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[TheDrunkenDestrier]

Hi all. I've been a lurker for a while, harvesting this forum for brewing knowledge while drinking beer enthusiastically and writing about it for a couple of years, but last month I finally bought some homebrew equipment. My first brew is conditioning: a Coopers IPA kit with 1kg of light dme , safale US-05 and a 50g cascade dry hop. The pic shows the beer at 1 week in the bottle. Reasonably clear and good enough to drink but definitely green - won't be having another til it's 2/3 weeks old.
Looking forward to next brew already, I guess its a standard for everyone here to have something fermenting at all times, that's my goal!

[Quiet_Man]

Welcome to the forum TheDrunkenDestrier.

The beer looks good! As its International IPA day, maybe you should try another!

In fact, I think it's also International Beer Day tomorrow. How many bottles did you make?

[TheDrunkenDestrier]

36 500ml bottles, so a whopping 5 litre loss from a 23l batch! I reckon it's down to hop pellet soakage and my very careful bottling; the pellets were thrown in loose so there was LOTS of debris and a big yeast cake, and I left around a litre and a half behind to avoid bottling any of the slurry.

[johnrm]

Congrats TDD and welcome, good to finally have you on board!
Are you in the Bierhaus tomorrow night?

[TheDrunkenDestrier]

I'm working late but I'm hoping to make it there at some stage. Also looking forward to my first Rebel Brewers meet