Your first Brew

[enderwig]

My first was a Russian Imperial Stout extract with steeping grains recipe from the LHBS. 12lbs of syrup and 5 lbs of grain. Knowing what I know now, I would have chosen something a little simpler ( and faster ) for my first.

 

[quixotic]

A nut brown ale from Oak Barrel. It's still in the secondary, and I can't wait.

 

[Dr_Deathweed]

Mine was an extract pale ale from More Beer. It came with specialty grains and what I had read before that brew had mentioned nothing about them. So I just tossed them into the boil with the extract..... We live, we learn. Honestly, that brew was still hella better than the swill I had been drinking previously if for nothing more than the fact I made it myself

 

[nitrousjunkie]

My first was a vanilla weizen from www.homebrewheaven.com kegged it with priming sugar and it came out great. Since then, I've only done one other extract brew. The next one was AG and the next one will be as well. Guess once you pop you really cant stop.....

 

[sskelton68]

My first was Brewers Best Classic English Pale Ale. I totally rushed it and had it in the keg in about 2 weeks. It was ok but definitely needed another couple weeks conditioning. Taste good now. That was about a month ago. I now have an american nut brown ale in the seconday and will be brewing a scotch ale for my third batch this weekend.

 

[menschmaschine]

1st beer... looking back it's pretty funny, even though it wasn't more than a year ago. It was a 10 gallon batch of all-grain lager, with a recipe I created myself. I thought I was creating a particular German style, but in retrospect it didn't really fit well into any style with the hop types and schedule. I used a freshly constructed 3-tier keggle system, temperature controlled freezer for fermentation and lagering, and I saved wort for bottle carbonation!

After waiting 9 weeks, it actually turned out pretty good. I took it to a community party and the bottles pretty much disappeared. So for any first timers out there who've thought about just diving in head first (it takes a lot of research and studying)... I did and think I'll be doing this for a long time.