Update From a "Newbie"

That's awesome. If I recall your thread correctly, bottle bombs were not even close to a certainty, given the information available. Glad to hear it didn't happen.

 

HOW is a golden strong really good after a few months? I must learn more, sensei.

 

Success! Now you can waste your life on your homebrew obsession, just like the rest of us

 

You're really a dude with hairy back aren't you? Cheers

 

Much of the time, beer actually doesn't look very appealing at all until you finally pour it in a glass. My beer I brewed yesterday looked like muddy dirt water mixed with a tinge of rust coloring and vegetation. That's just hops and munich malt tho, the final product will be beautiful.

Beer is kinda like the ugly duckling, in that its physical beauty doesn't really develop until it's all grown up, and ready to be poured into your glass.

 

This is the truth. The saison I brewed last was actually the clearest beer I'd made to date going into the bottle. Needless to say, I was perplexed. Well, put it in the fridge for a while and then it get's hazy...

 

If you get the yeast to drop out, it can be clear. If it gets cloudy in the fridge, then that is chill haze from proteins and tannins becoming large enough to throw the haze. Extended lagering will help that, or other clarifiers. I have some Biofine clear to use in the next time I keg, and that is said to drop yeast and proteins.

 

I haven't ventured into finings yet, mostly because I don't care enough to. I was just surprised/disappointed that a traditionally somewhat hazy beer beer turned out so clear. I was actually relived when the chill haze appeared.

 

Well done. The mere fact that your first attempt tastes good is a better result than many!

 

Sounds to me that you should have re-caped the whole batch!

 

Congrats & cheers!
Nicely done and now that you're over the hurdle and armed with your experience and hard-won knowledge, it's time to brew!

May each batch be better than the last!

 

Wheat beer. Every one I've made so far has come out "tasty beer." And they're both thick and chewy and "lighter" at the same time. Problem, solution.

 

I've had a sour going in my cellar for the past year (just bottled it yesterday) and it was only the last few months it actually looked drinkable.

 

+1 to that.

 

That's good to hear! Make more beer, it's the solution to every batch of beer you'll ever make, whether it's good, bad, or "bombly." WTF? "bombly" is NOT being flagged by spell checker?

And of course some batches will be better than others, some great, some not so great, and occasionally, a flub-up that results in drainpour aile. No biggie, just brew more, it's the solution to every beer problem you'll ever have.

My last batch is a little on the weird side. I for some unknown reason rehydrated US-05 along with the already prepared starter of Bavarian wheat yeast that I usually use for my elderberry wheat beer. Well, that was stupid! But I didn't want to waste the yeast, so I just blended the two. Not sure if I over-pitched by waaaaay too much, or if the two strains just kinda clash, or if wheat based beers just don't belong with any quantity of 05, but this batch is a little odd. It's still beer tho, and it will still get drank.

Dry-hopped my munich/citra-bomb-from-hell beer today. It's nice and orange colored, and I got a near sinus-destroying blast of citra hops goodness just from the little tiny bit of gas that escaped the lid when I opened it. It's gonna be deadly.

 

Hey Al, did you taste the munich citra at all? Just curious, my next brew is gonna be half munich and hopped with 4 oz Chinook, 3 oz citra, and 2 oz centennial, just wondering how citra and munich play together.