Posted in Strawberry, Tasting on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
As we had some guests round on Tuesday, we opened one of the half bottles of Strawberry wine, os that the girls could have a glass each with their meal:
(Please forgive the quality of the last few images on here - my camera is still full of holiday pictures and I keep having to delete [...]
Posted in Bitter, Fermenting on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
So, 3 days after I kicked off the Sherwood Forest Bitter, it is time to add the bag of hops. I stupidly added them before taking a picture, but it was basically a small seal bag, about the size of a couple of postage stamps next to each other, full of what looked like a [...]
Posted in Merlot, Tasting on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
As intented, with today’s Sunday lunch, I had a glass of the Merlot that I bottled yesterday.
As you can see, it looks the part. Tastes pretty good too
I am really pleased to report that this is definitely a decent quality Merlot. I’m very pleasantly surprised. It already has a complex, fairly deep flavour [...]
Posted in Brewing, Rose on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
My final task for the weekend was to get a second wine going. I have had this kit for quite a while now. I got it with the first lot of wine gear, so its about time I got it going.
I emptied the bag of grape juice into the demijohn and rinsed out the bag [...]
Posted in Brewing, Plum on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
After a quick taste of the recently bottled Strawberry wine suggested it would be a very pleasant summer tipple, the missus persuaded me to kick off another. She picked a plum this time. Starting it brewing began by pouring the contents of the tin of grape juice into a sanitized demijohn and adding 1.8 litres [...]
Posted in Bitter, Brewing on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
After bottling the stout I took a trip to the homebrew shop while the fermentation bucket was soaking. I had intended to buy a lager style beer ready for the summer, but for no reason at all the missus pointed this box out so I figured - why not. I am keen, for now at [...]
Posted in Bottling, Merlot on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
After yet more bottle cleaning, I was ready to bottle the Merlot that had been clearing. Having had issues when syphoning the Strawberry, I bought a new syphon from the homebrew shop. I also attached an extra length of tube to the tap, so that this could be fed to the bottom of the bottle, [...]
Posted in Bottling, Stout on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
The next task for the weekend was getting the Stout bottled. Having got the laborious job of cleaning all the bottles done, I added 60 grams of sugar to some freshly boiled water and stirred it until it was dissolved. I went for 60 in the hope it would come out a little less fizzed [...]
Posted in Bottling, Strawberry on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
At last I finally had a free weekend, so I had lots of brew related stuff to do. I started by bottling the Strawberry wine which has been clearing for about a month. I had already knocked up some labels:
As it had been my girlfriend who had wanted me to brew this wine, I decided [...]
Posted in IPA, Tasting on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
My first brew has now had over two months in the bottle. After throwing away the Light as detailed in the post below, I decided to see how the IPA is now. I opened one of the beers bottled in the cheap lager bottles (and my initial suspicions with these bottles is that they don’t [...]
