So last saturday I brewed up my first ever batch of homebrew. According to the directions I recieved with the kit it reccomended 4 days in the primary. While reading on here I came across the 1,2,3 rule so I decided to follow that instead.
So since today was the 1 week mark I decided to move from my primary to my seconday. I am brewing a muntons amber malt extract kit. When first in the fermenter
OG=1.04
FG (before secondart) = 1.02
It looks like I might have been a little high on my FG. Overall the beer looked and smelled pretty good. While racking it to the secondary the liquid flowing through the tube was a nice golder color. It was a little cloudy but not too bad at all.
Once the siphon couldnt get any more liquid off the bucket I airlocked my carboy and then tasted what was left in the bucket. It definitely tasted like beer. It was a little bit bitter (green) and gritty (from the trub) but overall not too bad.
I am going to give it about 2.5 - 3 weeks in the secondary followed up with bottling and 3 weeks of aging. So far so good... I think.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Also just figured I would share the deal that I got today on CL. Picked up 3 glass carboys for 40 bucks got a 6 gal, 5 gal, and a 3 gal.
So since today was the 1 week mark I decided to move from my primary to my seconday. I am brewing a muntons amber malt extract kit. When first in the fermenter
OG=1.04
FG (before secondart) = 1.02
It looks like I might have been a little high on my FG. Overall the beer looked and smelled pretty good. While racking it to the secondary the liquid flowing through the tube was a nice golder color. It was a little cloudy but not too bad at all.
Once the siphon couldnt get any more liquid off the bucket I airlocked my carboy and then tasted what was left in the bucket. It definitely tasted like beer. It was a little bit bitter (green) and gritty (from the trub) but overall not too bad.
I am going to give it about 2.5 - 3 weeks in the secondary followed up with bottling and 3 weeks of aging. So far so good... I think.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Also just figured I would share the deal that I got today on CL. Picked up 3 glass carboys for 40 bucks got a 6 gal, 5 gal, and a 3 gal.