First brew is in the Carboy and fermenting… turns out on my dry run I had closer to 4 gallons of water and not the 5 I had estimated to begin with.
All told it was 3.5 hours to from start to finish (finish being the carboy in a water bath).
At this point the only thing I’m worried about is the carboy water bath. The bath has been holding steady at ~78F unless I add ice to the bath then it drops to ~70F which is good. This particular ale doesn’t like to ferment above 80F. The plan for the moment is to let the wort/beer ferment until Monday night and then transfer to a keg. I don’t need to do a secondary fermentation since I’m going to be using a keg to infuse the CO2, however I still do question that particular move.
More on the kegging and CO2 process when I actually do it. Which reminds me I need to find a industrial gas supply company and get my CO2 tank either filled or swapped.
Pictures are up on Flickr… blogspot is to much of a pain in the ass to load pictures.