First pour!
I made beer!!!! Head was lacking, could be from my freezing cold fridge though. Not sure.
Wasn't bad, definitely drinkable. Little high on the carbonation so I'll tone it down a little next brew. Tasted a little thin but thats to be expected from the basic kits I guess. Can't wait for the next one!!!!
Turned out pretty clear with a batch prime and cold crash
First Batch!
Received a Mr. Beer Premium Gold kit for christmas and brewed the first batch last night! Started with the American Blonde Ale extract kit for the first one.
Now some things I want to do differently next time:
- Use spring water instead of distilled
- Refrigerate water before using, needs to below 60F!
- Warm up the water before adding booster to help it dissolve quicker
- Don't set hot pot on fermenter, will melt plastic
- Check temperature of wort before adding yeast, I didn't check at all. Definitely need to make sure its below 80F
Other then those things I think it went fairly well. Nice foam on top of the wort already this morning so maybe it will come out halfway decent. I guess we will see! I'm planning on doing 2 weeks in the fermenter, 2 weeks carbonation and 2 weeks conditioning. I'm already itching to start the next batch so I think another keg and another set of bottles is going to be on order.
