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I came to this site to get a few answers a week or so ago, haven't left yet. So much info on brewing beer, love it.
My love for beer got me going, that and the current regulations not allowing the sale of beer. Before I ran out of my store bought booze, I decided that I would try the different brews everyone was starting to make. Got some recipes of FB and a few WhatsApp groups. We made the apple cider (came out crap, think the tea was a no no for us), pineapple beer (not beer, came out ok and we enjoyed it with a lemonade or/and soda water) and the lemon drink which we have worked a bit to get closer to our taste.
So after joining this forum and reading a bit, I will be making another lemon brew, but this time I have mead yeast and also some sugar that won't be used up by the yeast. Hoping to get a decent lemon hooch type drink with a nice kick.
Also inversted in the MJ micro brewery kit with stainless fermenter and currently doing a Belgian Pilsner. First real beer attempt, but had it's hickups sadly. We have high hopes for it anyway, but will have to wait and see what it tastes like. The Belgian Pilsner kit had a whitish powder in that was hard as a rock. I massaged it till it felt smooth and runny, but when I started pouring it into the fermenter to mix, there was a few large lumps. That was Friday afternoon. So when we noticed that they didn't want to dissolve we added another 2L hot water to the mix. Stirred the crap out of it every now and then. Eventually we didn't see any lumps and kept on stirring to mix it well. Pitched the yeast Saturday morning, notthing much happened. Then during the night somewhere it started bubbling. It's been going since and I think and hope all will be ok. My thoughts were that the only negative would be the extended time the ferment would take, or basically half a day lost because the wort was too warm to pitch yeast.
Anyway, after all my reading here, I have started thinking about what I would need for all grain beer brewing, hehehe. So I will start with that research so long. Was thinking of getting something like a 35L urn and work it allow for beer brewing as well as distilling.
So much to learn, just thankful for finding such a valuable local resource.
Happy brewing brews
My love for beer got me going, that and the current regulations not allowing the sale of beer. Before I ran out of my store bought booze, I decided that I would try the different brews everyone was starting to make. Got some recipes of FB and a few WhatsApp groups. We made the apple cider (came out crap, think the tea was a no no for us), pineapple beer (not beer, came out ok and we enjoyed it with a lemonade or/and soda water) and the lemon drink which we have worked a bit to get closer to our taste.
So after joining this forum and reading a bit, I will be making another lemon brew, but this time I have mead yeast and also some sugar that won't be used up by the yeast. Hoping to get a decent lemon hooch type drink with a nice kick.
Also inversted in the MJ micro brewery kit with stainless fermenter and currently doing a Belgian Pilsner. First real beer attempt, but had it's hickups sadly. We have high hopes for it anyway, but will have to wait and see what it tastes like. The Belgian Pilsner kit had a whitish powder in that was hard as a rock. I massaged it till it felt smooth and runny, but when I started pouring it into the fermenter to mix, there was a few large lumps. That was Friday afternoon. So when we noticed that they didn't want to dissolve we added another 2L hot water to the mix. Stirred the crap out of it every now and then. Eventually we didn't see any lumps and kept on stirring to mix it well. Pitched the yeast Saturday morning, notthing much happened. Then during the night somewhere it started bubbling. It's been going since and I think and hope all will be ok. My thoughts were that the only negative would be the extended time the ferment would take, or basically half a day lost because the wort was too warm to pitch yeast.
Anyway, after all my reading here, I have started thinking about what I would need for all grain beer brewing, hehehe. So I will start with that research so long. Was thinking of getting something like a 35L urn and work it allow for beer brewing as well as distilling.
So much to learn, just thankful for finding such a valuable local resource.
Happy brewing brews
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