Started this brew on 19th April 2012. Set FV off sterilising and cleaning while I made a hop tea of around 30g of Goldings hops to boiling water that had cooled slightly to 85'c. Left to steep at 85'c for around 25 mins until ~60'c.
Left tin in hot water to soften and boiled in 500g of DME to melt in. Added that, the hop tea and wort to FV. Then added 500g of brewing sugar, and topped up to 23l. OG came out around 1.042. Pitched the supplied yeast, and left fermenting overnight. Came to it the following morning to no activity. Then, came back home from work and saw the foam had come up to the top of the FV :thumb:
Been left in the FV at roughly 18'c ever since. Coming on nicely by the looks of it...
Will update this thread later when I transfer to secondary. Nice to hear other reviews of this that others have done before I get to bottle and sample :)
Left tin in hot water to soften and boiled in 500g of DME to melt in. Added that, the hop tea and wort to FV. Then added 500g of brewing sugar, and topped up to 23l. OG came out around 1.042. Pitched the supplied yeast, and left fermenting overnight. Came to it the following morning to no activity. Then, came back home from work and saw the foam had come up to the top of the FV :thumb:
Been left in the FV at roughly 18'c ever since. Coming on nicely by the looks of it...
Will update this thread later when I transfer to secondary. Nice to hear other reviews of this that others have done before I get to bottle and sample :)