For my birthday Rachel got me the
Deluxe Brewing Starter Kit from Northern Brewer!!
It is awesome! Comes with 2 glass carboys a primary and secondary fermenter and a bunch of toys!
So now that I can brew full 5 gallon extract batches I decided to give the American Wheat Ale another go. This one should be better than the last time. First off I don't have to split the kit in half and hope it turns out. Second, from the first batch I found out there is 2 types of pry-off bottles. There are the one's the New Glarus Brewing Co. uses and then there are the ones that Lakefront Brewing uses. New Glarus's have a longer top part so the caps go on much easier and stay on. This batch is only old New Glarus bottles I recycled my old Lakefront ones.
On to the brew!
2.5 Gallons of water with the wheat malt extract to make the work.
The O.G. is 1.043 which is awesome because the kit says it should be 1.043 which should give me about a 4.3% ABV Beer. I will will let you know when its all done fermenting and I have the Final Gravity.
The wort is all ready to go in the carboy, the yeast is added now just got to wait 14 days till it can be bottled!
