wup
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Well. this is how the story goes last spring got fed up with paying $40/case for beer, and went to a Brew On Premise which are common up here in Ontario. Gave them $90 and they said come back in 2 weeks. Go back 2 weeks later with six cases of empties and fill them up. Take it home, tastes like sugar water, call them up they say bring it back and they will make a new batch. Another 2 weeks goes by and bottle the next batch and it tastes the same.
I say enough of this, and pick up some ingredients for my first batch(extract). Make my first batch and it tastes pretty bad as well. Second batch is a bit better, but it is nowhere near "good". Third batch I steep some specialty grains and it is a little better. Fourth batch an infection, and fifth batch was the worst batch of them all.
Well, at this point it is clear that I am getting a little depressed.
The winter comes and goes, I say, hey lets give it another try, but this time all grain. So I assemble everthing needed. and this brings me to last tuesday.
First AG, hit 50% efficiency, didn't sparge with enough water, so I ended up with <4 gallons of really LG beer, no big deal, the first attempt, I knew it wasn't going to go perfect.
2'nd AG last Thursday, things went much better hit 72% efficiency proper volume of wort, no problems with the brewing, pitch the yeast and put it in the basement, Saturday comes, I get home from work, and there lies my air lock on the ground and krausen spewing out the airlock. Rig up a blow off tube and put it away, over the next couple days I start smelling a really sour smell, so as it stands I am pretty sure it is infected, but I really hope its not.
3'rd AG This Tuesday, Hefe. Crush the grains. Realized I should have not mixed the wheat and 2-row before crushing as the wheat is slightly smaller. So I dropped in efficiency about 5% no big deal as I am still learning. Make the beer, everything goes allright. Pitch the yeast, WLP300 Hefeweizen Ale Yeast, rig a blow off tube from the begging, set it in the laundry room since I don't have room where the other 2 are sitting. I come home today and find out that the freaking room is like 80 degrees because people have been doing laundry all day, and of course 80 degrees + hefe yeast=lots o' bananna. So this is going to be an interesting beer.
So as it sits now, I am here, depressed, upset, ready to call it quits, absolutely nothing has gone right for me. Has anything like this happned to anyone else?
Wup
P.S. Sorry for the long story but I just though I needed to get it off my chest.
I say enough of this, and pick up some ingredients for my first batch(extract). Make my first batch and it tastes pretty bad as well. Second batch is a bit better, but it is nowhere near "good". Third batch I steep some specialty grains and it is a little better. Fourth batch an infection, and fifth batch was the worst batch of them all.
Well, at this point it is clear that I am getting a little depressed.
The winter comes and goes, I say, hey lets give it another try, but this time all grain. So I assemble everthing needed. and this brings me to last tuesday.
First AG, hit 50% efficiency, didn't sparge with enough water, so I ended up with <4 gallons of really LG beer, no big deal, the first attempt, I knew it wasn't going to go perfect.
2'nd AG last Thursday, things went much better hit 72% efficiency proper volume of wort, no problems with the brewing, pitch the yeast and put it in the basement, Saturday comes, I get home from work, and there lies my air lock on the ground and krausen spewing out the airlock. Rig up a blow off tube and put it away, over the next couple days I start smelling a really sour smell, so as it stands I am pretty sure it is infected, but I really hope its not.
3'rd AG This Tuesday, Hefe. Crush the grains. Realized I should have not mixed the wheat and 2-row before crushing as the wheat is slightly smaller. So I dropped in efficiency about 5% no big deal as I am still learning. Make the beer, everything goes allright. Pitch the yeast, WLP300 Hefeweizen Ale Yeast, rig a blow off tube from the begging, set it in the laundry room since I don't have room where the other 2 are sitting. I come home today and find out that the freaking room is like 80 degrees because people have been doing laundry all day, and of course 80 degrees + hefe yeast=lots o' bananna. So this is going to be an interesting beer.
So as it sits now, I am here, depressed, upset, ready to call it quits, absolutely nothing has gone right for me. Has anything like this happned to anyone else?
Wup
P.S. Sorry for the long story but I just though I needed to get it off my chest.
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