Richie_asg1
Junior Member
I was on a roll after bottling my first mini cider, and as I had everything clean and sterilised decided to crack on with a Simply Yorkshire Bitter kit which is in a wobbly pouch.
Kit is one wobbly bag of liquid extract with a pack of yeast on the base.
First note is I have no Idea what the yeast was as it was in a plain foil pack. :-?
Recommends 1kg of brew sugar or 1kg of brew enhancer.
I went with;
880g Brewing sugar (using up a 1kg bag)
120g Golden granulated sugar (to make up the 1kg recommended)
500g Muntons medium spraymalt
3L of water on the boil I added sugars and spraymalt to that, then kept a boil going for 15 minutes adding;
25g Fuggles hop pellets @15 mins
25g EKG pellets @0 mins, left for 10 mins to cool.
Added sterilised wobbly bag to FV and 3L of cold water, then mixed hot hopped wort to FV and topped up with cold to 20L. Was a bit cold so added 3L warm water to finish at 26ðC
Aerated and pitched yeast packet & stirred in.
OG 1.054
The problem was that the cat decided that he wanted a drink while there was all this water around, and that the FV on the floor looked very interesting, so I was using elbows and feet to keep him away from it.
Then he discovered the few hop pellets I dropped ! I swear there's something in them that drives cats nuts.
Anyway if it tastes of cat I will know why. :grin:
Kit is one wobbly bag of liquid extract with a pack of yeast on the base.
First note is I have no Idea what the yeast was as it was in a plain foil pack. :-?
Recommends 1kg of brew sugar or 1kg of brew enhancer.
I went with;
880g Brewing sugar (using up a 1kg bag)
120g Golden granulated sugar (to make up the 1kg recommended)
500g Muntons medium spraymalt
3L of water on the boil I added sugars and spraymalt to that, then kept a boil going for 15 minutes adding;
25g Fuggles hop pellets @15 mins
25g EKG pellets @0 mins, left for 10 mins to cool.
Added sterilised wobbly bag to FV and 3L of cold water, then mixed hot hopped wort to FV and topped up with cold to 20L. Was a bit cold so added 3L warm water to finish at 26ðC
Aerated and pitched yeast packet & stirred in.
OG 1.054
The problem was that the cat decided that he wanted a drink while there was all this water around, and that the FV on the floor looked very interesting, so I was using elbows and feet to keep him away from it.
Then he discovered the few hop pellets I dropped ! I swear there's something in them that drives cats nuts.
Anyway if it tastes of cat I will know why. :grin:
