It’s funny that I was so eager to drink it then when I could I was so busy that I didn’t have the time to taste it for about 2 days. In my first taste I was pleasantly surprised. If you cannot tell, I have been a bit nervous about messing up somewhere […]
By far the hardest step in the process. I had to wait 2 weeks before I could taste my beer. I kept it cool covered with a towel just in case any of the bottles exploded. It went by quickly.
Last night I finally bottled my beer. All in all, it was an arduous task. The hard part was and is cleaning everything. I cleaned the plastic fermenter, cleaned the bottles, and prepped the area. Cleaning the bottles was a pain and wasteful. I put a small amount of bleach […]
My directions from beer-wine.com clearly state,
9. …check the hydrometer reading. If it has fallen to half the original reading, sanitize your glass carboy with B-Brite…
This being my first time, I misunderstood this direction. My original S.G. reading after combining wort and yeast was 1.043, well according to this direction I was waiting for […]
On Saturday, May 19th, 2007 I brewed my first beer. And let me correct myself, when I say brew I mean the first stage, not the entire process.
I live in a condominium which runs off of a very large well system. The water has a lot of chlorine, in fact when I shower […]