Gday all
Great forum you all have here, looks all very friendly and helpful from what I have navigated through thus far.
Over christmas I was lucky enough to score a Coopers Micro Brew kit off the missus (what a lovely lady!) and this week set off about getting a brew down. The beer and ingrediants were what comes with the coopers kit (lager, 1kg brew sugar etc). The only thing i did different to the instructions while mixing was to add about an extra 500-700ml or so of water to the mix, so it was all up between 23 and 24 litres to the wort. A friend had said the lager tasted smoother with a tad more water so I tried it
As the southerners would know tis been a hot week, Monday night when I started it the wort temp sat at 28C, everywhere was too warm to get it any lower to the recommended 21-27C. On the Wednesday, I got the temp down to 26C but the bubbling out the airlock seemed to have stopped. I would have thought fermentation wouldn't of only taken 2 days, so i did a hydrometer reading and got 1014, today (Thursday) it's the same, no more bubbling is taking place.
I'm wondering if it is ready for bottling considering the FG reading isnt where it should be at 1008-1010, or would the reading be slightly higher as I added more water? The smell and taste are fine....just a bit puzzled!!
Cheers
Rod
Great forum you all have here, looks all very friendly and helpful from what I have navigated through thus far.
Over christmas I was lucky enough to score a Coopers Micro Brew kit off the missus (what a lovely lady!) and this week set off about getting a brew down. The beer and ingrediants were what comes with the coopers kit (lager, 1kg brew sugar etc). The only thing i did different to the instructions while mixing was to add about an extra 500-700ml or so of water to the mix, so it was all up between 23 and 24 litres to the wort. A friend had said the lager tasted smoother with a tad more water so I tried it
As the southerners would know tis been a hot week, Monday night when I started it the wort temp sat at 28C, everywhere was too warm to get it any lower to the recommended 21-27C. On the Wednesday, I got the temp down to 26C but the bubbling out the airlock seemed to have stopped. I would have thought fermentation wouldn't of only taken 2 days, so i did a hydrometer reading and got 1014, today (Thursday) it's the same, no more bubbling is taking place.
I'm wondering if it is ready for bottling considering the FG reading isnt where it should be at 1008-1010, or would the reading be slightly higher as I added more water? The smell and taste are fine....just a bit puzzled!!
Cheers
Rod