Well I've just bottled my first all grain stove topper beire de grande (spelling)
I did however feel like i made lots of errors as I had just been brought a brew kettle which for a stove topper is a little big so I had to increase the water to cover the element in the kettle, also i got impatient waiting for my brew bag to come, so i used a pillow case for the grains which i will say gets heavy doesn't drain well and don't like i did try to squeeze it, it goes everywhere
I could not reduce the wort temp very well so i did it the best i could and pitched the yeast. All seemed fine although i was concerned of no bubbling in air lock but i used a 25 litre FV for only about 12litres but lifted the lid and it was bubbling. My errors continued all through the process during the bottling process i used my new bottle washer and draining tree (highly recommended) i then got the biggest bottled filled using syphon tube knocked it over onto the floor the syphon tube came out of my hands, big mess.BUT i had a taste and I have to say it tastes worlds apart from my previous kits and extract brews.
Just thought I would share my experience this has in no way put me off, I have 4 more of these kits to do and I will learn from this.
Also fosters gold bottles are not very good when trying to put new caps on, they didn't seal very wel
I did however feel like i made lots of errors as I had just been brought a brew kettle which for a stove topper is a little big so I had to increase the water to cover the element in the kettle, also i got impatient waiting for my brew bag to come, so i used a pillow case for the grains which i will say gets heavy doesn't drain well and don't like i did try to squeeze it, it goes everywhere
I could not reduce the wort temp very well so i did it the best i could and pitched the yeast. All seemed fine although i was concerned of no bubbling in air lock but i used a 25 litre FV for only about 12litres but lifted the lid and it was bubbling. My errors continued all through the process during the bottling process i used my new bottle washer and draining tree (highly recommended) i then got the biggest bottled filled using syphon tube knocked it over onto the floor the syphon tube came out of my hands, big mess.BUT i had a taste and I have to say it tastes worlds apart from my previous kits and extract brews.
Just thought I would share my experience this has in no way put me off, I have 4 more of these kits to do and I will learn from this.
Also fosters gold bottles are not very good when trying to put new caps on, they didn't seal very wel