First ever brew-day!

[Grotzilla]

Ok some of you welcomed me to the forum earlier this week and today I (hopefully) successfully completed my first brew!

The weapon of choice was the woodforbes wherry kit with 500g of light spray malt.

The kit:

Sterilising the equipment

The water needed

Warming up the wort cans

Mixing the wort

Waiting to cool to add the yeast

Nearly there! :-)

I added the yeast around 15mins ago and took a reading, writing came to 1.050.

Also took a cheeky taste! :-P can't wait for the taste after a month! It's gonna be a good summer

 

[bobsbeer]

Well done, Nice pics. :thumb: Don't panic if it takes a while to get going. It will.

 

[joe1002]

It's a great kit, well done. :thumb:

 

[Grotzilla]

Cheers lads :

 

[taxidiver]

You picked a great kit to start with, nice pictures.

Geoff

 

[prolix]

great stuff mate, wherry is a good pint.

great pics too! :thumb:

 

hi mate your off to a flying start .... :thumb:

love the pics .... ..

that should be a great pint ..... : ..

regads mick... :hat: .

 

[Colsa]

looking good :thumb:

 

[Grotzilla]

Just got my bro to send me a pic whilst im at work. Looks like its iff to a cracking start!

 

[joe1002]

It does indeed :thumb:

 

[Grotzilla]

Ive not seen the airlock bubble once byt its clearly fermenting lol :s im gonna take another gravity reading in a few days

 

[Grotzilla]

Maybe I didnt put enough water in it?

 

[bottler]

Maybe I didnt put enough water in it?

Dont worry mate, mine never bubbles.The lids leak at times and pressure escapes that way.

 

[Grotzilla]

Hey guys me again :p jus took a gravity reading and its at 1.025 so seems to be going well. One concern though is this crud on top normal?

Took a swig from my sample jar and it smelt and tasted wonderful

 

[ScottM]

Looks fine to me. I believe the crud you can see is just yeast. This can sometimes be helped by stirring the yeast into the brew when you first pitch it. I've often done this to make sure ALL the yeast is in the brew doing its thing, rather than some of it lazily sitting on top of the foam lol.

The bubbler was over-filled. You only need to fill it so that the bottom balls are filled on each side. The maximum fill is 1.5 bulbs on each side. Anything over that will find the airlock taking a lot of pressure to move, thus promoting the gas to escape elsewhere, and when it does bubble it'll spit water out. Common mistake, and nothing to worry about :)

 

[Grotzilla]

Nice one ill remember both of them points for my next brew! Do you think I should stir the beer now or shall I just leave it to get on with it?

 

[ScottM]

Nice one ill remember both of them points for my next brew! Do you think I should stir the beer now or shall I just leave it to get on with it?

Looks like it's doing fine to me so I would just leave it as is.

 

[Grotzilla]

Please tell me my beers not infected

 

[bottler]

I have a wherry on brewing from last wednesday,and just had a peep. Mine has only a very light foam, but no yellow blobs mate, but wait to hear more replys before you think the worst. Good luck :thumb: By the way are there any young children near the brew at any time ,that could have popped something in?

 

[Grotzilla]

Yeah I just moved the bucket about 1m and the yellow blobs appeared. I took a sample and it's at 1.02 took a taste and it's a lot more bitter than a few days ago