I finally bottled my beer this week.
My first ever batch!
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It seemed to have stopped fermenting even though the
SG was a bit high at 1.018. I took some advice from the guys at
Irish Craft Brewer and decided to bottle anyway. the colour and smell were much more intense than I thought they would be but it certainly resembled beer. As per the instructions, I added 90 grams of sugar dissolved in a little boiled water, which I let cool.
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I had
sterilised the bottles and equipment so next I rinsed the bottles well. I used a stash of brown
Grolsch flip-top bottles that I had kept from a different life a few years back.
The bottling went well and quickly and I soon had twenty-two 45cl bottles of
Brewferm Grand
Cru ready for conditioning. I had a little left over so I put it into a green
Grolsch to keep it
separate. (For some reason green export bottles are 50cl and
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brown domestic are 45cl) Hopefully I will try this in a week or so to see what it's like.
Brewferm recommend letting the brew condition for 6-8 weeks before tasting. I'm not a patient man.....
I will look at the
The Homebrew Company website over the weekend and see what I want to try next. Might get two more kits under my belt before I try and extract or similar.
1 comment:
Beer makes me energetic whenever i read or see a beer. Thanks for your post that tells so much about beer!!!
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