Well, I started my first home brew. I gotta say, the people at my local home brewing store were less than easy to get along with - I was hoping for a little direction and advice from them, but all I got were blank stares and an attitude of "you want to do what?". Regardless, I really don't care - I've been determined to do this for a while.
I am 90% sure this batch is going to be quite aweful. Not only were sanitation precautions not followed by man of the people that were helping me, we also forgot to put the lid on while cooling the wort, and the primary grains ended up resting on the bottom of our boiling pot.
I am happy to see that the beer is fermenting quite nicely right now and am preparing for the bottling stage early next week. A friend of mine lent me to glass carboy's so that I could do a secondary fermentation, but at this point I am almost more determined to go straight to bottling, let the batch finish in the bottles and start a second batch (this time paying attention to sanitation and the other details that I missed).
Thought I would share with every one - oh, and yes, I'm new here.
I am 90% sure this batch is going to be quite aweful. Not only were sanitation precautions not followed by man of the people that were helping me, we also forgot to put the lid on while cooling the wort, and the primary grains ended up resting on the bottom of our boiling pot.
I am happy to see that the beer is fermenting quite nicely right now and am preparing for the bottling stage early next week. A friend of mine lent me to glass carboy's so that I could do a secondary fermentation, but at this point I am almost more determined to go straight to bottling, let the batch finish in the bottles and start a second batch (this time paying attention to sanitation and the other details that I missed).
Thought I would share with every one - oh, and yes, I'm new here.