Mate I live in London for 5 years get out to Brixton there is a craft beer pub ear the market. A pub on Brixton rd called something icqnt remember exactly anchor which regularly changes it's beers. Then there is a pub near but called the duke of Edinburgh which has a great beer garden. Another...
Another week on the bottle and it has improved even more! It struggles to hold a head though, not sure if that is the glasses I'm using to drink from or what.
So after a delay on bottling it I finally got my attempt in bottles about 8 days ago. After a shit day I couldn't resist trying a little sample and considering it can only get better from here I am very impressed!
Already organising a BBQ so I can show it off to my mates!
Yeah I've got an old fridge with a thermostat, it's the first brew I've done in the fridge though and today I was moving it and the fermenter fell out. So that can't be good.
I've done 2 brews before this one and had the fv sitting in a tub of water with a wet towel around it. I would throw...
I'm pretty excited about this one. Have to stop myself from opening the fridge continuously. You can smell the hops in the fermenter and it's bubbling nicely.
I put this down yesterday with a few small changes:
I used
2kg of liquid malt instead of 1.5
1.5kg of Briess wheat malt
0.7kg do LDM
As well as 150g of medium crystal grains steeped.
I also boiled with the LDM, steeped grain and 1kg of the LME and then added the rest into the fermenter...
Yeah I was going to ferment for 15 days as that is when I will next have time to bottle.
If I am to cold crash how many days before bottling should I do this and at what temp?
I currently have it at at 18 degrees.
Hi guys, I have a batch that has been in the fermenter for 6 days now and has a hydrometer reading of 1008. When I took the reading there are a lot of hops floaties that have come out. I was planning on waiting another week or two before bottling. Will this allow the floaties to settle at the...