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I started this brew a couple of weeks ago tell me what you think.
being a thrifty sort (tight git) I was drawn to some small jars of malt extract while wandering around Holland and barrat a few weeks ago and wondered if they would be suitable for brewing beer.
at £2.60 for 454g a buy one get one half price offer saw me walking out the door with four jars and a plan.
ingredients:
4 x H+B malt extract 454g
2 x medium spray malt 500g
brew sugar 300g
cascade hop pellets 75g
2.5lt water
11g Nottingham yeast
first got the water near boiling then added the spray malt and sugar and stirred until all nicely dissolved and then added the ME and brought up the boil.
next 50g of hop pellets and left to simmer for 20min then the other 25g for a further 10min.
transferred to FV through a sieve to remove most of the hop pellets (wont be using those again)
added rehydrated yeast.
put on landing where its a constant 21degrees
OG 1.052
took ten days to finish fermenting then was transferred to second fermenter through a jiffy cloth (boiled first of course) to filter out the rest of those bloody hop pellets.
its been in the second FV for 6 days now,smells lovely and is as clear as a bell so will be bottling later and taking FG, when done will update you on initial taste and FG.
being a thrifty sort (tight git) I was drawn to some small jars of malt extract while wandering around Holland and barrat a few weeks ago and wondered if they would be suitable for brewing beer.
at £2.60 for 454g a buy one get one half price offer saw me walking out the door with four jars and a plan.
ingredients:
4 x H+B malt extract 454g
2 x medium spray malt 500g
brew sugar 300g
cascade hop pellets 75g
2.5lt water
11g Nottingham yeast
first got the water near boiling then added the spray malt and sugar and stirred until all nicely dissolved and then added the ME and brought up the boil.
next 50g of hop pellets and left to simmer for 20min then the other 25g for a further 10min.
transferred to FV through a sieve to remove most of the hop pellets (wont be using those again)
added rehydrated yeast.
put on landing where its a constant 21degrees
OG 1.052
took ten days to finish fermenting then was transferred to second fermenter through a jiffy cloth (boiled first of course) to filter out the rest of those bloody hop pellets.
its been in the second FV for 6 days now,smells lovely and is as clear as a bell so will be bottling later and taking FG, when done will update you on initial taste and FG.