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Ah come on, you got to do it in a ice bath a couple time before you can truly appreciate a wort chiller. :) |
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Popped open one of my first batch of home brew (brown ale) on Sunday. It was only a week after bottling, but it actually tasted pretty good. By this Sunday I think the carbonation should be at full strength and it will be even better. Thanks again to everyone for the great advice on getting me started. :thumb:
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Sweet dude!
The only other tip I will give you is go easy on the sharing. I know you want people to taste what you have created, but trust me, it goes FAST. So if you do drink a lot or share a lot, just know when to start the other one so you dont have to wait as long. |
Canadian Ale.
Grains: .5# cara pils .5# Canadian 2 row barley (or any suitable 2 row substitute) Extract: 4# light malt liquid extract(or 1 3.3# can if your supplier does not bulk extracts) 2# light spray malt Hops: 2 oz. willamette hops (pellet) Yeast: WLP001 California Ale Steep: 20 mins. Single rinse Boil:30 mins, first oz hops at boil, 2nd oz at end of boil. pitch yeast at 70 deg. primary 7-10 days Secondary 2 weeks. (First at ambient, second at 40 deg.) carbonate at 22psi for 7 days. Or prime and bottle. Age 30 days before refrigerating. You will like it. edit. If you are still bottling, secondary should be done at ambient (60-72) Its been a while since ive bottled. |
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I am in the middle of two batches right now which will be in primary tonight. One is the Canadian that I posted. I will brew lagers and pils next because my basement will be up to temp enough to ferment by then. |
finished. two batches tucked away in our spare room. First brews since just after the holidays. Three weeks I brew a pils and I am pondering the other lager. I get two shots at these then its back to ales.
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For a completey different beer from almost the same recipe I filed above. Add 1# cara amber to the grains (single rinse still ok, bigger rinse pot needed) and change the yeast to Wyeast British Ale 1135.
The Brew goes from a lighter ale with a nice herbal nose to a maltier and more full bodied brew. Thats without even changing hops or extracts. This is a good excercise to enjoy what a different yeast can do to your beer. The pound of grains will add some body and malt, true, as well as darkening the ale a bit. But the big difference here will be the yeast. |
Anyone have any good supplier recommendations (looking for recipe kits, mainly)? If not, I'm gonna try out Midwest Supplies (thanks 1moreTRich). I was using Brewgadgets but wanted to find something perhaps a little cheaper.
I have now brewed 3 batches. The first one was a brown ale and it turned out pretty well. Most people that tried it enjoyed it. The one person who said he didn't was a regular Bud Select drinker so I take that opinion with a grain of salt. The 2nd batch was a porter. I don't know if I messed up during the process somewhere, put some in the fridge too early, or its simply not a great tasting beer. It tasted a bit sweet. I will try it again now that it has had a few weeks fermentation time and see if it has gotten any better. The most recent one is a pale ale. This turned out well, too. While its not as great a pale as Blvd or Sierra Nevada, it is pretty good and I will definitely be enjoying drinking those. Again, I tried it after about a week to a week and a half of bottling. I know it will get better with a little more aging so I'm happy with the way it turned out. I even loved smelling those extra hops when I was brewing this one. :) |
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