Picked up the grain for Yoops IPA, broke Down three more pounds of hops, put together the hops and labeled them for tomorrow's brew day and pulled out all of my equipment. Early morning brew day here I come.
Tinhorn said:What kind of cat stops you from brewing ? That's one seriously uncool cat !
brandon91 said:Took a gravity reading of my first batch of homebrew that has been in primary for about 5 days. It's the first time I took the lid off since I pitched and sealed it up. I was spraying star san on everything and being so careful about the process I felt like I might as well be defusing a bomb.
Welcome to the great hobby and passion of home brewing! Congrats on your first batch. Also glad to hear you are taking your sanitary practices seriously. If it were me I'd just let it hang out for a couple more weeks in primary before I even looked at it again. I do remember having the first batch anxiety and impatience as well but with all that said I still have to TRY and convince you letting the beer be for the next couple weeks is the best thing you can do for it. Check back in two weeks from today and your beer will no doubt be ready to bottle. Also that way you'll save some beer by not wasting it on so many gravity checks.
Hope the brew came out great and hope you stick with it. Oh yea... What did you brew?
Cheers
Dave
brandon91 said:Hah, ya I was probably being a little excessive with my spray bottle of star san but it just felt right. Along with constantly monitoring it's temperature in the swamp cooler and stressing hoping it will be alright, I feel like I've just had my first born. And it's a milk stout kit I got for half off when I ordered my starter equipment . I'm already looking into building a mash tun for going all grain and browsing craigslist for cheap equipment all the time, is there a name for this disease?
slbradley01 said:Cherry saison..??...sounds interesting, I can see the sour saison going really well with the sweet cherries. May try that in the spring. Recipe?
Took my 2nd gravity reading of my RIS. 1.028. I dont want her to drop any more than a couple points from here. Go to sleep Yeast! 1.024-1.028 would be perfect.
With only 1 lb of roasted barley in my 23 lb grist ~4%, it is still shining through a little too much for me at this point. Was hoping for it to play more of a background role. If she dries out any more i can only imagine the roasted character being more apparent.
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