Hi all,
Since I'm new to the brewing art in general and even more so at beer brewing, please excuse the *no no's* I may have *accomplished* in such an endeavor :-\
I started out with the intention to follow the recipe to the letter but life got in the way.
Instead of 7.5 lb light extract I used 8 lbs because that was the smallest bag the LHBS had. As for the hops, I was supposed to use 1.25 oz and boil for 60 minutes. I personally do not like very hoppy, bitter beers so....I added some hops 15 min. into the boil, then again at 40 min. into the boil and lastly 5 min.before the end of the boil along with 1/2 teaspoon if irish moss. But I'm getting ahead of myself. At the point in the process where I was supposed to remove the grains and dissolve the extract, my dog decided she wanted to play with my mom in the yard and ended up putting my mom down. I had to leave the wort to its own, run outside, pick up my mom and try to stop the bleeding from her nose. Once mom was comfortably set in her bedroom, the bleeding stopped, the knees, mouth and face clean, I went back to my task. By now a good 20 to 30 minutes have passed with the specialty grains in the wort. I removed them, and continued the brewing. I rehydrated the yeast and finally pitched at 8:45 pm. The OG prior to pitching was about 1.057.
To be continued,
Ted
Since I'm new to the brewing art in general and even more so at beer brewing, please excuse the *no no's* I may have *accomplished* in such an endeavor :-\
I started out with the intention to follow the recipe to the letter but life got in the way.
Instead of 7.5 lb light extract I used 8 lbs because that was the smallest bag the LHBS had. As for the hops, I was supposed to use 1.25 oz and boil for 60 minutes. I personally do not like very hoppy, bitter beers so....I added some hops 15 min. into the boil, then again at 40 min. into the boil and lastly 5 min.before the end of the boil along with 1/2 teaspoon if irish moss. But I'm getting ahead of myself. At the point in the process where I was supposed to remove the grains and dissolve the extract, my dog decided she wanted to play with my mom in the yard and ended up putting my mom down. I had to leave the wort to its own, run outside, pick up my mom and try to stop the bleeding from her nose. Once mom was comfortably set in her bedroom, the bleeding stopped, the knees, mouth and face clean, I went back to my task. By now a good 20 to 30 minutes have passed with the specialty grains in the wort. I removed them, and continued the brewing. I rehydrated the yeast and finally pitched at 8:45 pm. The OG prior to pitching was about 1.057.
To be continued,
Ted