Impatiently waiting on bottling day..

[Pantherjon]

Hi all, newb brewer from SE Georgia! Some pesky bug sneaked up on me and bit me , now I have this home-brewing fever! LOL

Put my very 1st ever batch into my LBK(Little Brown Keg- but am sure you all know that..lol) last Tuesday. It is the Grand Bohemian Czech Pils..Seemed simple enough; after I gathered a few supplies from wally world. Fermentation has been going splendidly as far as I can tell. Had a really good and active 'krausen' after about 12 hours, so much so that a tiny bit of the foam seeped out of one of the notches on the lid. Brief moment of panic but realized it shouldn't be a problem..I had mis-read somehow the instructions and thought 1 week in the fermenter was good, until coming here and re-reading the instructions for it to be 2 weeks..Oh well, so no bottling today..BUT, I did go ahead and pull a small(2oz or so) sample and gave it a taste test..Kind of a sweet, fruity taste. Not very bitter but did leave a kind of funky after taste..It doesn't taste great, but not horrible..So, hopefully(fingers crossed), next Tuesday it will have more of a beer taste(after evaluating the taste, it is more of a cider taste right now) and be ready for bottling..

So, since I have a 2nd LBK sitting here I decided I might as well start 'filling the pipeline' and got another batch rolling! This one is the German Weissbier..Did everything to the letter on the instructions except for the part when I added the wort into the keg..I read here that aeration is an important ingredient for good yeast performance. So, after pouring the wort into the LBK I transferred it back and forth between the keg and my boiling kettle like 4 times thinking 'if that don't aerate it nothing will'! I then proceeded to 'pitch' in the yeast and placed the keg in my closet to ferment.

Hopefully these turn out well as I am looking at brewing bigger batches in the future! Just received my 1st 5G kit and have a 2nd one on its way..I also have a 1G kit on the way for 'experimentation' brews..Yeah, that bug hit me hard!

 

[Rhumbline]

Welcome and good luck.

Of all the challenges in brewing, patience is the biggest hurdle.

 

[wyccad915]

I'm right there with you. I'm working to get a pipeline going too. I have a hefe that is ready and I am drinking (it's fantastic), a stout going into bottles tomorrow, and hopefully Friday I will be brewing a dunkel. Idk if I'll try and use both fermenting buckets of mine this time or not. I kind of want to do an oatmeal stout, too.

 

[slym2none]

Congrats on making beer! If you'd like more Mr. Beer only type talk, you can go to the forum on the MrB site. It's a pretty good resource for just starting out with the LBK, but you'll be back here soon enough. FTR, I brew 2.5 gallon batches in the LBK, but I don't use the MrB ingredients any longer. Too expensive, and I have time on my hands a lot. Soon, my first all-grain batch!