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 Fermenting, Stout on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Having got back from a weekend away, I decided to do a quick check on the Stout, to check that the gravity was still falling:
Disappointedly, I took this to be another reading of 1.013 meaning no more movement. I know Phil got down to 1.012 and ideally I’d like to be a fraction lower, therefore [...]
Posted in Fermenting, Stout on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I recently did some research into whether the 6 weeks that my previous brew spent in the fermenting bucket was too long (mostly on Jims Beer Forum - see my blogroll). It is clear that while modern yeast should be fine for up to a couple of months all being well, its certainly not advisable. [...]
Posted in Brewing, Stout on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Having finally bottled the Light, I can get this Stout going. I wanted to do a stout to start giving me a real choice of ale types in the future. I chose this one as I read that it was the closest stout kit to Guinness. I doubt it will come out anything like it, [...]
