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Re: My first brew ever - a mini-BIAB All Amarillo APA

Just a quick revisit of this thread to say Hi! Things have happened in the meantime. Wise forum members have quite correctly predicted that a mutiny will sooner or later happen in the household, and that stovetop beer making in the kitchen will not be tolerated anymore. And I was quite occupied with...

Re: My first brew ever - a mini-BIAB All Amarillo APA

Hi Scott, I am not getting email notifications either - am kinda busy these days and can hardly follow the forum closely... Nice to heat there are other photographers here too. Digital convenience beats old camera beasts for sure. For my fieldwork, I am now almost exclusively using iPad pro, which a...

Re: My first brew ever - a mini-BIAB All Amarillo APA

Finally, several posters in the thread have very kindly commented on the photos. They were quite simple to make and I think they are not of particular technical or artistic quality. A few brief tips (that's all there is to it, really): above all, focus (haha) on the important things and leave the un...

Re: My first brew ever - a mini-BIAB All Amarillo APA

But how does it taste?! https://i.postimg.cc/T2tV2kWw/1st-beer-tasting-5.jpg I may not be all that objective, but anyway, this is what I think: It's pretty darn good! Bubbles leave a bit of a sting, so it's probably slightly overcarbonated (I did dose sugar at the upper recommended limit), but nothi...

Re: My first brew ever - a mini-BIAB All Amarillo APA

The Big Day has arrived! Beer has been sitting in bottles for 2 weeks now. Time for official testing! [Full disclosure: unofficial testing was done after 1 week has passed, but pssst!] How does it look? How does it taste? https://i.postimg.cc/SQgLdyqV/1st-beer-tasting-1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/y6QC...

Re: My first brew ever - a mini-BIAB All Amarillo APA

Hi Inconceivable, and thanks for your kind words. I can tell you I started out with stove top brewing and sink and ice pack chilling just like you, and now I brew exclusively outdoors with two huge gas burners, 3 giant kettles, a fermentation fridge, a keezer, and I'm about to buy another second che...

Re: My first brew ever - a mini-BIAB All Amarillo APA

Hi guys, sorry for my late reply - I was on holiday this week and I am writing this very quickly before going away from home for a few days more. As previously written, I was ready to bottle my first brew one week ago, and had everything sterilized and ready, but just before starting to siphon out o...

Re: My first brew ever - a mini-BIAB All Amarillo APA

Well, as not much is happening in the forum right now, I might as well add an update to this thread to keep the site going... This is how the fermentation vessel looked yesterday, inside and out: https://i.postimg.cc/J764Rr8c/firstbrew2-1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/2jcvgNXg/firstbrew2-2.jpg Today, 6 f...

Re: My first brew ever - a mini-BIAB All Amarillo APA

Scott and mally, Thank you for reading this through and for your kind comments! I guess you now qualify for the promised beer - whether this will be reward or punishment remains to be seen :lol: Only thing, when cooling, provided you don't have water from the faucet flowing, I would leave the lid of...

Re: My First Post! - Post here to become Fully Registered

Hi Scott and thank you for the warm welcome! My first brewing adventure is now posted and can be seen here: http://www.biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=152&t=3986 . I will definitely come back with questions, but my initial goal was just to try it. In this respect, let me paraphrase my favorite writer...

Re: My first brew ever - a mini-BIAB All Amarillo APA

Whoa! This is it for now (I suppose I must buy a beer to anybody who bothered to read the full thread up to here!). I would love to hear your comments, advice and criticisms of my procedure. But first, let me put down my own conclusions (as much as they can be made before actually tasting the final ...

Re: My first brew ever - a mini-BIAB All Amarillo APA

End of boil! Predicted SG was 1.058, my sample tested 1.056. Expected post-boil volume was 12.13 L, I have managed 11.60 L. I was slightly worried about the pH of the mash as our tap water, perfect as it is, coming from the Alps nearby, is on the alkaline side (pH = 7.5-ish). Nevertheless, I was hap...

Re: My first brew ever - a mini-BIAB All Amarillo APA

Mashing was done in the oven, set to 65 C - another brilliant tip from this forum. No worries about keeping the temperature constant. For timing, the oven timer/alarm was set to 90 min - very convenient. https://i.postimg.cc/ryhshwnq/firstbrew-4.jpg After putting the grain in, I could only add about...

Re: My First Post! - Post here to become Fully Registered

Hello everyone! New brewer here. 1. Where are you from? Slovenia, Europe. Slovenia is perhaps not known as a brewing country, but the first written mentions of beer and brewing ingredients and of a brewery date back to 1160 and 1290, respectively. Modern (post-18th century) brewing mainly followed t...

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