A community dedicated to homebrewing beer, mead, wine, cider and everything in between. If it ferments, bring it over here.
Share recipes, ideas, ask for feedback or just advice.
Some starting points for beginners:
Quick and diry guide to fermenting fruit - cider and wine
Came out really great!!
I used one of the very basic starter kits from northern brewer and now I want to upgrade everything π³
The kit was this one:
https://www.northernbrewer.com/products/block-party-amber-ale
Be careful, brewing is just as much about collecting gear as it is making tasty beverages.
Welcome!
Yea. This is going to be a problem. I am a guitar player and that hobby has a ver similar problem. π
Haha, my niece, who just started learning guitar, told me I have too many guitars. I said, no, I don't, you just don't understand. Yet.
Nothing better than your first brew....
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Congrats!!! My first homebrew was also an Amber.
One thing to keep in mind is that the first one you open will always taste less than ideal, if you try to open them as soon as theyβre done carbonating in a couple weeks. So adjust your expectation accordingly and enjoy experiencing how it improves with time!!
Yes! Itβs gotten much better even just a few days in.
I bet that first thing you will upgrade will be your bottles/bottling method. From all my friends I know how much difficult is dealing with these.
Bottling is always tedious but some are better than others. Cheers
Totally agree about the bottles, but honestly I still use the bottle filler and capper from the original northern brewer kit I got 5 years ago or something. Am I missing out on some magic filling method? It always seemed to work really well for me, but perhaps there's a better way!
I mean the bottles. Don't change what isn't broken. These "crown caps" are difficult to deal with.
I got started with a Northern Brewer kit myself back in 2008. Welcome to the hobby!
Thank you!
Congratulations, looks great! That's exactly how I started out. It makes a good first beer.
Best thing I ever upgraded was to get a fridge in freecycle and use it to control the temperature for fermenting. Made everything better :)
Enjoy!
Oh yeah. Thatβs a good idea. Regular old small fridge or something specific?
Yeah, just one of those under counter fridges. Check you can remove all the shelves and fit the bucket first is my top tip, not all of them fit. Then a heat belt and a couple of temperature triggered plugs (they've got a proper name, but dammed if I can remember it), and every brew is fermented to within a degree or so of perfect!
Congrats! Hope it turns out great!
It did!! (I was skeptical)