MR2Jay77
Junior Member
Sorry, not really been very good at keeping this up to date 
Been a bit crazy here on my car project so kinda got side tracked....I DID take pics though :thumb:
So last weekend, I racked the ale off into a clean demijohn and dry hopped 4g of Cascade hops. Fermentation had reached the point where there was no activity and the krausen had completely subsided so I guessed that would be the right point to start the secondary. Tried the hydrometer and sure enough, it had reached the point I thought it would at about 3.75% is, so not a strong beer by any means. Was a bit cheeky and tried a bit from the testing cylinder as well :whistle: Ooooh....it has potential - even as fresh as it was, it tasted pretty good (if completely flat and warm obviously) but that gave me hope. remember, this is the first time I have done a beer like this.
So, after 7 days dry hopping, I decided last night that is was time to bottle. Measured out 37g of brewing sugar and dissolved that into 250ml of warm water. Transferred the beer into the FV with the sugar before bottling up. Forgot what a faff it was sterilising bottles as well :lol:
So I managed to get 9 good bottles out of this. There was a little left over but not enough to be worried about and certainly not enough for a 10th bottle. These are now carbonating and conditioning for 2 weeks before transferring somewhere cold. My first microbrew is nearly ready to drink :thumb:
I'm hoping it clears over these couple of weeks as well as it is a bit hazy in there
Been a bit crazy here on my car project so kinda got side tracked....I DID take pics though :thumb:
So last weekend, I racked the ale off into a clean demijohn and dry hopped 4g of Cascade hops. Fermentation had reached the point where there was no activity and the krausen had completely subsided so I guessed that would be the right point to start the secondary. Tried the hydrometer and sure enough, it had reached the point I thought it would at about 3.75% is, so not a strong beer by any means. Was a bit cheeky and tried a bit from the testing cylinder as well :whistle: Ooooh....it has potential - even as fresh as it was, it tasted pretty good (if completely flat and warm obviously) but that gave me hope. remember, this is the first time I have done a beer like this.
So, after 7 days dry hopping, I decided last night that is was time to bottle. Measured out 37g of brewing sugar and dissolved that into 250ml of warm water. Transferred the beer into the FV with the sugar before bottling up. Forgot what a faff it was sterilising bottles as well :lol:
So I managed to get 9 good bottles out of this. There was a little left over but not enough to be worried about and certainly not enough for a 10th bottle. These are now carbonating and conditioning for 2 weeks before transferring somewhere cold. My first microbrew is nearly ready to drink :thumb:
I'm hoping it clears over these couple of weeks as well as it is a bit hazy in there
