{"id":27,"date":"2011-01-04T03:14:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T03:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebottlefarm.com\/blog\/files\/2a6aa4e9e2db01fd547abc57a57d3680-12.php#unique-entry-id-12"},"modified":"2017-12-07T20:30:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T01:30:41","slug":"first-brew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/first-brew\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Brew day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #292929;\">Amarillo American Wheat<br \/>\nThese are the notes from my first batch of beer. For my first beer I brewed a true brew American wheat kit.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve wanted to homebrew beer for a long time. I\u2019ve even owned most of the\u00a0equipment\u00a0for a few years. What\u2019s been keeping me from getting it done? I suffer from perfection paralysis, I\u2019m not a perfectionist, but with some projects, I can\u2019t seem to get off the ground until things are just right.<br \/>\nI finally had enough\u00a0inertia\u00a0to make the leap this past Monday, and all it took was getting a copy of the complete Joy of Home brewing. It\u2019s funny that after reading the first few chapters of the book, I had enough confidence to get going. It\u2019s rare the that a intro book is this good, if you want to try home brewing, this book will get you started no question.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imageStyle\" src=\"http:\/\/thebottlefarm.com\/blog\/files\/img_0072.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0072\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #292929;\"><br \/>\nThe beer I\u2019m brewing is based on the True Brew american wheat extract kit, but I didn\u2019t brew it exactly as it was in the box. I changed the boil time, the hop variety, quantity, and addition times. Those are the changes I intended. I have also made some changes that I did not intend, aka mess ups. I had a boil over, a few unintentional flame outs, I didn\u2019t read the instructions on my yeast, and I had a cooling problem. All of these were just\u00a0inconveniences and shouldn\u2019t significant\u2019y impact the beer. Or as they say,\u00a0opportunities\u00a0to learn. The good news, is that\u00a0when I checked the airlock the next morning, it was bubbling away. I\u2019d made beer! There are a few more steps to complete, days of fermentation, dry hopping, bottling and bottle conditioning before it\u2019s ready for drinking, but I have made my first batch of beer.<br \/>\nSo what\u2019s next? I\u2019m going to follow the standard home brewing progression. I started with an extract kit, I plan to move on to extract and specialty grain brewing, and eventually making own recipes once I can follow a recipe well. Some day (when I\u2019ve got a lot of free time) I\u2019d like to try all grain brewing. I plan on brewing another batch as soon as I bottle this one, because I know my time afterwards will be limited. If anyone has recipe\u00a0recommendations, or suggestions on an appropriate style of beer for me to brew I\u2019d gladly take them into consideration. This first batch is going to be a light and hoppy american wheat beer. I\u2019m thinking this next batch should be something\u00a0appropriate\u00a0for spring, bonus points for utilizing season\u00a0appropriate ingredients.<br \/>\nThis leaves one question for you. What\u2019s been lingering on your list for a while that will be crossed off next? What will it take to get you to pull the trigger?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amarillo American Wheat These are the notes from my first batch of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[117,8,6,5,98,7],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-and-thoughts","tag-117","tag-amarillo","tag-brew-log","tag-extract","tag-getting-started","tag-wheat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}