Corning Redhead Batch 001

Brew Day #3. Shooting for an Irish Red. I titled it Corning Redhead because I'm hoping to take a big chunk of it with me to Elisa's brother's wedding (She's from Corning, and the brother is allegedly a redhead).

I decided to try a partial mash brew, using a bag to mash. Before trying it, I watched this clip from NorthernBrewer. I'll upload the recipe sheet soon, but here are some pictures from the brew day.

I used Kent Goldings in a nylon bag during the boil.

It was so windy, I had to bring my setup inside to get the wort to boil.

12 hours after brewing, it's already fermenting like crazy!

Lessons learned: 

• 1 tank of propane only lasts me 2 brew days. Luckily, I was already smart enough to have a back-up tank.
• "It takes a log of beer to make good wine"... It takes some wine to make good (the jury is still out on this adjective) beer?
• Fermenting in a carboy is WAY cooler.
• The 2 'extra' clamps that came with my wort chiller aren't actually extra, they're used to clamp the plastic tubing to the copper. When I first turned the water on, the plastic tubing shot off the coil, luckily, the water didn't make it into the wort.