Surely I'm due for an infection or disaster: first AG brew day, everything went right

[heyjaffy]

After brewing 11 extract or partial mash brews since January, I decided to try my hand at all grain and assembled the necessary parts over the last several weeks in the form of a 5 and 10 gallon home depot cooler, assorted stainless steel bits and pieces from bargainfittings.com and a stainless steel braid. I ordered up a few AG kits from AHS and tried my hand at the AHS Apocalypso today.

Everything seemed to go exactly as planned - I hit my temps spot on, the coolers held temps within a degree, and post-boil volume was spot on and OG exactly right according to the recipe. I haven't had extract brews go this well!

I'm fully expecting an infection or some anomaly to occur at this point to make up for the perfect brew day....

 

[beaksnbeer]

Prep = easy going brew day enjoy a homebrew for job well done

 

[jldc]

If you've brewed 11 extract/PM brews this year and been reading on this site, there really is no reason why things shouldn't have gone well. Adequate preparation, excellent information, great beer.

Good work, sir.

L

 

[Calder]

I'm going on 106 brews since I last dumped a batch. That doesn't include many batches of cider (none of which have been bad).

 

[bcryan]

stay positive amigo. it will be fine. i'm doing my first AG on monday. can't wait