This has been one of the simplest goals I’ve taken on in a while.
After eyeing off homebrew kits for the last year I mentioned it to my partner a couple of weeks ago. Turns out we both liked the idea, so we bought a kit that weekend.
Started with a Pale Ale, and bottled it six days later. Played with getting the temperature up a bit during that week, but it was mostly plain sailing. Last weekend we bottled the ale, cleaned out the fermenter, and went straight on to our second brew – a Mexican style cerveza. This time we used more boiling water to get a higher starting temperature, which has since maintained itself. So seven days in we had already learnt something.
At this point we’ve got one batch proofing, and another fermenting, well on the way to being bottled. The plan is to do an apple cider after this, ready for Christmas.
It remains to be seen how good our homebrew will be, but as of primary fermentation it was doing fine. I’m hopeful.
