New to Brewing

[Nullnvoid]

Thanks Yum Beer, that's great. Thanks for the help

 

[burrster]

Exactly as stated above!

 

[Nullnvoid]

So, I cracked open the first bottle of my first brew yesterday and might I say I was very nervous!

Now it's only been 4 weeks since I bottled it, but I was very happy with the result. It's meant to be a draught beer but is very light and very easy to drink, and not what I would consider to be a draught. It's going to go very nicely on a warm summers afternoon. SWMBO was mighty impressed to (she didn't want to have to pretend to enjoy it).

It doesn't have much of a head on it when it gets poured but I presume the longer it gets left in the bottle the more it will?

Now I have one down and think I have the concept of what goes on, I'll definitely be keen to branch out a bit

Got a pale ale bottled but that's got a month before I can sample that one!

 

[manticle]

Draught is a method of dispensing beer as opposed to a style of beer.

Glad your first worked out OK. keeping your temps down early on in fermentation should have helped a lot

 

[Nullnvoid]

Don't know what I brewed then . It was what came with the kit and said Australian draught. But who cares least it's drinkable and don't have to punish myself through 55 bottles

Tried to keep the temp down as much as I could. It hovered around 18 degrees in a chest freezer turned off and that's when the first heat wave in Melbourne hit.

 

[Nullnvoid]

So didn't really know where to post this reply but thought this post where it all started would be the most logical.

I started brewing a fraction over 12 months ago. My first beer was ready to drink on the 19th January 2014. I kept a couple and tonight sampled one 12 months on! It was just the brew that came with the not I got for Christmas so just a simple kit and kilo. Details in above posts.

Anyway 12 months on I was a little iffy as to what to expect. It's a bit of a nothing now. Carbonation is good but there is really no taste. Must have leaked out of the bottle. Even water has more taste I think . It's like drinking bubbles. There is a slight apple flavour, but only slight and SHMBO can't taste it. Anyway still drinkable.

Onwards and upwards!

 

[yum beer]

Kit beers don't last much over 9 months, actually most beers don't last much more than that.
Porters, stouts, big ales are exceptions.
I'm sucking down a Double Choc Porter I brewed last May and its bloody fantastic. I love making beer better than what you can buy.
How have your latest brews been?

 

[Nullnvoid]

Yeah I tried it at 6 months and I was holding out much hope for 12 months, but still had to give it a cracked, get that knowledge of what the same beer can taste like after each period. Really interesting.

The last few beers I have done have been cracking beers, a couple of pale ales, amber ale and a chic porter. Really delicious beer.

Now I'm just starting to set up a BIAB system so I can give that a crack.