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Brewing has been on my bucket list for a long time and I finally decided to make the leap. After studying up for a few weeks, I bought some gear and a kit, and now my first batch is working away in the fermenter. The entire process has been fascinating and I look forward to experimenting in the future.

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Welcome, Mike. What type of brew did you put on? was it a canned kit or an all wort kit?

Hello!

Welcome aboard!

Kits are a great way to good beer, and an easy way to get practice with some of the most important parts of brewing: cleaning/sanitation and fermentation control (temperature, length, yeast pitch rates).
One word, you'll probably want to ignore the instructions that came with your kit (no matter which one): no need to transfer from primary to secondary after 3 or 5 days, it can safely be left in primary for much longer, and can safely be transferred to bottles directly (with the priming sugar).

Welcome! Kits are a great way to get started!!

GasMD30 wrote:Welcome! Kits are a great way to get started!!

Especially if it's a festa brew kit. (all grain wort in a plastic bag inside a cardboard box from Noble Grape ...just put it in a sanitised bucket, add the supplied dry yeast, and ferment it).

Welcome to the obsession!

Welcome aboard,

I too brew kits for now. Started with Coopers extract kits now moved on to Brew House kits and will pick up a Micro Brew kit this week.

I got an American amber ale extract/specialty grain "kit" from Everwood. It all went together pretty simply.

I've read a bunch of different stuff about moving to secondary or not. I'm just going to leave it in the primary for maybe 3 weeks, then move it to the keg. I'm lazy and doing bottles the first time seemed like too much work.

LeafMan66_67 wrote:Welcome to the obsession!

The first one isn't even done yet and I'm already thinking about what I'm going to do for a second batch.

Bluefin 774 wrote: will pick up a Micro Brew kit this week.

Let me know how they turn out and the price on them if you would please.

Welcome! I just use Festa's and Partial boils so far here. Never underestimate how fast 67 Beer can vaporize! haha. There is a blue set of instructions that say "USE THESE". I tend to follow them by the letter but I now make sure my pitched yeast is already in my Primary before I pour in the Wort. (before I would add it after and try to stir it in). With new method I see much quicker fermentation activity. Keep us posted! ~Volt

Buccaneer wrote:

LeafMan66_67 wrote:Welcome to the obsession!

The first one isn't even done yet and I'm already thinking about what I'm going to do for a second batch.

You need a pipeline built up... in my experience they take much longer to ferment than they do to drink, especially if you share it

bluenose wrote:You need a pipeline built up... in my experience they take much longer to ferment than they do to drink, especially if you share it

Certainly, if I'm able to produce good beer, I have a lot of friends more than willing to help out with making room for more beer.

I like to mix it up when I want a beer, so having maybe 3 on tap to choose from will help prevent boredom.

Buccaneer wrote:

bluenose wrote:You need a pipeline built up... in my experience they take much longer to ferment than they do to drink, especially if you share it

Certainly, if I'm able to produce good beer, I have a lot of friends more than willing to help out with making room for more beer.

I like to mix it up when I want a beer, so having maybe 3 on tap to choose from will help prevent boredom.

I started with 3 taps... I got bored. I now have 5 taps, and am already trying to wrap my head around moving to 8-10 taps. Not so much doing it, but not ending up with divorce papers in hand while doing it. hahaha.

Keith wrote:I started with 3 taps... I got bored. I now have 5 taps, and am already trying to wrap my head around moving to 8-10 taps. Not so much doing it, but not ending up with divorce papers in hand while doing it. hahaha.

See, that's what worries me with even 3 taps - I'll get bored. However, I figure 3 give me enough variety along with all of the other beer that I'm trying to taste. If I had too many of my own taps, the beer is likely to go bad before I can finish it.

just out of curiosity where are you located?

Hammonds Plains

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