My first go at brewing. Started on Sunday avo took about 3.5 hours.
Got the bottoms up ipa kit from brew craft beer, it's an all grain kit, should make about 4ltr.
Went pretty well tbh for a first go I reckon.
Instructions said to use only 2 litres of water to make the mash, think I would use 3 litres next time as it didn't seem enough....
Found it a bit tricky keeping mash at a steady temperature but have a better idea how to manage it next time.
Next stage was the sparge, no pictures of that as I made an **** of it
Sieve that I ordered never turned up so had to use the kitchen one. Was a bit on the small side and ended up falling in the wort, just sieved it all again
The boil, pretty straight forward but ended up boiling off much more wort than I expected, just had to top up with tap water.
Checked the SG and it was around 1.065 so about right?
Got a few random bubbles after 4-5 hours but today its going at 1 bubble every 4 seconds roughly.
Got the bottoms up ipa kit from brew craft beer, it's an all grain kit, should make about 4ltr.
Went pretty well tbh for a first go I reckon.
Instructions said to use only 2 litres of water to make the mash, think I would use 3 litres next time as it didn't seem enough....
Found it a bit tricky keeping mash at a steady temperature but have a better idea how to manage it next time.
Next stage was the sparge, no pictures of that as I made an **** of it
Sieve that I ordered never turned up so had to use the kitchen one. Was a bit on the small side and ended up falling in the wort, just sieved it all again
The boil, pretty straight forward but ended up boiling off much more wort than I expected, just had to top up with tap water.
Checked the SG and it was around 1.065 so about right?
Got a few random bubbles after 4-5 hours but today its going at 1 bubble every 4 seconds roughly.
