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New Article: The Best Beer to Start Brewing
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The Best Beer to Start Brewing
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For Christmas or for your last birthday your wife/parents/kids bought
you a homebrew kit. Maybe you treated yourself to that collection of
the odd assortment of equipment: a bucket, a kettle, a thermometer, a
hydrometer, maybe a couple of carboys. You want to brew a beer.
Please feel free to make comments here.
A really good short article that makes an excellent point. Since I just finished my first brewing (going to secondary tomorrow night) this was pointed right at me. I chose a classic british pale ale. It's a style I like a lot, similar to Bass. I didn't want to try to recreate a bass ale, but I did want to try to have a familar style to aim at. If I did a barleywine, or a belgian I wouldn't even know if I got close.
Cappy, Good luck with the brew. A British pale ale is a good beer to start with. It should mature quickly. How long have you kept it in the primary? You might not need to do a secondary. Going straight to bottle or keg with this one might save you some unwanted oxidation. No matter how careful you are, transfering to a secondary fermenter is going to get some oxygen into your brew. Typically, I'll only go with a secondary fermentation if I have a beer that needs long conditioning times or still has clarity issues after two weeks (at most) in the primary. Cheers! -Donavan
theangler wrote:
Cappy, Good luck with the brew. A British pale ale is a good beer to start with. It should mature quickly. How long have you kept it in the primary? You might not need to do a secondary. Going straight to bottle or keg with this one might save you some unwanted oxidation. No matter how careful you are, transfering to a secondary fermenter is going to get some oxygen into your brew. Typically, I'll only go with a secondary fermentation if I have a beer that needs long conditioning times or still has clarity issues after two weeks (at most) in the primary. Cheers! -Donavan
I had it in the primary for 5 days then moved it to the secondary yesterday with a little knox to help clarify it. It had a FG of 1.010. I will bottle it in another week, or when ever it looks clear enough. I did a tasting, and both my wife and I were completely surprised by how good it tasted. I'm even more excited now.
Tasting good is what counts! Cheers!
My first brew was actually Mead. I bought the Joy of Homebrewing book and I don't remember what beer I tried making first. My first few batches I remember came out bad as I was trying to sanitize with Bleach and water and it sucked. I talked to local brewmasters and they suggested using Iodophor so that's when I started using it and still do.
Beers I make the most are a pumpkin ale, and a lager that I made twice and was very good but I can't find the recipe for. I haven't brewed in t wo years, tried a pumpkin ale and it came out bad. I am now brewing a pumpkin ales again and it seems to be doing good so far. I plan on brewing a lot more. I am in the process of looking for recipes for wine for elderberries, grapes, and plums.
Made a 5 gallon batch of elderberry last year and it was great. Used bread yeast, a red wing crock, and bottled it in 6 weeks (loose caps). It was yeasty at first but after 6 months started to smooth out real nice and the last few bottles a year later were perfect.
DC
I was excited to see a new article!
Then I realized it was just fishing up old posts.
By repling does that make me an accesory to the crime.
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