Monday night i made up a batch of self-styled canadian honey beer, basicly,
1x 1.7kg can of coopers canadian blonde
1kg of honey
350gms CSR brewing sugar.
10gms challenger hops boiled for 5 mins with the honey.
I pitched about 1L of wyeast 1084 irish ale starter,
Last night (thursday) i had a wiff of my airlock (which has been bubbling away consistantly since tuesday morning) and it smelt odd, sorta beery, but also a bit 'sour' for want of a better word.. almost citrousy.. it didn't have this smell a couple of days ago..
i got up this morning and had another smell, it smells different, not as potent, but i was a bit worried about it still so i thought i would do a gravity test, so i drained off a testable amount, managed to turn the tap completely the wrong way to turn it off.. cleaned up the mess and tested, it read 1028ish, now it only had a starting gravity of 1042 but im now not so sure that the starting gravity was correct... its a 23L batch...
I tasted it, and it still was a bit sweet, and didn't taste *BAD* but im still not sure what to think..
do you think my SG reading is correct with those ingredients?
isn't it fermenting a bit slow?
its been sitting at 18 deg mostly, however the first night it dropped to 16...
1x 1.7kg can of coopers canadian blonde
1kg of honey
350gms CSR brewing sugar.
10gms challenger hops boiled for 5 mins with the honey.
I pitched about 1L of wyeast 1084 irish ale starter,
Last night (thursday) i had a wiff of my airlock (which has been bubbling away consistantly since tuesday morning) and it smelt odd, sorta beery, but also a bit 'sour' for want of a better word.. almost citrousy.. it didn't have this smell a couple of days ago..
i got up this morning and had another smell, it smells different, not as potent, but i was a bit worried about it still so i thought i would do a gravity test, so i drained off a testable amount, managed to turn the tap completely the wrong way to turn it off.. cleaned up the mess and tested, it read 1028ish, now it only had a starting gravity of 1042 but im now not so sure that the starting gravity was correct... its a 23L batch...
I tasted it, and it still was a bit sweet, and didn't taste *BAD* but im still not sure what to think..
do you think my SG reading is correct with those ingredients?
isn't it fermenting a bit slow?
its been sitting at 18 deg mostly, however the first night it dropped to 16...