First post
OK, so this is going to be a *long* first post. I've never brewed before, so realise I'm going quite far in at the deep end - but that's in part deliberate, as I tend to understand complex things better by puzzling them through as I do them rather than breaking them down into nice easy simple steps...
So, that said, this first attempt will be AG BIAB, No-chill, fermenting in the chill vessel. The only part of that which might be open for debate is the fermenting in the chill vessel. The rest,...
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Right, well, I said I'd report back once it was done, and now it is. I can't quite believe it's taken me 3 months to get from theory to practice, but at least I have!
Observations:
1) The checklist, while detailed, was very helpful. I printed it off and scribbled weights, temperatures, and observations (chiefly Brix readings) on top, much as I would have done were it a lab protocol
2) My intended plan to monitor volume (by weight, SG, temperature, and back-calculate) failed utterly. I was...
