Hi guys
Awesome forum, I have finally decided to stop lurking for knowledge and sign up and share my happenings as a new brewer....
I chose to go down the route of boiling my malt extract even though it was hopped but also added hops rite towards the end of the boil, I also chose to do a small boil was that I really.didn't like the un hands on approach of just putting the extract straight in the fermenter putting the lid on and that's it, to me there's no love in that
everything tastes better with a bit of love and enjoyment thrown in.... I will eventually start useing grains and recipes and such but just going to use some nice packs at the minute to get the hang of things and slowly start steeping grains.
I have chosen to do a mix of Moasic and citra into my first beer pack which is a
"Mangrove Jacks Craft series IPA"
After reading lots and lots and second guessing myself on everything I would read I finally delved in, in producing my first batch of Wort, and found it enjoyable, it can be daunting doing it for the very first time, not ever experienceing your first "Hot Break" (water mister and stirer at the ready)
And also makeing sure to remeber the little things that make a big difference (turning off heat and stirring extract so it doesn't pool)
.... one of my first rookie errors was in hopping towards the end of the boil not weighing anything and kinda just a bit gun ho.... I have a feeling I put Way to much in, I bashed like 100g of moasic in a hop bag with maybe 40g of citra and have kept just over 50 grams to dry hop today with..is this enough to make a difference? .... the hop bag was a monster in my boil pot, I guess it was a learning experience.... I did have some kind of thought process in my head when putting so much in at the boil I liked the smell of the moasic alot and quite found of it so I thought I'd heavily hop the boil with it like 3 mins before flame out and then the dry hopped citra will leave just a nice hinty note of itself ..... is this a correct way of.looking at it or comeptlty off track ?? I am still learning about the different ABVS and how.oily the hops are and such, I do know they are both aroma hops and have slightly figured out the difference between them and bittering variety...
Can anyone shed any light what my final outcome may taste like putting that much hops in at the end of boil ?? Will it effect it tremendously or could it be a happy accident and taste flipping awesome ????
After my boil
I had trouble chilling the wort quickly using ice in the sink and water super scared about the "contaminating part of the cooling" I read so much about, and have decided for my next batch I will be using a cooling coil and debating to make my own of just buy one.....
Anyway I pitched at around 20 oC using the M-07 English Ale yeast
Activity slow for the first few hours but it was time for bed then ..... but awoke to a nice steady happy airlock bubbling away, the first 2 days I had been watching the thermometer strip like a hawk I kept it in between 18 oC - 20oc hopeing my target was 19....
I found a cheap $50 bucks fridge freezer and going to pick it up today give it a good old clean and get me a temp control for the next batch, the Mrs grew swiftly tierd of wet towels getting on her clothes and shoes in the closet I'm actually quite excited to set up my fermenting fridge
So it's been 7 days now from pitching, airlock has hardly any activity if what none, but reading wisdom from you guys that's nothing to go by and will be leaving it in primary dry hippinh another week before bottling, I am weighing up the option of going to get a secondary fermenter today so I can make another batch, but am leaning towards just waiting and seeing how this one turns out.
I'm also debating whether to buy a bottling bucket or to just use the tap and wand on my primary(sediment reducer is in), as it was a taped barrel from a set ??? Any reccomendarions whether transferring to bottling bucket ... just read an awesome bottling post on the forum here forgive me for not remeber posters name he posts alot of helpful stuff though
I will put a few pics at the bottom maybe someone can advise me on my first grav reading I'm still a bit un knowledgeable on this part I took a pic of grav reading
Thanks guys hope someone got some enjoyment out of my post and any first time brewers makeing the jump in like me, don't fret and just go for it ...
Will post some updates
Awesome forum, I have finally decided to stop lurking for knowledge and sign up and share my happenings as a new brewer....
I chose to go down the route of boiling my malt extract even though it was hopped but also added hops rite towards the end of the boil, I also chose to do a small boil was that I really.didn't like the un hands on approach of just putting the extract straight in the fermenter putting the lid on and that's it, to me there's no love in that
everything tastes better with a bit of love and enjoyment thrown in.... I will eventually start useing grains and recipes and such but just going to use some nice packs at the minute to get the hang of things and slowly start steeping grains.I have chosen to do a mix of Moasic and citra into my first beer pack which is a
"Mangrove Jacks Craft series IPA"
After reading lots and lots and second guessing myself on everything I would read I finally delved in, in producing my first batch of Wort, and found it enjoyable, it can be daunting doing it for the very first time, not ever experienceing your first "Hot Break" (water mister and stirer at the ready
)And also makeing sure to remeber the little things that make a big difference (turning off heat and stirring extract so it doesn't pool)
.... one of my first rookie errors was in hopping towards the end of the boil not weighing anything and kinda just a bit gun ho.... I have a feeling I put Way to much in, I bashed like 100g of moasic in a hop bag with maybe 40g of citra and have kept just over 50 grams to dry hop today with..is this enough to make a difference? .... the hop bag was a monster in my boil pot, I guess it was a learning experience.... I did have some kind of thought process in my head when putting so much in at the boil I liked the smell of the moasic alot and quite found of it so I thought I'd heavily hop the boil with it like 3 mins before flame out and then the dry hopped citra will leave just a nice hinty note of itself ..... is this a correct way of.looking at it or comeptlty off track ?? I am still learning about the different ABVS and how.oily the hops are and such, I do know they are both aroma hops and have slightly figured out the difference between them and bittering variety...
Can anyone shed any light what my final outcome may taste like putting that much hops in at the end of boil ?? Will it effect it tremendously or could it be a happy accident and taste flipping awesome ????
After my boil
I had trouble chilling the wort quickly using ice in the sink and water super scared about the "contaminating part of the cooling" I read so much about, and have decided for my next batch I will be using a cooling coil and debating to make my own of just buy one.....
Anyway I pitched at around 20 oC using the M-07 English Ale yeast
Activity slow for the first few hours but it was time for bed then ..... but awoke to a nice steady happy airlock bubbling away, the first 2 days I had been watching the thermometer strip like a hawk I kept it in between 18 oC - 20oc hopeing my target was 19....
I found a cheap $50 bucks fridge freezer and going to pick it up today give it a good old clean and get me a temp control for the next batch, the Mrs grew swiftly tierd of wet towels getting on her clothes and shoes in the closet
I'm actually quite excited to set up my fermenting fridge So it's been 7 days now from pitching, airlock has hardly any activity if what none, but reading wisdom from you guys that's nothing to go by
and will be leaving it in primary dry hippinh another week before bottling, I am weighing up the option of going to get a secondary fermenter today so I can make another batch, but am leaning towards just waiting and seeing how this one turns out.I'm also debating whether to buy a bottling bucket or to just use the tap and wand on my primary(sediment reducer is in), as it was a taped barrel from a set ??? Any reccomendarions whether transferring to bottling bucket ... just read an awesome bottling post on the forum here forgive me for not remeber posters name he posts alot of helpful stuff though
I will put a few pics
at the bottom maybe someone can advise me on my first grav reading I'm still a bit un knowledgeable on this part I took a pic of grav reading Thanks guys hope someone got some enjoyment out of my post and any first time brewers makeing the jump in like me, don't fret and just go for it ...
Will post some updates
