How am I doin? 8 days in, first Hydro

[meatwad]

Brewed my first beer 8 days ago, a partial mash, partial boil ACME IPA Clone from North Coast.

Per the recipe, the OG was supposed to be 1.062... I hit that.

FG is supposed to be 1.011.
I took my first reading tonite. I'm at 1.020, on the nose. Gettin close.

Here's the bill -
5.5 lbs Briess Light DME
1 lb 2 row malt
1.0 Vienna Malt
.33lbs Munich Malt
.33lbs Carapils Malt
3.3 AAU Clusters hops (60 mins) - .5 oz
3.3 AAU Clusters hops (30 mins) - .5 oz
14 AAU Northern Brewer (0 Mins) - 1.5 oz
White Labs WLP060

Oh, and I tasted it!

So, first impression: Beer looked good, nice amber body, really pretty actually. Quite cloudy of course. Smell was a bit sweet, little hop aroma. Tasted like an IPA, little sweet, but really dry...hop dry on the back of the tongue. Started dry, ended drier. I'm sure its just green, I'm not worried, just sharing my first experience. If it cleans up, I imagine it'll be pretty tasty!

Anyway, I plan on leaving it in primary for 3-4 weeks total, then bottle it up.

Am I doing what I should be doin? It's just a waiting game at this point....

thanks dudes!

 

[EarlyBirdBrew]

Sounds pretty good to me leave it in your primary for another 2 to 3 weeks and you should be golden.

 

[Zen_Brew]

You're doin fine. Definitely leave it in the fermentor for a while yet. Looks like a nice beer. At 1.020 it will still have some sweetness in the taste that should still ferment out.

1.020 seems a tad high a gravity for 8 days in, but it could be you had a day or two delay before fermentation began at the start. Make sure to keep your fermentation temperatures in the correct range. If you have a way to keep them constant in a range 68-70 would be good for that yeast.

Cheers

 

[meatwad]

Thanks fellas, really appreciate it.

Earlybird- cool blog, keep it up!