plumpton
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Well had a long days work, came home working 2hours more than i should... Decided to prep for a bit of brewing and also to bottle my Coopers Brewmaster Irish Stout which had finished fermenting.
I lookforward to this brew as i did it with a little Black treacle and substituted the sugar with Dark malt extract.
All going good thus far! :pray:
I began washing all of my bottles..enough for 13 litres of stout and all the others i own. I did usual wash sterilise and rise.
I then sealed all the bottles into a largeplastic container.
So.. on to the bottling, I Put 10 litres into easy kegs and this is where disaster number one started! my little bottler tip fell into my easy keg which was already 3/4 full!
I thought stuff it I aint risking the brew so will just wait until the keg is done.
I bottled the reaminder without too many problems.
I should have at this point stopped!! :?
Instead I then decided to sterilse 2 more fermenting bins... and get 2 brews going.
All was going well, decided to brew a Coopers Dark Ale with half malt extract and half brewing sugar. did the usual mixing adding water and stirring, when i checked the OG the reading was 1036 which i thought was way too low.. OMG I didnt put the half bag of sugar in!!!
Luckily I didnt hang about and got on the case.
I should again have stopped at this point!!
I then however decided to brew the Mexican Cerveza kit whichwas sat in the boiling water softening!
I useda new fermenter here and after mixing and pitching the yeast sealed up and the airlock doesnt look anywhere near as airtight as my coopers vessel.
I justhope all goes well and will keep u posted!
:
I lookforward to this brew as i did it with a little Black treacle and substituted the sugar with Dark malt extract.
All going good thus far! :pray:
I began washing all of my bottles..enough for 13 litres of stout and all the others i own. I did usual wash sterilise and rise.
I then sealed all the bottles into a largeplastic container.
So.. on to the bottling, I Put 10 litres into easy kegs and this is where disaster number one started! my little bottler tip fell into my easy keg which was already 3/4 full!
I thought stuff it I aint risking the brew so will just wait until the keg is done.
I bottled the reaminder without too many problems.
I should have at this point stopped!! :?
Instead I then decided to sterilse 2 more fermenting bins... and get 2 brews going.
All was going well, decided to brew a Coopers Dark Ale with half malt extract and half brewing sugar. did the usual mixing adding water and stirring, when i checked the OG the reading was 1036 which i thought was way too low.. OMG I didnt put the half bag of sugar in!!!
Luckily I didnt hang about and got on the case.
I should again have stopped at this point!!
I then however decided to brew the Mexican Cerveza kit whichwas sat in the boiling water softening!
I useda new fermenter here and after mixing and pitching the yeast sealed up and the airlock doesnt look anywhere near as airtight as my coopers vessel.
I justhope all goes well and will keep u posted!
:
:drink:
