Olliebrews
New Member
Sunday Lunchtime I began this new hobby of home brewing. Many years of thinking I should have a go and the realisation that its so straight forward with a starter kit, led my brother to buy me the gift of a St Peters Golden Ale and starter set from HBO.
Now the purists among you are going to flinch and recoil and tut and stroke your beards and pat your lovely bellies at this point. But my plan is to crack a couple of bottles or three on Christmas day. That's 19 days from brew to bloodstream :-?....I have read enough to know that patience is a key ingredient in this new world I am entering....so I will leave the remaining beer some additional weeks to condition afterwards.
As my brother is over on Christmas we will be sampling this frothy, fizzy or flat ale whatever the weather. Ill learn my patience lessons for the next time.
So my timescales are hydrometer reading guidance and approx. 7 days in the fermenter, (the kit does say 4-6 days). bottle it with the enclosed sugar pills. 5 days in the warm, 7 in the shed.
Would giving it a stir say day 3 help speed up the ferment by re-suspending the yeast?
I will report back on progress and the outcome...all very exciting, again I promise I will be more patient with the next one.
Now the purists among you are going to flinch and recoil and tut and stroke your beards and pat your lovely bellies at this point. But my plan is to crack a couple of bottles or three on Christmas day. That's 19 days from brew to bloodstream :-?....I have read enough to know that patience is a key ingredient in this new world I am entering....so I will leave the remaining beer some additional weeks to condition afterwards.
As my brother is over on Christmas we will be sampling this frothy, fizzy or flat ale whatever the weather. Ill learn my patience lessons for the next time.
So my timescales are hydrometer reading guidance and approx. 7 days in the fermenter, (the kit does say 4-6 days). bottle it with the enclosed sugar pills. 5 days in the warm, 7 in the shed.
Would giving it a stir say day 3 help speed up the ferment by re-suspending the yeast?
I will report back on progress and the outcome...all very exciting, again I promise I will be more patient with the next one.