Omegagodly
Well-Known Member
I brewed on monday and it went wonderful. I brewed an AG recipe, it being my first AG and first ever batch, the brew day went very very smooth.
I made my mash tun out of a cooler, with the hardware in the 10 gallon cooler mash tun conversion thread, found that dreaded fender washer easily, lol. Got my father in laws brothers 8 gallon turkey fryer I used for the boil kettle. I did edworts Haus Pale Ale for my first recipe. Followed the recipe exactly, my tun only lost a couple degrees over the hour, and its leak resistant although it took a couple combinations of extra rubber o-ring/washers. Boil went smoothly, the hops smelled great as thats the first i've ever smelled them. :rockin:
Cool down took a little longer than expected, and for that I plan on fashioning myself an immersion cooler. Besides that i took a gravity and I believe it was at around 1.051 as the recipe called for, but it was late and I was impatient so I let it get to pitching temp, pitched the yeast and called it a day. lol. It's bubbling away now in the other room, and I can't wait for bottling day!
Edwort stated that this recipe ferments out fast, i was just going to leave her in the primary for 3 weeks though, as i do not have a secondary and i've read on here from many people that they just leave it in primary and don't get any adverse tastes, and then carb to style and let those babies sit for 3 weeks. Anyone have a difference of opinion?
I made my mash tun out of a cooler, with the hardware in the 10 gallon cooler mash tun conversion thread, found that dreaded fender washer easily, lol. Got my father in laws brothers 8 gallon turkey fryer I used for the boil kettle. I did edworts Haus Pale Ale for my first recipe. Followed the recipe exactly, my tun only lost a couple degrees over the hour, and its leak resistant although it took a couple combinations of extra rubber o-ring/washers. Boil went smoothly, the hops smelled great as thats the first i've ever smelled them. :rockin:
Cool down took a little longer than expected, and for that I plan on fashioning myself an immersion cooler. Besides that i took a gravity and I believe it was at around 1.051 as the recipe called for, but it was late and I was impatient so I let it get to pitching temp, pitched the yeast and called it a day. lol. It's bubbling away now in the other room, and I can't wait for bottling day!
Edwort stated that this recipe ferments out fast, i was just going to leave her in the primary for 3 weeks though, as i do not have a secondary and i've read on here from many people that they just leave it in primary and don't get any adverse tastes, and then carb to style and let those babies sit for 3 weeks. Anyone have a difference of opinion?