New guy first brew introducing myself

[clay5769]

Hi all
New guy here just set up my first home brew
With 1 gallon brewdemon . Waiting on a batch
Just set up last Saturday

I have a coupon that said to join and
introduce myself and how to get a 15% discount
Thanks all Clayton

[bpgreen]

Welcome. Feel free to ask any questions you have. We were all new at one point, and I think we're all better at remembering what it's like to be new than people on some forums.

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[clay5769]

Hi
Awesome thanks...



Clayton

[John Sand]

Hi Clay, welcome aboard! Have fun, and keep us posted on your brewing.

[Beer-lord]

Welcome to the Borg Clayton!

[clay5769]

Hi all
First 2 questions, getting ready to take first brew out of the fermenter , instructions say wait 7 days , do I wait a little longer or take it right at 7 days.

Second question do I filter the brew before putting into bottles with the sugar?

Thanks all

[John Sand]

Longer is often better. I generally ferment three weeks. One sign that your brew in finished is that it should clear (if it's a clear style). I used to briefly shine a flashlight through the fermenter, I could see the difference as it cleared. Now I use plastic buckets and just wait three weeks.
Don't filter your beer, it should settle out in the fermenter, and even more in the bottles.

[clay5769]

Perfect thanks. I'll give it 2 weeks

[clay5769]

Hi all
Getting ready to bottle my brew.
Does this look normal the white stuff

[mashani]

I would just bottle it and not stress about that.

[John Sand]

I would be concerned about that, though pictures can be deceiving.
But it won't hurt you, so bottle it. I always taste when bottling which gives an indication.

[clay5769]

Hi
Thanks. Sure its not gonna kill me or make me sick?
What is it? And where does it come from.
It was floating on top

[berryman]

Hello Clay and welcome to the forum and brewing beer. Your last picture doesn't look to pretty but I would bottle and see. Not much of anything will hurt you in brewing and you will know right away on first taste if something went wrong. I get a lot of beer with floaties on top and turn out fine. Keep us posted.

[mashani]

Hi
Thanks. Sure its not gonna kill me or make me sick?

It is very difficult to make beer that will harm you. Pathogens don't survive the brewing process. That is why people made beer in mass quantities in the middle ages and Elizabethan times (and they didn't have sanitizers for their equipment like we do). Regardless, it was pretty much always safer to drink then the water it started from even if it got funky. Pretty much you would have to have used toxic metals or toxic chemical contaminated water for it to be truly dangerous.

Worst case it tastes bad. But I've bottled stuff much more gnarly looking then that and it was still good beer. So unless you taste it and it tastes like baby puke or strongly of vinegar (I seriously doubt either based on what I see in your picture) then I'd bottle it and wait and see.

[clay5769]

Thanks all..

Its in the bottles now, I'll know in a few weeks after refrigerator time