I love the smell of wort in the morning....
This is my 2nd batch of beer - an Irish Stout. The first pic is right before the aroma hops pellets are added (on the right). The beauty of this beer is that it is single stage and gets bottled in less than 2 weeks and is drinkable a week after that. My fermentor is bubbling away and the air coming out of the air lock is about a good a smell as was ever discovered! Fresh Beer!
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It's gotta smell better than this:
That's a sulphur cloud.
Congrats on the brew. [:D]0 -
Excellent a fellow home brewer! I love the smell of wort and hops! I see you brew in the kitchen. Same here and the house will have a pleasant aroma for days! [:p]
I just finished a batch of my Pistolwhip Porter two weeks ago. This batch was also a single stage and after about 8 days when the air lock bubbling slowed down I transferred it to my corny keg. 3 days of carbonating and agitating the beer and it was ready to drink. I set up a kegerator in my garage that handles one commercial and one Cornelius keg. Bottling was fun about the first dozen batches and then I was ready to try something different. Setting up a draft system for my homebrew was easy and takes a lot of pain out of the process. Also you get near perfect consistency in a keg whereas the priming process can vary in bottles.0 -
Another friend of mine suggested 6ing the priming sugar and getting a carbonator. What brand/model do you use? That would make life a lot easier being able to just keg it. 0 -
I need to start brewing again. I no nothing about the keg part but would sure like to learn. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by slipgate
Another friend of mine suggested 6ing the priming sugar and getting a carbonator. What brand/model do you use? That would make life a lot easier being able to just keg it.
I just bought the corny keg parts here:
http://www.beveragefactory.com/draftbeer/kits/homebrew-kits.shtml
The Pepsi keg I found locally on craigslist. I already had a refrigerator in the garage with a commercial keg system running through it. I bought some extra hose line at Lowes and ran both kegs off of my 5lb CO2 tank and dual gauge regulator.
Siphon your fermented beer into the keg and hook it up to the CO2 for a couple days and you are golden.0 -
quote:I love the smell of wort in the morning....
Smells like...victory.0 -
Lookin good, slipgate. I too love the smell of wort in the morning.
I have a batch of English Bitters right here, I bottled it 3 weeks ago. mmmmmmmmmmmm gooood.
I haven't had a problem with bottling the beer, other than the hassle of messing with all the bottles. I boil the bottling sugar in a pint of water, and put it in the bottling bucket first, then siphon the beer onto it. That, alone stirs it up pretty well.
Then I stir it for a minute, I get very consistent carbonation bottle to bottle.0 -
Might smell like a frog[:(][:)][:D] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by slipgate
Another friend of mine suggested 6ing the priming sugar and getting a carbonator. What brand/model do you use? That would make life a lot easier being able to just keg it.
I've never done the keg thing but I've a buddy who does. He just bought a couple of the soda-pop style kegs to put the beer in. From there it's simple to add a bottle of CO2 and a pressure regulator in between and....there it is. When he forgets to charge his CO2 tank he uses the small canisters. Forget brand names. Go through a restaurant supply joint or better yet, a restaurant liquidation sale.0 -
quote:Originally posted by HobbyGuy
Why aren't you using a glass carboy for fermenting? Plastic allows unwanted "stuff" to enter. Also, if your plastic fermenting bucket gets scratched on the interior during cleaning, it will harbor nasty "stuff" (which will then be part of your brew). I hate "stuff" in my beer. [xx(]
Glass IS easier to sanitize. But also more expensive and less easy to store.0
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