GothGargoyle
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Hi.
So here's the details of my first ever brew!
Ingredients
Brewcraft Premium Belgian Ale Kit
Morgan's Unhopped Pale Malt Extract
Morgan's Finishing Hops (Fuggles)
This is what the LHBS ownder supplied me with when I bought my beginners kit and told him that I don't like Australian beers, but are quite fond of dark German & Belgian beers.
Naturally, cleaned and santised everything as it should be.
Seeped the hop "tea bag" for about 10 minutes. Threw the contents of the two cans into the fermenter along with a couple of litres of hot water and stired until dissolved. Topped up to 18L (as per the LHBS guy's recommendation) and threw in the hops.
It seemed to be around 30C so I put the lid on loosely and waitied about 2 hours until it was down around 28C, then I sprinkled on the packet of yeast, and then gently stirred.
The OG which I took from a sample before I added the yeast was about (adjusting for temperature) 1.055
When I stirred in the yeast it practically disappeared. But by 11:30pm there was a thin layer over the top of the wort. The temperature was then around 25C. This morning, about 8am, temperature was 22C and there was a somewhat foamy layer around 1.5cm thick on the top so I assume all is going well. No noticeable activity in the airlock so far.
By the way, when I took my sample to measure the gravity, I did taste the wort, which is something I didn't enjoy (had to spit it out immediately). It tasted and smelled like molasses and fresh cut hay.
So here's the details of my first ever brew!
Ingredients
Brewcraft Premium Belgian Ale Kit
Morgan's Unhopped Pale Malt Extract
Morgan's Finishing Hops (Fuggles)
This is what the LHBS ownder supplied me with when I bought my beginners kit and told him that I don't like Australian beers, but are quite fond of dark German & Belgian beers.
Naturally, cleaned and santised everything as it should be.
Seeped the hop "tea bag" for about 10 minutes. Threw the contents of the two cans into the fermenter along with a couple of litres of hot water and stired until dissolved. Topped up to 18L (as per the LHBS guy's recommendation) and threw in the hops.
It seemed to be around 30C so I put the lid on loosely and waitied about 2 hours until it was down around 28C, then I sprinkled on the packet of yeast, and then gently stirred.
The OG which I took from a sample before I added the yeast was about (adjusting for temperature) 1.055
When I stirred in the yeast it practically disappeared. But by 11:30pm there was a thin layer over the top of the wort. The temperature was then around 25C. This morning, about 8am, temperature was 22C and there was a somewhat foamy layer around 1.5cm thick on the top so I assume all is going well. No noticeable activity in the airlock so far.
By the way, when I took my sample to measure the gravity, I did taste the wort, which is something I didn't enjoy (had to spit it out immediately). It tasted and smelled like molasses and fresh cut hay.