Hi all this is my first post.
I recently built a 5 tap keezer.
Any way I recently thought after not brewing beer for around 5 years to give it a shot.
I have NEVER sterilized my fermenter but washed it out well never sterilized my paint mixer i use to stir it all together with never had a wash fail EVER not even left in the cold shed.
This brings me to the beer brought a coopers draft kit and plain old boring sugar put it all togeather as the kit said and forgot about it for 3 weeks
I should mention i did clean this fermenter with a week bleach solution first then rinsed it then I accidentally dropped the air lock in the beer and had to fish it out with my hand! so already probably not such a good start.
Any way 3 weeks later I keged it it was very clear and a little carbonated put it in my keezer cooled it for 3 days with a little pressure on it at first to seal it up and get the air out. then 3 days later took it out shook it at 30 psi and set it to 12psi for serving waited 30 mins pulled the first taste and its the best beer I've ever made Did I just luck out with this because I was talking to a guy today who said the temps are very important and that I should use a old fridge temp controller and a heat belt among other things.
SO I guess my question is if i like the beer and do it the same next time will it be ok or did I just seriously luck out ?
I recently built a 5 tap keezer.
Any way I recently thought after not brewing beer for around 5 years to give it a shot.
I have NEVER sterilized my fermenter but washed it out well never sterilized my paint mixer i use to stir it all together with never had a wash fail EVER not even left in the cold shed.
This brings me to the beer brought a coopers draft kit and plain old boring sugar put it all togeather as the kit said and forgot about it for 3 weeks
I should mention i did clean this fermenter with a week bleach solution first then rinsed it then I accidentally dropped the air lock in the beer and had to fish it out with my hand! so already probably not such a good start.
Any way 3 weeks later I keged it it was very clear and a little carbonated put it in my keezer cooled it for 3 days with a little pressure on it at first to seal it up and get the air out. then 3 days later took it out shook it at 30 psi and set it to 12psi for serving waited 30 mins pulled the first taste and its the best beer I've ever made Did I just luck out with this because I was talking to a guy today who said the temps are very important and that I should use a old fridge temp controller and a heat belt among other things.
SO I guess my question is if i like the beer and do it the same next time will it be ok or did I just seriously luck out ?