Any other homebrewers on NS?

[gregorio]

I just brewed my first beer and it actually came out good!

Steeping the grains

After the malt extract was added and all 3 hop additions

Siphoning the wort into the carboy for fermentation

About 6 hours later everything is set up and fermenting

A couple hours later, it was already fermenting fast!

The next day I put in a blow off tube to keep the airlock from clogging and exploding

All done fermenting and ready for bottling

Siphoning the beer into the bottling bucket and mixing with priming sugar to carbonate

44 Bottles!

BEER

It's an 8.5% alcohol IPA

Here's the recipe:

6.6 lbs light liquid malt extract

8oz Carapils

8oz Cara Wheat

1oz Citra leaf hops (bittering)

1oz Citra leaf hops (flavor)

1oz Citra leaf hops (aroma)

and a little bit of Irish moss

It actually tastes goof!

TL;DR I made beer, it tastes good, it gets you drunk

 

[steezyjibber]

Hell yeah, awesome. I actually really like the idea of homebrewing and it's something I want to try at some point in my life. I just don't have the motivation right now.

 

[Barefootin_Fiend]

i brew. please tell me you didn't do all of that in two days?

my last batch was a coffee porter that was quite delightful.

 

[gregorio]

i brew. please tell me you didn't do all of that in two days?

my last batch was a coffee porter that was quite delightful.

Haha no don't worry, I let it ferment for 2 weeks and then I took a sample to check the gravity and then 2 days later I took another sample and since the gravity didn't change I bottled it and let it carbonate for 2 weeks. So it took a total of 4 weeks.

My next brew that I'm going to start this weekend is a honey amber ale. I think I'm going to wait a few more batches to do anything different from an ale

 

[JordanButtfart]

I'm going to start over the summer. Super stoked about it too. I'm going to try to make a nice pilsner, kinda like a Stella, but we'll see.

 

[stizzle]

https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/734540/Home-Brewing?page=3

Here is another brewing thread that has some activity every now and then...

 

[Barefootin_Fiend]

Haha no don't worry, I let it ferment for 2 weeks and then I took a sample to check the gravity and then 2 days later I took another sample and since the gravity didn't change I bottled it and let it carbonate for 2 weeks. So it took a total of 4 weeks.

My next brew that I'm going to start this weekend is a honey amber ale. I think I'm going to wait a few more batches to do anything different from an ale

ok good. i kinda figured, but the way you wrote it it sounded like you did it all in two days.

its really not any harder to do a stout or a porter...just takes a little longer to prep.