Brewblog: Kickoff w/ Northern Brewer Nut Brown Ale

My wonderful wife got me a Northern Brewer Deluxe Brewing Starter Kit (Glass) a couple of Christmases ago, and I've been slowly expanding my "brewery" ever since. I've made maybe 6 batches of beer using the kit. One of which I royally messed up (NB Bavarian Hefeweizen) when I scorched the malt in my newly-keggle-fied boiling vessel (on high heat of course).

So far, here's my inventory of equipment:

Northern Brewer Deluxe Starter Kit:
- 6 Gallon Primary Fermentor (Glass), Fermometer, Bung, Airlock, Blowoff Assembly
- 5 Gallon Secondary Fermentor (Glass), Fermometer, Bung, Airlock
- 6.5 Gallon Bottling Bucket, Bottling Spigot, Bottle Filler, Bottling Tubing
- Auto-Siphon, Siphon Tubing
- Beer Bottle Brush, Bottle Capper
- Carboy Brush

I also had a few pieces of equipment from my prior homebrewing adventures of years past:
- Another bottle-capper
- Another 5 gallon secondary glass fermentor
- Airlock (from a Mr. Beer kit)
- One of those common orange dual-vent carboy caps
- ~3 Gallon stainless steel kettle (w/glass lid that I interchange with the keggle below)

And a few new acquisitions and creations:
- 15 gallon boiling "keggle", modified from an old stainless Miller keg (inherited)
- 10lb. CO2 canister w/ regulator
- 4 ball-lock corny kegs
- 1 set of ball lock inlet/outlet tubing, "foam-free" faucet, and connections (I can tap one keg at a time)
- 4 Perlick 545PC Flow Control Faucets (Xmas gift from Santa/Father-in-Law)
- ~7.x cu ft. Freezer (from grandmother-in-law)
- Johnson Controls A419 Temperature Controller (to convert freezer into kegerator)
- Bayou Classic SP10 High-Pressure Outdoor Gas Cooker
- ~20' counter-flow chiller w/partial convolution (see: http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/homebrewing/wort_chiller/)
- ~2' stainless steel spoon
- 2 reusable hop bags
- Yet-to-be-finished ~56qt mash tun cooler (still have to cut slots in my manifold, otherwise done)

Anyhow, I expect to be posting updates on future brewing exploits, so to kick it off, here's my 6th-ish brew: the Northern Brewer Nut Brown Ale (extract kit). This is video I took of the fermentation just a mere 24 hours after directly pitching dry yeast into the wort. Not bad I think, considering that Danstar recommends prepping the yeast before pitching it.

Yum.

Vitals:
Brewed: 4/14
OG: 1.050
FG: 1.012
ABV: 4.9%
Kegged: 5/21