To the delight of Christi I started home brewing. I hope this blog gives other's new to home brewing a path to follow through gradual steps. This first post will be longer as I decided to wait until my second batch to start this. I had NO idea what I was doing to start but now I feel, through research, I will be able to be "all graining" by next spring.
My first attempt was a few months ago using mash out of a can (an imperial white ale). I bought a kit to start from a local home brew store:
Primary fermenter
Secondary fermenter
Caps, Capper
Auto siphon (must have)
Air lock
I spent about 2 months buying only beer without twist off caps so that I wouldn't spend money on buying empty bottles, this just doesn't make sense to me. I would much rather get some beer out of it....
My first beer turned out drinkable but certainly not what I was hoping for from a craft beer. I will post my full prodecures and issues that I encountered for your viewing pleasure (and laughs). I have since drank all of the bottles and moved on to extract brewing.
As of this posting I have an extract HopNop beer in its secondary fermentation and apple cider fermenting as well. Posts will follow showing my new brewing setup, extract procedure, and hard apple cider recipe. Stay tuned!
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