Your first Brew

[cronxitawney]

My first brew was an English Pale Ale extract kit w/steeping grains. It was delicious, but didn't last very long

 

[beerbuddy]

My first was an EZ-Brew kit from my LHBS which was basically a Coopers IPA kit with some added DME and 1 oz of cascade hops. Still tasted better than the BMC stuff and quickly graduated to AG a few batches later.

 

[PseudoChef]

First official was the Mr. Beer Pale Ale. I used wlp1056 and added some centennial of my own, though.

First 5 gallon batch was the Nut Brown extract + steeping grains from Northern Brewer.

Was AG after that.

 

[Junebug]

My first was an American amber ale, an extract kit put together by my local HBS. Brewed it just last may.

 

[AFAJ Brew Guy]

My first brew was a no boil 2 cans of extract ale style pils. Been two weeks in the bottle. It was good, it was that little bug which bit me and got me into this hobby!

 

[BeerNWStyle]

I brewed my first batch on Monday and it’s fermenting away at this very moment. It’s a Scotch Ale extract recipe which I can’t wait to taste!

 

[Geekboy]

Well I just started brewing again after taking several years off. My first brew is an American Amber Ale that my LHBS put together. I just bottled it last night. It was definitely a learning experience. I made a lot of mistakes, but despite that it still tastes great! I just bottled it last night.


I already have my second batch fermenting. It's an Irish Red Ale put together from the same LHBS. Now I have to go out and get more ingredients. I want to brew this weekend.

 

[anti-bud]

my first was an amarillo pale ale extract kit, its in seconday fermentation right now so i have no report on how it turned out. i also have a honey weizen and a high gravity pale ale going that i added 2 extra pounds of plain dme to. yummy, and funny i hope.

 

[Rick_R]

Type: Extract
Date: 11/18/2006
Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Boil Size: 2.98 gal
Boil Time: 60 min

Ingredients:

Amount Item Type % or IBU
6 lbs Pale Liquid Extract (8.0 SRM) Extract 82.76 %
1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 13.79 %
4.0 oz Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 3.45 %
0.50 oz Nugget [13.00 %] (60 min) Hops 16.8 IBU
0.50 oz Williamette [5.50 %] (30 min) Hops 5.5 IBU
0.50 oz Williamette [5.50 %] (15 min) Hops 3.5 IBU

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.044 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.043 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.012 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.008 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.26 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 4.56 %
Bitterness: 25.8 IBU Calories: 187 cal/pint
Est Color: 18.4 SRM

Not sure what yeast I used; didn't record it I just now notice.

Rick

 

[ThebrewdawG]

Mine was a Mr. Beer pale ale. Had the 5g kit on order before I ever bottled a single brew. "Sometimes you just know"!

 

[duker]

Mine is Autum Amber Ale, I actually tried my first homebrew a few weeks ago from a friend at work (Mr. Beer recvd as gift in Dec.), I was hooked, purchased a 5 gal kit and a away I went, will be bottling my first batch this weekend, we keep bouncing ideas off each other daily My buddy has upgraded to a 5 gal set up, purchased a kegerater will drop in keg this weekend...It will be tough keepin' up with the Jones's

 

[JMSparty08]

"Williamston Wheat" Wheat beer. Been conditioning for almost a week. Looking forward to popping one open in about a week or so.

 

[Desert_Sky]

mine was the Light Ale kit from B3

6lbs ultralight LME
1lb 10L

Cascades @ 60 & 5

IIRC

 

[BlindLemonLars]

First batch was a Bass clone recipe, provided by my LHBS, in 1982. I still go to the same shop! I no longer have the recipe, and the current one they provide is quite different. As I recall, it was a can of hopped LME, a 3lb bag of DME, an oz or two of fuggles and one of the British Wyeast smack packs.

Back then, my "starter kit" came with a 5 gallon carboy which was used as a primary, even for a five gallon batch. It was common practice to ferment with just 4 gallons of liquid to allow some headspace, then top up to 5 gallons when bottling. Can't say I see anybody using that technique these days.

And yes, I still have and use the same carboy, as a secondary now.

 

[Jaeger48]

My first was a Belgian dubbel that I bottled on Saturday and my second beer was the weissenbeir in Papazian's book. I think my starter got infected so I'll drink it out (not horrible just not good) and now my third batch is a higher hopped APA.

 

[Judd]

Mine was last May. Simplest possible APA kit from the LHBS - Hopped LME, Can-Add-A, ancient packet of Cooper's dry yeast. It was decent.

 

[PUD]

extract with grains dry stout from austinhomebrew. turned out so good i spoiled my next two batches. doh! still got me hooked and still empting my pocket book on homebrew every chance i get!

 

[WhyTee]

My first batch, included exactly the following ingredients:

1 can of prehopped LME. Nut brown
2 lbs corn sugar
5 gallons water
1 pkg yeast, taped to bottom of said can

Well the beer came out pretty terrible and I finally called it "WhyTee's after hours ale". As in, damn it we're out of beer and we can't buy anymore, let's drink that stuff.

If it wasn't for HBT I probably would have never tried again, but instead i've got one more in bottles and one more in my second fermenter Cheers everyone.

 

[z987k]

my first was Oak Barrel's Black Death Stout:

http://oakbarrel.com/beermaking/ingredient_kit_blkdeath.shtml

it was a GREAT beer, just don't drink most of it by yourself in a weekends time or you WILL get the black death...no leaving the bathroom for a while after that!

EDIT: lol, i love that they haven't filled in the description...it should read: warning, may cause BM of death!

I don't have the ingredients, unfortunately...

I bet that's just from not being used to drinking lots of yeast.

 

[DeathBrewer]

lol, maybe. that plus drinking WAY too much. it WAS a damn good brew...

 

[MULE]

English Pale Ale extract kit. It was extremely delicious after aging for about a month and a half.

It did cause power farting the next day though.

 

[chthonik]

DFH 60m "clone" recipe worked up by LHBS. Much darker than it should have been, but still tasted great. WAY undercarbed though. Extract with steeped grains.

1 year ago in March. I brew with 2 other guys, now we're doing all grain (though we'll probably do some extract and grains ocassionally when we're low on home brew!- full boils though)

 

[Beer Lover]

Doing my first now which is an Over Under Oatmealt stout w/extract and steeped grains. Needs some more time, but sure smelled good when I racked it!

 

[MESmith]

My first is the Mr Beer came with the kit High Country Canadian hopped extract. Though I changed the recipe. Instead of booster (sugar) I added 1.5 lbs of amber LME and 5 min boil I added 1/4 oz of Amarillo hops. I don't know what the OG was because I didn't have a hygrometer but it is now 1.015 after 2 weeks and 4 days. Still a little cloudy I think I am going to put it in a secondary for a few more days maybe it will get down to 1.010 then I will bottle. So far from what I have sampled its pretty smooth with a VERY grapefruit finish that does not linger.

 

[03mustgt]

Currently working on my first, a Midas Touch clone.

 

[hefeweizen]

My first batch is still in Primary Fermentation...a hefeweizen. Can't wait to taste and start on my second batch.

-Ron

 

[TinmanDan]

My first batch was a Brewer's Best German Oktoberfest kit - 6.6 lbs of extract and steeped grains...turned out great! I highly recommend BB kits...pretty economical for the beginner, great instructions, and, best of all, it's pretty tough to mess up if you follow the directions. My brew was excellent!

 

[sudsmonkey]

I'm proud to say that Mr. Beer took my brewing cherry. It was a West Coast Pale Ale that tasted like ass for the first six months after bottling. I got hard up one day and drank a bottle of it. It seemed to work OK, and I was able to keep it down. The rest of my beers have been exponentionally better.
Orfy has my old Mr. Beer keg. God knows what evil he's working with it.
I'm glad to have been exposed to brewing through the kit, even happier that I stuck with it long enough to learn to make good beer.

 

[Redweasel]

My first attempt was several years ago, Mr Beer Pale Ale. Absolutely horrid! Even tried bottling in mason jars. LOL!!!
Several years later tried again, no boil Pale Ale. Horrid! No mason jars though.
Now 4 years later 3rd attempt, actualy know what I'm into and the 3rd St IPA is now in the secondary waiting for bottling. Thanks for all the help folks at HBT!!!!

 

[Scrooby]

I bought Papazian's Joy of Homebrewing, and pieced together a kit from my local farmer's co-op (yep, that's the local homebrew store), and brewed Elbro Nerkte brown ale. No fuggles to be had, so I used a combo of Styrian Goldings and Cascade. I didn't know much about hops, but oh well.

Still have about a dozen bottles left. Later brews have been improvements, but I must say, even that first brew was better than almost every beer I've ever bought in a store!