I just decided to make another batch of beer for the summer. This time it will be darker and stronger!

Halfway into the fermentation I’ve now transfered the beer into the secondary fementer and everything seems to be in order. The yeast had formed a nice thick layer of goo at the bottom of the barrel and the smell was quite pleasureable with no rancidness. Even the colour was above expectations and the beer is […]

The fermentation has begun and a nice layer of "Krausen" has formed. It also seems that the lid is not 100% airtight, but hopefully this won’t hurt the beer at this stage. I will have to get a new bucket, preferrably one with a tap, for the secondary fermentation phase.

This is the big day! Finally I get to boil the wort and start fermenting my first beer. Still haven’t figured out a name for it yet… it’s going on my TO DO-list.
Preparations
Well, I still didn’t have all the equipment I needed to make my first wort boil, so I made a visit to the […]

Saturday morning I popped the nutrients bag of the yeast container. Three hours later it had swollen to ten times its size, and was ready for mixing with my starter wort (1 dl of malt extract into 1 liter of water). A couple of hours later the starter mix was emitting CO2 and the wonderful […]

So I decided to brew my own beer.
I initially had plans to make my own beer all the way from making by own barley malt, but after reading "How to brew" by John Palmer, I decided to make my first beer from malt extract. My first beer aims to be a scottish darkish red ale […]