Hello from Mahopac, NY

[Ditzla]

Going to brew for the 1st time this weekend with the much appreciated help of a new to the neighborhood brewing buddy who has gotten me hooked. Going to try a full boil malt extract English Ale.

 

[vitalbrew]

Welcome! Sounds tasty - I'm thinking of doing an English Ale this weekend myself.

 

[Rick91981]

Hi Ditzla! Welcome to the forums. I'm close by to you in Carmel.

 

[Christer]

How'd the brew day go? I did a nut brown this weekend and am just over in Danbury.

 

[Ditzla]

Thanks for the kind welcome, always interesting to see how close brewers are, apparently we are legion.

My 1st brew went OK (I hope) thanks to my brewing mentor. I took pity on the wife and tried to do most of it outside using a Bayou burner and that got my 8.5 gallon kettle going quickly.

Other than pushing the stopper into far while sanitizing the carboy things went pretty well (We won't mention my 7 year old daughter splashing me from the neighbors pool next door the exact moment we were transfering to the primary fermenter.

My only other hiccup was that I used the wrong yeast packet, go figure Nottingham dry yease was for the Light ale kit that came with the starter set the wife bought and Sarfale Dry yeast was for the English IPA.

Beer has started fermenting (Bubbling vodka).

Hopefully I haven't screwed anything up too badly.

I guess next step is to transfer to Secondary Fermenter and add the Oak Chips. Any tips or thoughts on that?

Thanks

 

[BirdmanBrewingCo]

Welcome to HBT Ditzla!