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The first brew. The beginning of an addiction is more like it. I can see it won't take very long until I'm dropping money on wort chillers, mash tuns and eventually kegging equipment. This started as a Pale Ale kit from the homebrew shop, but we bumped up the malt extract and added some Carapils steeping grains to increase the body and head retention. Also 4oz of Maltodextrine will help in this area as well. The Irish Moss will help clarify. After cooking the wort tasted great, and after fermentation it tasted fantastic. As I write this it is conditioning in the bottle and carbonating. I think it's going to be a great first brew, and a quite drinkable IPA. It clocks in around 67 IBU and 5.7% ABV seeing as we didn't hit our target original gravity.

Fermented wort, just before bottling:


Done and done. Nice clarity, love the taste and mouthfeel. Very fresh hop taste and aroma. Quite a lingering bitterness, not really balanced but goes over fine. Extremely good for a first beer if I don't say so myself.