brad87us
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So yesterday was first ever brew day. Overall it went really well and I was very happy with the overall results. I ended up making my own recipe based off a Sweetwater 420 clone extract kit I got from my LHBS. I had some fresh basil I got from a friend of mine and I wanted to go for something like Bison's Honey Basil Ale, so here is what I came up with:
1 lbs 8.0 oz Vienna Malt (Briess) (3.5 SRM)
8.0 oz Aromatic Malt (Briess) (20.0 SRM)
8.0 oz Carapils (Briess) (1.5 SRM)
1 lbs 8.0 oz DME Pilsen Light (2.0 SRM)
3 lbs 4.8 oz LME Pilsen Light (Briess) (2.3 SRM)
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min
1.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 mins)
0.60 oz Basil (Boil 10.0 mins)
2 lbs 8.0 oz Honey [Boil for 5 min](1.0 SRM)
0.60 oz Basil (Boil 0.0 mins)
1.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05)
Est Original Gravity: 1.049 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.005 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.9 %
Bitterness: 18.7 IBUs
Est Color: 4.5 SRM
Here is my setup all ready to go.
This was a normal extract brew with a 30 minute steep of the grains.
Had everything printed and notated on BeerSmith.
Steeping done, all extract added and stirred, water added, time to boil. I decided to go with a full boil on this one since I had the equipment and I wanted practice for moving to AG. I only had a couple small boil overs, good thing I decided to use the garage. I think next time I will lower the pre-boil to 6 gal instead of 6.5. I over estimated my trub loss when racking into fermentation and ended up with 5.75 gallons instead of 5.
Boil is going, hops added, time for a beer!
Got everything done, cleaned, and fermenting.
Overall it was a great experience. Nothing really too unexpected except for the boil overs. I was really happy that I hit my OG within a few points (1.052), my boil off estimate was dead on, just ended up not losing as much from BK to carboy. Next time I won't need as much in the kettle to hit a 5 gallon batch, which should help with the boil over issue.
Checked progress today and have a nice layer of krausen forming, no real bubbling yet, but I'm sure it'll come. This being my first batch I am of course freaked out about infection but I am trying very hard to relax and think positive.
Can't wait to try it out!
On a side note I tried a recipe for spent grain dog treats that turned out really well and my dogs love!
1 lbs 8.0 oz Vienna Malt (Briess) (3.5 SRM)
8.0 oz Aromatic Malt (Briess) (20.0 SRM)
8.0 oz Carapils (Briess) (1.5 SRM)
1 lbs 8.0 oz DME Pilsen Light (2.0 SRM)
3 lbs 4.8 oz LME Pilsen Light (Briess) (2.3 SRM)
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min
1.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 mins)
0.60 oz Basil (Boil 10.0 mins)
2 lbs 8.0 oz Honey [Boil for 5 min](1.0 SRM)
0.60 oz Basil (Boil 0.0 mins)
1.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05)
Est Original Gravity: 1.049 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.005 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.9 %
Bitterness: 18.7 IBUs
Est Color: 4.5 SRM
Here is my setup all ready to go.
This was a normal extract brew with a 30 minute steep of the grains.
Had everything printed and notated on BeerSmith.
Steeping done, all extract added and stirred, water added, time to boil. I decided to go with a full boil on this one since I had the equipment and I wanted practice for moving to AG. I only had a couple small boil overs, good thing I decided to use the garage. I think next time I will lower the pre-boil to 6 gal instead of 6.5. I over estimated my trub loss when racking into fermentation and ended up with 5.75 gallons instead of 5.
Boil is going, hops added, time for a beer!
Got everything done, cleaned, and fermenting.
Overall it was a great experience. Nothing really too unexpected except for the boil overs. I was really happy that I hit my OG within a few points (1.052), my boil off estimate was dead on, just ended up not losing as much from BK to carboy. Next time I won't need as much in the kettle to hit a 5 gallon batch, which should help with the boil over issue.
Checked progress today and have a nice layer of krausen forming, no real bubbling yet, but I'm sure it'll come. This being my first batch I am of course freaked out about infection but I am trying very hard to relax and think positive.
Can't wait to try it out!
On a side note I tried a recipe for spent grain dog treats that turned out really well and my dogs love!
