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First Time Brewer Question!

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  • 16-07-2015 9:40pm
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    Rigardo
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭


    Hey everyone,

    I've just started brewing beer for the first time. I went the easy root and bought a 1 gallon beer kit (Brooklyn Brew Shop's Chocolate Maple Porter) to be exact. It's an all grain kit and I had a blast making it.

    Got the kit pretty cheap off ebay but was a little disappointed as the yeast expired a month previous and I was missing a piece of tubing used for the first three days before being swapped out for an airlock.

    I gave it a go anyway and, despite my fear, it was fermenting away within the first 24 hrs. Unfortunately, due to my lack of tubing I had to go straight to Airlock which got a little gunked up with the vigorous fermenting.

    It will have been fermenting 10 days tomorrow and the recipe calls for it to be left for two weeks before bottling. I can't wait to get it bottled so I couldn't help but take a sample.

    My first impression was that it smelled like a porter which is good but the taste... quite alcoholy?...

    In my haste and under pressure I didn't take a gravity reading (a mistake not to be repeated) but my current reading is 1.022

    So, should it taste much different in a few days before bottling or after a couple of weeks in the bottles? What's your thoughts on the predominant alcohol flavor?

    Thanks folks


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    BeerNut
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    It's always going to be a bit green at this stage. It'll mellow with time. A beer like that will likely age well over the next year or so.

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    RasTa
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    Don't bother taking samples, especially from a 1 gallon batch! Patience is key and let it do it's thing. I'd give it another week before bottling and get onto the next brew.

    Buy a few of these https://www.thehomebrewcompany.ie/1-gallon-glass-demijohn-one-handle-p-1954.html and do some more brews. Better yet look out for some second hand.

    You can also buy grains and hops there and start cloning beers you like.


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    Rigardo
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭Rigardo


    Thanks guys, I came an amazing site called www.geterbrewed.ie. Brilliant for supplies and delivery is very reasonable. I bought a 2nd demijohn and some grains. I was going to double the quantity and brew 2 gallons of IPA but now I'm thinking of just doing 1 gallon of IPA and siphon my porter into the 2nd jar to continue conditioning.


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    azzeretti
    Registered Users Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭azzeretti


    Just be certain to take a reading before bottling. 1022 is still high and you shouldn't bottle until is a fair but lower for risk of secondary fermentation in the bottle causing bombs!


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