My first ever Home Brew! Cheers all!

[DonGavlar]

Hi all,

Just popped open my first ever brew and it tastes great. I don’t know wether its just because I made it or wether it genuinely just tastes great but I’m very pleased.

Theres a few things that could definitely be improved like clarity, after taste etc but all in all im pleased with my first attempt.

This beer was just an extract, my others in the fermenters are now all grain. However, the recipe was as follows:

Organic light LME 6lbs
Crystal 40 8oz
Crystal 10 8oz
Columbus 1oz 60min
Cascade 1oz 15 min
Cascade 1oz 0min
US-05

The beer came out a lot darker than expected but still, the taste is there! There won’t be any issues getting through the rest of the 5 gallons of this stuff!

Cheers all

Pic doesn't seem to work, heres the link: http://tinypic.com/r/j9bm1f/9

 

[DonGavlar]

for some reason the picture isn't working!

 

[JohnSand]

It looks beautiful. (I clicked the link)
Congrats on your success!

 

[Remos112]

Seems you did great! Cheers!

 

[aprichman]

Good job

 

[Metalhead_brewer]

Looks delicious, welcome to your first of many many great beers that awaits you ahead

 

[Remos112]

Took the liberty to post your linked photo

 

[azmark]

Extract will come out darker if you boil all of the extract for the entire boil.

 

[cubalz]

Congratulations! Welcome to the first of many! This is a hobby that never gets old.

 

[DonGavlar]

Took the liberty to post your linked photo

Thank you all! And remos, how did you post the pic in the end? Just so i know for future reference?

 

[Roland_deschain]

Congratulations! One bit of advice, don’t say it was JUST an extract beer......you have made a good beer and that’s the only important part!

 

[Nate187]

The color alone makes me want to taste it. Cheers

 

[Remos112]

Thank you all! And remos, how did you post the pic in the end? Just so i know for future reference?

Take tour photo in fullscreen and right click it, then choose copy image addres. Then in this forum write your post and click on the icon of the mountain with the sun above, then paste your image address there, either by right clicking paste or ctrl+v

 

[BrewZer]

Good on ya! If you can drink it, it's "good."

 

[jlinz]

Good work! Make sure to post #100 as well.

 

[Morriganpoe]

Looks delicious! Congratulations!

Sent from my SM-S320VL using Home Brew mobile app

 

[justin8404]

And you are hooked. Congrats!!!

 

[KYBLUE]

Awesome

 

[scooterm]

You’re off to a great start! Prost.

 

[smurfjuice]

Congratz, and welcome to the madness ...

 

[snd1990]

Extract beers usually tend to be on darker side. There is several things you can do to lessen the darkness. ( add half of extract in beginning and last half with 15 min left, use dry malt instead of liquid malt, do full batch boil, etc)
For more detailed info just look up "extract beer too dark". A lot of brewers switch to all-grain to achieve the lighter color that is hard to achieve with extract brewing. Good Luck and welcome to the Addiction, uh I mean hobby!! Lol [emoji481]

 

[PADave]

Congratulations! Now get the next one brewed!