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Just Kegged First Brew!
Hello everyone.
After kegging my first kit today (a Wherry), just thought I'd share my experiences as a newbie as they may help others.
I washed and sterilised the fv and treated the water with half a campden tablet as advised. Mixed the ingedients as per instructions on the box. I took an O.G. reading-it looked about 1.040 to my untrained eye. My brew started bubbling nicely after about 24 hrs and continued for about 6 days.
I left it in the fv until 2 weeks (today), as saracen advises on one of his posts. There were only a few speckles of sediment on top of the wort and it had a lovely "beery" smell (stronger than I expected!). It also looks pretty clear already, and there was a nice yeasty sludge at the bottom of the fv. I took another hydrometer reading of 1.010, abv 3.9% (I think!).
Sanitised my keg and half a dozen bottles with dandan's no rinse videne recipie and kegged/bottled my beer.
I had a cheeky taste (couldn't resist!) of the dregs out of the siphon tube and it tasted of, well, beer!
I think I'll have a little taste at weekly intervals to learn a bit about how the beer matures.
Thanks for the advice to my earlier posts, they helped a lot!
I have to say I've enjoyed the whole process and at the end I've got have 40 pints of beer! What's not to like!?!
Right, a golden ale next I think...
Mark.
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Posted 9 months ago by Moderator
Good man, your way sounds spot on to me, just make sure you try to save some over the next 2 months - it really does change and age well over time.
What golden ale will you be doing then?
Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!
nathbrew@gmail.com
Posted 9 months ago by Member
Thinking of doing the St Peters Golden Ale, Muntons Premium Gold Midas Touch or Woodfordes Great Eastern.
The Brewferm Ales look really good to me too, and then possibly when my confidence grows I'll progress to an extract recipe from this site (Summer Ale or Way To Amarillo look great).
Cheers.
Posted 9 months ago by Member
welcome to the addiction of home brewing Mark!! you cant go wrong with woodfordes great eastern, i have a keg of it on the go at the moment after two months of conditioning and if i must say so its tasting pretty darn good
Fermenting: Summer lightning
Conditioning: E.S.B
Drinking: Tettnang tiger lager, Amarillo
Posted 9 months ago by Member
Will probably give the great eastern a try then, ta.
Posted 9 months ago by Member
Just doing the St Peters Golden Ale now Its been in the FV since the 17th and looks like it may have just stoped working May be puting that in a keg later this week
5 gal St Peters Golden Ale as per tin
Youngs Harvest Mild
all a bit moded
Posted 9 months ago by Member
Let us know how it tastes when it's ready!
Posted 9 months ago by Member
I put it in keg yesterday had to put some in a glass to see if it was clearing ok and it seemed a shame to tip it doen the sink;) it tastes ok Lets see what it is like next week if I can keep my hands of it
5 gal St Peters Golden Ale as per tin
Youngs Harvest Mild
all a bit moded
Posted 9 months ago by Moderator
The hardest part of brewing!
Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!
nathbrew@gmail.com
Posted 9 months ago by Member
Just had a little taste of the Wherry after a week in the keg.
It has quite a good head already, but doesn't taste much different to the day I kegged it.
Interesting to see how it matures.
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