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 [...]
Posted in IPA, Tasting on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
With Phil and another mate, Chris, round on Tuesday, I decided it was time to crack open a few more bottles of the IPA, and see how its doing at the 4 week (since bottling) stage. I seem to be swinging back and forth with my thoughts on my first brew as I’m back to [...]
Posted in Commentary, IPA on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
I have decided to box up some of the Munton’s IPA, in order to ensure that at least some of it lasts for a few months. This should allow me the freedom to pinch a beer when I fancy one, but still allow me to learn how my beer tastes after a longer maturing period.
Posted in IPA, Tasting on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Three weeks after bottling the IPA, and a couple of weeks since the first (very early and slightly disappointing) tasting, I decided it was time for another go. I hoped this time, given we are approaching the 4 week mark where some suggest the beer should be at its best, the beer would be much [...]
Posted in IPA, Tasting on February 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I debated when to open the first bottle of my very first home brewed beer. I had intended originally to leave it at least one month, but some expert advice stated that it could be at its peak after as little as 4 weeks. This advice went against my experience when tasting Phil’s homebrew (see [...]
Posted in Bottling, IPA on February 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
At last, the time had come to get my beautiful beer into bottles. I’d spend a lot of time working out exactly how I was going to do this, so I felt well prepared.
I started off by filling the trial jar I bought on Saturday using a sanitised tube connected to the tap. Using the [...]
Posted in Fermenting, IPA on February 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
With the prospect of some time on Sunday where I might be able to bottle the Munton’s IPA , I decided it was time to take a hydrometer reading. I still don’t have a trial jar, though I hope to get one from the homebrew shop on Saturday. That mean carefully taking the lid off, [...]
Posted in Fermenting, IPA on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Great news. The beer is still fermenting. I popped the top off and gently dropped the hydrometer in. The reading was 1016, unmistakeably less that the previous reading. There were also some bubbles (though not that many) on the surface. I chose to give it another very gentle stir, being very careful not to splash [...]
Posted in Fermenting, IPA on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Having given the beer four days since giving it a good stir to try to kick it back in to life, I decided it was time to take another measurement. Rather than taking the lid off I decided I would draw a sample through the tap. I wanted to do this for a number [...]
Posted in Fermenting, IPA on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
“The Brewery” temperature is now back up to about 18 degrees C and the beer had a stir yesterday. It was time to take the lid off the beer again, and see if it was still dead as a dodo, or if it had been resurrected, like the boiler.
Good news I think. Comparing the picture [...]
