Very first brew: St Pter's Ruby Red

[Hoppyland]

I love the "handbags" about the bleach/StarSan situation!

:lol: Just proves that there's no really "right" way of brewing. Barring a few common denominators, you're free to pursue the path that works for you! I'm a retired scientist, but I love the fact that there's art and craft (if I may use that word without prejudice these days!!) in brewing, not just facts, figures and dogma. That's a large part of what makes it so enjoyable! (not to mention the excellent quality of beer that can be achieved.. :smile:)

For the record, I'm a bleach man myself. Why? Cos that's what I've done for years and years and it works.
Starsan does sound interesting, though, so who knows......:wink:

 

[Kman]

I put this on on Saturday and it has fermented slowly and is on 1.020, giving this at least two weeks in the fv an see if reaches target

 

[Budgie]

I did this one on Saturday too. Live never come across hop powder before, but that stuff smells amazing!

Mine took off pretty quickly and it's bubbling away nicely with a good 2-3" Krausen. I'm very excited about this one.

 

[Labowner]

I'm a starsan fan too, small bottle last ages its great stuff.
The ruby red was the first homebrew I had tasted in years a friend in work asked me to try a few of his bottles and let him know what I thought of them :drink: Liked them so much I bought a shed load of kit and am brewing my own :grin:

 

[Budgie]

I checked the gravity of mine today, been sitting at 20°C for 7 days and only down to 1018. I was expecting somewhere near 1014 but it's staying in the FV for another week anyway so not to worry. The sample tasted very nice though. I don't do many kits but this is shaping up to be a cracker!

 

[MalvernDan]

Just over a week and it got down to 1014 so I bottled. Had the bottles in the warm for a few days but now in the cold. It's in the hands of the beer gods now [emoji3]

I will make a test after 3 weeks in the bottles and see where it's at.

 

[Kman]

Bottled mine today and for some reason the calculator told me to put 62g of dextrose in and now it says 120g, guess it's not going to be very carbed

 

[Kman]

Update on mine, tried my test bottle on Wednesday and to my surprise it's carbed up nicely, very nice beer too [emoji106]

 

[MalvernDan]

So mine has been in the bottles 4 weeks now and are still cloudy The first bottle I tried after 3 weeks I poured in 2 halfs, the first half was clear but the second half wasn't. The second bottle I poured as a pint and it was flat with no head and very cloudy

The wait continues!