My first Brew...

[caver95]

I brewed a bluemoon clone today, now I must wait I will have a 6.5 carboy next time so I can watch, I wrote everything out.
930am-I have a fight with the wife as to the placment of the fermenting beer. She says it will smell and her mom is staying in the room next to it. I tell her thats the point, maybe it will expidite her trip.
10am- I mix a sanitizer up in the fermenting bucket.
1030- I pour 4 gals of water into my stock pot fire up the turkey fryer. add 1/2 of Cara pill 1/4 biscuit grain to my bag and steep at 150degrees.
smells like stoned wheat crackers from trader joes.
11am remove grain, turn off heat, add 6lbs of malt wheat extract mix in. added 3/4gal of water.
1107 turn fire back on.
1114 added rock candy (I forgot)
1118 wife and mother-in-law leave...Finally a little peace.
1125 wort is at 190 degrees, poor bastards that dont have a turkey fryer
1133 boiling added bittering hops turn gas down and cover pot.
1146 surf the net and wounder how I am going to wait 6-7 weeks to drink it when I am antsy at 12minutes of boiling hops
1213 added finishing hops
1228 added corriander and orange peel
1233 turned off heat, added 25 cups of ice, cooled to 110degrees moved to fermenter placed in bath. added cold water to the 5gal mark
135 steel spoon feels cool. rehydrate yeast take a hydrometer reading 10.53 put wisk in sanitizer,
150 stir the yeast with a sanitized spoon and pitch it, then I get the idea to get a real temp its 80 degrees I am ssure its not the end of the world but next time I will cool it to 65-70.
stir it and shake it for 4 minutes. Placed airlock and sealed fermenter very well. now what do I do for two weeks till I can move it to the secondary?
200 wife and mother-in-law came back, i start to drink beer.

Before my next batch I will make a wort cooler, and remember to put everything I need in the sanitizer at the start of the brew day.
Any pointers?

 

[0202]

You did place an airlock with sanitizer in the carboy, right?

Also - Excellent timing for brew day

 

[caver95]

You did place an airlock with sanitizer in the carboy, right?

I placed the air lock in the sanitzer and filled with vodka.
Whats with the timing?

 

[strider]

Keep lid off for boil.

 

[Nurmey]

I have a fight with the wife as to the placment of the fermenting beer. She says it will smell and her mom is staying in the room next to it. I tell her thats the point, maybe it will expidite her trip.
Any pointers?

Stop antagonizing your wife!

Start another batch immediately!

 

[Monghetti]

11:33...Did you boil with the lid on your pot? I asked a question about this during my first batch and got lots of responsesabout how important it is to boil the wort uncovered. With it covered, (insert here) can build up and lead to some off flavors if I'm not mistaken

 

[Joos]

Yes.start another batch next week,and one the week after.On the batch you start the following week you can enjoy a HB blue moon or 5 while you brew!you won't need to wait 6-7 weeks for a hefe.If your FG is where it should be in 7-10 days,bottle it.It'll be great a week to week and a half later

 

[caver95]

I did boil with the lid on, I kept it to a low boil would not boil with out the lid if I took it off. I did not read anything to say keep the lid off.
next time.

 

[Joos]

Just to add on to that.I'm drinking a delicious hefeweizen right now that boiled 3 weeks ago!

 

[caver95]

Stop antagonizing your wife!

its not the wife I wish to antagonize.

 

[dmob29]

its not the wife I wish to antagonize.

With that, grab another carboy and mix up some of Edworts Apfelwein. Apparently that is supposed to give off a sulfur stink. Mine didn't but I used champagne yeast and after 4 weeks... its tasting pretty damn good!

Cheers!

 

[T-rags]

I didn't want to put my fermenter (first batch!) in the basement. Too cold. The only place over 65 degrees was the living room. So I put the fermenter on the bench of our baby grand piano. My wife is totally cool with it. She likes to joke that "tom is brewing beer on our piano." Now, the bottles are in a box on that bench. Which will be OK so long as they don't explode...