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Post #1 made 15 years ago
by jmbingham
I kegged my firt extract brew last thursday. It was a blue moon clone.Well being my first brew ,at a buddies house cooking out, and drinking I didn't take very good notes or any for that matter. :x Didn't stick to exact time lines ;) so i dont now what i did wrong in the wifes eyes or did right in mine.Way to much to drink in the florida sun :lol:
tasted right out of the primary really bitter and had an overly sweet soured fruit smell can't beleive i got my wife to taste it too. :o
5 days later it has mellowed out a bit still ay more hoppier and bitter than a blue moon. personally i like it wife doesn't. She has always been a mic girl,likes Bluemoon but loves shocktop so i trying to make a beer she would like too :| life is just a little easier if he is on board
going to try and make my first BIAB tommorrow or later in the week :D a new castle clone

just a side note did any of yall dream about your homebrews or what you were going to make next :lol:

Post #2 made 15 years ago
by PistolPatch
Congrats on your first extract jmb and better still to see you jumping straight into all-grain tomorrow.

I don't know the beers you are referring to as I am from Australia but the Newcastle clone should be an easy brew.

As for dreaming, I'd hate to recount my beer dreams. There are way too many and only a few ended up being sensible.

;)
PP
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Post #3 made 15 years ago
by jmbingham
pp
the blue moon is coors (one of our big brewing companies) belgian white,bottled and packaged to look like a craft beer. Alot of craft beer guys bash it But i like it. Newcastle is a brown ale import from england. I would have to say that those two beers helped me move from bud to the beatiful world of craft brews.

Post #5 made 15 years ago
by jmbingham
ok so I was must have been a little hard on my first beer,not that I thought it tasted bad just wasn't a true clone :) Had a beer with my neighbor he thought it tasted great even helped himself to another :) I bottled a six-pack and took to my buddies Bar B-Q for some more input, they all loved it :D its a cool feeling to hand a guy a beer you made!

Post #7 made 15 years ago
by goldy
Well,

Have had a few of my Virgin AG & I must say, mmmmmm. It turned out pretty good for mine.

Kegged my 2nd tonight & hope to brew another on Saturday.

Enjoying reading, learning & drinking the spoils now.

Thanks all
Goldy

Post #8 made 15 years ago
by PistolPatch
Top stuff Goldy ;),

Anytime I hear of someone enjoying their first AG, I always think of an old friend's PM sent to me after I wrote to him about mine. At the time I did three-vessel brewing. He replied as follows...
Love hearing about other brewers brew days. The morning I did my first AG I must have been kissed on the bum by an angel. Here was this know-nothing in the shed making AG beer with nothing more than a brew sheet from beersmith and the luxury of having watched the Basic Brewing "Stepping Up To All Grain Brewing" DVD. Boil X litres of water. Pour into mash tun add grain for mash temp of X deg C. Yeah, Yeah, follow the instructions, boil wort, should have 23 litres in fermenter at 1047. Yeah, Yeah, got 23 litres at 1047 hit 75% brewhouse efficiency, Piece Of Piss this game really, can't see what all the fuss is about.

The next brew was to be a masterpiece, as I knew everything. All I had to do was tweak a recipe. This time I would design my own mash schedule, I'm f*cking clever! Gathered all the grain, nothing simple this time, specialty malts and adjuncts. Milled the grain, all going to plan. Think I'll drop the water to grain ratio to 2L per Kg for this one, just rework the mash schedule, I'v got a computer program to do that for me, it's f*cking clever. The rest of the day turned to shit really, missed target temps added too much boiling water, couldn't add enough boiling water to reach mash out as the volume was too high in the tun. Everything going wrong, STRESSSSSSSSS, find something to f*cking smash! Forgot the HLT water and switched it off at 98 C. HATE THIS F*CKING ALL GRAIN!!!! Got 31.5L in the Boiler for a target of 29.5 GOING RIGHT OFF THIS HOBBY!!!!! only managed 10% evaporation this time, first time was 15%. Remembered the hops additions and the whirlfloc tablet, got too much beer with a low AG. F*ck! What Went Wrong? I have a f*cking computer program AND experience!

The third AG was when I started thinking about the process, finally, nobody mentioned that - wasn't anywhere in Beersmith.

Now I find brewdays calming. Am really enjoying the whole process. Think I enjoy making it more that drinking it (who said that), just running out of places to put all this fermenting wort.

On, On, Brew, Brew. You have f*ck-ups to make! See if you can catch up to me.

Don't know why I wrote all this crap really, but I felt better afterwards.

Cheers,
Michael
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