I'm brewing! I'm brewing!

[Brewer_Bob]

After a long time of talking and researching I am FINALLY brewing my first batch of beer! It is a Stone Pale Ale clone. I'm standing here steeping my grains at the moment and it ALREADY smells great.

 

[SoonerDoc]

No one can accuse you of rushing into things!
Congrats on the first brew!

 

[Andy_LV]

got a scratch n sniff jpeg?

grats!

 

[Brewer_Bob]

Thanks! I have added the LME and now the bittering hops. No disasters yet.

 

[wacko]

Good luck waiting for it to finish

 

[tvtoms]

Save the steeped grains and bake breads with it. Tastes great. Good luck and congrats!

 

[Brewer_Bob]

FINISHED! Well, with the brewing part anyway. Not counting cleaning time, and I was meticulous about it, it took 3 1/2 hours from first putting the kettle on the stove to putting the top on my fermenter. I hit my initial specific gravity spot on and I tasted the sample I took and am very pleased with the flavor.

The one area that needs the most fine tuning is my cool down technique. I had a wort chiller and a pre-chiller but my pot is pretty wide and the wort only made contact with about 1/4 of the chiller. Not very efficient. It took 28 minutes to reach 80F.

 

[Fletch78]

Was it Austin or Brewmasters that made you right in the embassy? Or am I thinking of someone elsE?

 

[wacko]

The one area that needs the most fine tuning is my cool down technique. I had a wort chiller and a pre-chiller but my pot is pretty wide and the wort only made contact with about 1/4 of the chiller. Not very efficient. It took 28 minutes to reach 80F.

Did you stir it around while it was cooling? This speeds things up a lot.

 

[Brewer_Bob]

Was it Austin or Brewmasters that made you right in the embassy? Or am I thinking of someone elsE?

That's me. It was Austin.