First Brew Results

[ongreystreet]

Brewer's Best Altbier

Looks good, tastes good.

 

[Bubba]

Looks delicious! I always like a nice head.

 

[two_hearted]

congrats dude!

 

[kevinjo23]

eff yeah. Amazing head! Just made Brewer's Best Witbier. It isn't perfect, but for a first brew, it's pretty darn good. Keep up the good work!

 

[lou2row]

great looking beer bro! On a first beer, if it looks good and tastes good, you can't ask for more. I hope my first beer comes out as well as yours.

 

[K5MOW]

WOW!!!! Looks great.

Roger

 

[ongreystreet]

Thanks fellas, a lot of reading (books, forums, and brewwiki) made it a pretty easy time. Having a great LHBS helped a lot too.

I think the lessons learned from my first brew were to understand the process and to do a dry run. If you understand why you do things a certain way, or at certain volumes, temps, times, materials, and so on, it helps you avoid mistakes and fix things if you do make a mistake. A dry run of boiling water, using auto-siphon, filling air-loc, and etc helped me avoid those mistakes, and get my technique right before dropping anything besides water in the pot.

 

[smizak]

I think the lessons learned from my first brew were to understand the process and to do a dry run. If you understand why you do things a certain way, or at certain volumes, temps, times, materials, and so on, it helps you avoid mistakes and fix things if you do make a mistake. A dry run of boiling water, using auto-siphon, filling air-loc, and etc helped me avoid those mistakes, and get my technique right before dropping anything besides water in the pot.

That's great advice, I preach the same to all prospective brewers. Don't eff up a batch of beer figuring out your volumes. Do all your transfers first with water and take good notes and good measurements.

 

[ongreystreet]

That's great advice, I preach the same to all prospective brewers. Don't eff up a batch of beer figuring out your volumes. Do all your transfers first with water and take good notes and good measurements.

Yea, I live in a condo with 12k BTU gas stove, I know I got limits. I am always shocked by how many people come on here and say they steeped in 4 gallons of water then never got to a boil, or it took 90 plus minutes to get there. I am sure I'll have my share of screw ups, just don't want to waste my time making mistakes I should be avoiding.