF. Second thermometer must be dead, I use my cooking one (which I always suspected it was not precise) and it shows 35c. Ah I knew it...
So in the snow it's not fast enough, and I must hurry my wort is cool since a while. So I remember water is a better conductor... so I start the bath with cold water, and take snow batch in it and it go down very well!
So I could pitch my yeast! I shake the fermenter very well to aerate it, pitch and put the lid on it (but not tight, just well placed so air can get out but most likely not in.
My yeast is a white lab vial, no starter (guy at the shop said white lab most likely not need it and my OG was 1.043). Just after I pitch my yeast I already had some kind of foam at the top due to shaking. After 24 hours the foam lowered and it didn't see any sign of fermenting, maybe someking of "mist" sitckied under the lid.
I decided to close tight the lid, and it inflated like a ballon. I noticed the foam (which is here since the begining) raised but just a little bit I almost didn't noticed. I did because of the scale on my fermenter. The foam was up to 22L and now it's sitting at 22.5L. But not big foam like I used to see on many websites.
I forgot to say that there is no airlock on this fermenter, the air is suposed to get out... and it's transparent so I can see in.
So now I'm wondering, did my fermentation started? Since the lid inflated like CO2 is trying to get out? (It's not due to heat, so what could it be?)
I was really expecting a very nice foam. But it look like the foam I add after 1 second in the fermenter with the yeast (When you shake the white lab it's somekind of foam that get out....)
In the end how did it went? Bad
Will I redo it? Definitly yes 
