Making your own beer: Greatest. Hobby. Ever.
I recently got into home brewing and I absolutely love it. I thought I'd share my experience as a first-time brewer, because I still can't get over the idea that, even though I made a few blunders along the way, I made a beer that tastes way better than stuff I normally buy - and for just a fraction of the cost. Anyway, here are my beer notes: BEER SPECIFICS Batch no. 1 - Pa cific Pale Ale Beer kit brand: Morgan’s Brewing date: 21 May 2023 Bottling date: 30 May 2023 Tasting date: 25 June 2023 RECIPE Batch size: 23 L Sugars / malts: Aussie Brewmakers Beer Improver ( 1 kg) Yeast: supplied with beer kit (1 sachet), and later SafAle S-04 (11.5 g sachet) Pitching temperature: circa. 26 degrees Celsius Fermentation temperature: 22.5 – 23.5 degrees Celsius with Kegland controller BREWING NOTES 21/5 Beer brewed. Specifically, what I did was heat a 1.5 kg beer kit and add it to my fermenting vessel (FV) with the Beer Improver and 23 L of water. I pitched the sachet of