Brewing Day

Well, I finally did it. After many years of thinking about it, helping Good Rat Mike with a batch in July, taking a brewing class in August from Bader Brewing and gathering the equipment I needed I dedicated today to my first brew day.

The day itself didn't start off too well as I was called in to work on my day off at just before 5am. As the morning approached noon I thought all was lost as far as getting to brew but I got home in the early afternoon and went for it. Following the recipe wasn't hard at all and hopefully my attention to sanitation will pay off.

I decided on a recipe Bader Brewing calls Northwest Pale Ale which is a Mirror Pond/Sierra Nevada imitation. My original gravity was 1.052, just slightly higher than the 1.050 the recipe said it should be. Once fermentation is complete I'll take the final gravity reading and calculate the alcohol content. If all goes well it should be around 4.7%.