What was your first brew?

[rustbucket]

Best Brewer Oktoberfest... lol this was quite a few years ago.. about 4... first all grain was a Guinness clone which i had to dumb 75% of it, cuz it taste like butt....

 

[beergolf]

My first homebrew was a Brewer's Best APA kit. Came out pretty good....got hooked and brewed 3 more batches before I even tasted that beer. Good thing I got on this forum and learned to disregard to kit instructions. I kept it in the primary for three weeks and 3 weeks in the bottle. Worth the wait.

Now I brew almost every weekend.

 

[phrogpilot73]

Brewer's Best Bold Series American Nut Brown. It's also only one of two batches that I bottle conditioned. The addiction is strong with this one!!

 

[BillyBock]

Brewers Best Weizenbier kit. Got good reviews from my buddy who had never had a homebrew. I think that he has caught the bug too!

 

[jonwolgamuth]

After a quick search I couldn't find anything, so I thought that I would ask.

My first brew was a can and kilo Munton's Wheat beer kit that my SWMBO bought for me. She didn't know the monster she was creating :cross:. After I finished fermenting it, I concluded that it wasn't the worst beer I had ever had, but it wasn't the best either.

What was everyone's first brew here?

I think it was circa 1992. A can of hopped light malt and a bunch of corn sugar. And I loved it! ;-)

 

[SwampassJ]

Orfy's Mild Mannered ale (AG) back in March 2010.

 

[devilishprune]

I think it was circa 1992. A can of hopped light malt and a bunch of corn sugar. And I loved it! ;-)

Corn sugar? You must have been a master brewer.

I pitched all cane sugar and just stirred it right into the primary about an hour after I pitched the yeast. I forgot to do it when I first made it. I also thought that the ABV was around 2% because I didn't know what the sugar was for! I was like, "Why are these 2% beers making me so drunk?"

Those were the good ol' days.

 

[Lumberg1]

Mine was a Newcastle clone kit from my LHBS. it came out so good I was instantly hooked. Until then I was a BMC drinker and after my eyes were opened to homebrew I never looked back.

 

[cervezarara]

I think it was circa 1992. A can of hopped light malt and a bunch of corn sugar. And I loved it! ;-)

Mine was in '92 also, and I think it was Munton & Fison's hopped English Brown ale kit, with half corn sugar. (I still have the bag of sugar!) I had Joy of Homebrewing and thought I was a pro. This batch tasted like cider and I nearly gave up the hobby on the spot. Fortunately I had a neighbor who swapped a bomber of his homebrew for a 12 oz of mine. When I saw how good his was, I decided to improve my process, and he never gave me crap about the a$$-tasting beer I gave him.

 

[tslayer]

Last month was my first and it was a Coopers Lager. Several brewing books later and I am now working on a Belgian Wit with my own little twist. I think I am hooked!

 

[Teromous]

First homebrew was a cider but first beer I think was a wit. It turned out pretty good. Recipe I think was from a book and ingredients were LHBS. Friends liked it but I improved the recipe the next go around.

 

[Beer_Eugenics]

Bass Ale Clone from Midwest.

 

[chiteface]

MrBeer Canadian Lager. Actually turned out ok...but i no longer brew mrbeer or lagers.

 

[Tommy1858]

My first was not for drinking. I was using a 20 oz coke bottle with aquarium tubeing poked thru a hole in the lid to make a Co2 generator for a planted fish aquarium.As it turns out the crushed frosted mini wheat cerial and sugar after fermenting produced a smell that had to be tasted! it smelled better than it tasted but hey it was my first homebrew so to speak.my first real home brew was a Mr.Beer amber ale kit.My first all grain was a crazy Stout Recipe

 

[PhelanKA7]

Brewer's Best Tripel kit brewed in February '09. It was one my favorite beers but I still haven't done a kit since. It aged pretty well too. I cracked two bottles I saved open in 2011 and while it had lost some head retention it hadn't oxidized at all. I guess I just had that natural ability

 

[hogwash]

I think mine was the Colorado Cowgirl's American Brown Ale from Papazian's "The Homebrewer's Companion." I know it was a brown ale but I'm not totally sure it was this one. I remember being pretty pleased with the results. This was in 1994 and I brewed it with a friend of mine who is largely responsible for my love of beer and is unfortunately now deceased. I need to either re-brew this or come up with something similar as a tribute brew.

I remember we did a porter that was called "Blackbeard's Butt" that I recall really liking. This was from one of the recipe books that were titled by style. In other words, they had a book called simply "Porter", one called "Stout", etc. Anyone else remember those books? I'd love to go back and brew some of those early recipes that I/we did just to see if they jog my taste bud memory.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

A one gallon, all grain Irish Red. It was pretty good, and I decided that 5-6 weeks was way too long to wait for only a few bottles, so I went right back for the 5 gallon equipment. Then decided that bottling five gallons would be a pain, so got kegging setup. That was an expensive month.

 

[spearko520]

raspberry porter. a long time ago. still chasing the dragon...

 

[jmprdood]

1988, a simple brown ale recipe from the back of Charlie P's book. LME, steeping grains, and dry yeast. Wasn't great, but wasn't bad - the rest is history...

 

[HawksBrewer]

First brew was a coffee chocolate stout, extract w/ specialty grains and adjuncts recipe that I got from my brother. Turned out delicious and only had one or two massive boilovers

 

[Jayhem]

I only primary fermented for 10 days and then bottled. I also fermented too warm but the beer came out good for a first attempt! All 50 bottles were gone in 2 weeks!

 

[Klickmania]

First beer I made was the Mr. Beer West Coast Pale Ale kit. My brother and I got the Mr. Beer kit for christmas this past year from our uncle, but had I wanted to get my own equipment long before that. I figured I'd give it a shot since it was free and if it came out good that was a plus. All I have to say, it was cidery as hell but we drank all of em. Came with the American Devil IPA kit as well. I added some cane sugar to the boil thinking I was savvy, but it just ended smelling and tasting like cat piss in the fermenter. Didn't even bottle it.

First "actual" beer was Charlie Papazians Palilalia IPA from the Joy of Homebrewing. Pretty much followed the directions to a t and it came out pretty good. Undercarbed because I threw them in the fridge right after I bottled them, but I took them out and let them sit for a few days and they turned out ok. Definitely hooked. I have been doing partial mashes and for the last 3 batches I've been getting into doing full boils on my 7 gallon turkey fryer. When money allows I'll definitely be getting all grain equipment.

 

[jwalker1140]

Newcastle clone kit put together by LHBS w/ Safale US-05. Notes don't indicate ferm temp but probably in the mid-70s. Notes also say it tasted metallic and not much like Newcastle. However, it was beer so I considered it a reasonably successful first attempt.

 

[wailingguitar]

A porter, I guess you would call it... Munton and Fison dark LME, some chocolate malt, don't remember which hops, probably Fuggle or Cascade... Put some baker's chocolate in either my first or second, which was also a porter, but don't remember which one it was... Munton and Fison dry yeast which was, at the time, the best dry yeast you could get.

The first one was odd, didn't use enough extract for some stupid reason, second batch was quite good and my boss at the time (Larry Bell, I was actually already working in a brewery as packaging director) was very complimentary "Wow, that's good!"

This would have been (probably September) 1989. I was packaging director at the time and moved over to brewing very shortly after.

 

[phoenixs4r]

Simple pale ale kit thrown together by a local home brew shop.

It was delicious. Luckily a friends father who brewed beer came by right before I pitched my yeast in my still boiling kettle, could have turned ugly. LOL

 

[Piratwolf]

Orange-Honey Wheat kit. Meh.

 

[jamboparty]

Love that Booster! LOL

A gift from the wife when I mentioned that I was interested in learning about this homebrew stuff.

Now she has no one to blame but herself for all the gear in the basement and the 20 ft. tall hops pole in the back yard

 

[mattmcl]

Mine was a can simply labelled "Dogbolter." It had the hops already mixed in, and came with a dry yeast pack. This was around 1989.

 

[BootstrapBill]

Mine was a clone of Deschutes Red Chair Northwestern Pale Ale. Didn't turn back after that, came out pretty awesome for my first beer. I cheated a little though and kegged it.

 

[Krazykripple]

my first was a brewcraft Munich lager. i fermented it in the mid 20's C (70's F). needless to say it was terrible