Week 1) I bought my beginner brew kit online, then filled in the "additional" stuff, like a 5 gal brew kettle, sanitizing tote, etc..
Week 2) mail ordered 2 kits. I stopped buying twist offs and started buying pry off beers with brown glass, even cleaned out my beer store of one brand.
Week 3) got my kits and brewed my first batch :rockin:
Started to sanitize bottles in bleach/water, clean the labels, rinse in the dishwasher (no soap). Dawned on me that I fermented in my bottling bucket and was going to need to secondary to clean my bottling bucket, so I ordered another 5 gal carboy, ordered 2 more kits (wheat beers), and a yeast started kit.
Week 4) Racked my first batch to secondary, with an amazing amount of frustration with the racking cane and siphon, after the fact was quite funny.
Week 5)Read about the large amount of foam created from fermenting wheat beers so I finally found a home brew store picked up a 6.5 gal ferment bucket, auto siphon, and everything else that caught the attention of this wide eyed kid in a candy store.
Brewed a wheat. :rockin:
Week 6) Bottled my first beer and discovered the difference in commercial beer bottles. Using the capper from my beginner kit I started to cap, after the fourth bottle I started having problems clamping on correctly, at the end I was breaking bottles. Another trip to the home brew store for a bench top capper, and of course another 6.5 gal fermentation bucket (and anything else that caught the eye of this wide eyed kid in the candy store).
During this week, I can see my coworkers getting bored about me talking about the kids, I'm getting stressed about the kids (are they warm /cool enough, protected from the light, how's fermenting going, what could I have done wrong etc...).
I stressed over my priming mixture ( I chilled 2 3 day old bottles so that I could check if the carbonation seemed the same from the beginning of bottling and the end), and shared 2 tasty flat beers with the wife (she agreed, tasty).
Ordered 3 more kits, They sounded really great and matched my temp requirements, but are big brews and am talking long term commitment.
Made my first yeast starter and brewed my first stout. :rockin:
I should bottle second brew, brew another wheat this weekend
So here I am, by week six I have received a $500 credit card bill, and untold riches emptying beer bottles, and already have plans to go to the HB store for 1 or more fermentation buckets and maybe another secondary.
And I still have another week before my 1st batch has been bottled for 2 weeks
I have not even had a taste of my fully finished first brew yet.
Do I sound addicted?
Week 2) mail ordered 2 kits. I stopped buying twist offs and started buying pry off beers with brown glass, even cleaned out my beer store of one brand.
Week 3) got my kits and brewed my first batch :rockin:
Started to sanitize bottles in bleach/water, clean the labels, rinse in the dishwasher (no soap). Dawned on me that I fermented in my bottling bucket and was going to need to secondary to clean my bottling bucket, so I ordered another 5 gal carboy, ordered 2 more kits (wheat beers), and a yeast started kit.
Week 4) Racked my first batch to secondary, with an amazing amount of frustration with the racking cane and siphon, after the fact was quite funny.
Week 5)Read about the large amount of foam created from fermenting wheat beers so I finally found a home brew store picked up a 6.5 gal ferment bucket, auto siphon, and everything else that caught the attention of this wide eyed kid in a candy store.
Brewed a wheat. :rockin:
Week 6) Bottled my first beer and discovered the difference in commercial beer bottles. Using the capper from my beginner kit I started to cap, after the fourth bottle I started having problems clamping on correctly, at the end I was breaking bottles. Another trip to the home brew store for a bench top capper, and of course another 6.5 gal fermentation bucket (and anything else that caught the eye of this wide eyed kid in the candy store).
During this week, I can see my coworkers getting bored about me talking about the kids, I'm getting stressed about the kids (are they warm /cool enough, protected from the light, how's fermenting going, what could I have done wrong etc...).
I stressed over my priming mixture ( I chilled 2 3 day old bottles so that I could check if the carbonation seemed the same from the beginning of bottling and the end), and shared 2 tasty flat beers with the wife (she agreed, tasty).
Ordered 3 more kits, They sounded really great and matched my temp requirements, but are big brews and am talking long term commitment.
Made my first yeast starter and brewed my first stout. :rockin:
I should bottle second brew, brew another wheat this weekend
So here I am, by week six I have received a $500 credit card bill, and untold riches emptying beer bottles, and already have plans to go to the HB store for 1 or more fermentation buckets and maybe another secondary.
And I still have another week before my 1st batch has been bottled for 2 weeks
I have not even had a taste of my fully finished first brew yet.
Do I sound addicted?
