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mead update, start of Festival beer
Feb. 20th, 2008 11:24 pmThe mead is finally bottled!!!
The final hydrometer reading was 1040 and it was slightly bubbly. It tastes good enough to drink right now but will probably also do well for being left in the bottle for a while.
Because of the slight fizzyness we didn't add priming sugar to the bottles.
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celsa we have a couple of bottles for you in exchange for your honey contribution. Please remind me that I have them, I have a brain like a sieve.
After we finished bottling the mead we immediately sterilised the fermenter and made up the Festival beer. It's a bit late (29 days before Festival) but if we can keg it by the first weekend in March, all should be well. If memory serves me correctly that's how long the beer had last year and it was popular.
It is again going to be a high alcohol brew. 2 kits, 30L water, 1kg dextrose and 1kg "brew enhancer No 2" (maltodextrin, dextrose and something else). Also, hop pellets soaked in water, strained and added to the mix. The hydrometer reading was at about the 10% mark. I'm going to change the way I add sugar next time, to reduce the alcohod content while still using two kits.
Tomorrow morning, when I have a brain, I may decide to water it down to something closer to 8% finished alcohol content.
I also have to pitch the yeast in the morning - it's still too hot.
As a side note - Rose didn't have an arvo nap today, so she went to bed at standard kid time (8.30pm) and I had the evening to do stuff in - without having to talk two year old the whole time.
The final hydrometer reading was 1040 and it was slightly bubbly. It tastes good enough to drink right now but will probably also do well for being left in the bottle for a while.
Because of the slight fizzyness we didn't add priming sugar to the bottles.
celsa we have a couple of bottles for you in exchange for your honey contribution. Please remind me that I have them, I have a brain like a sieve.After we finished bottling the mead we immediately sterilised the fermenter and made up the Festival beer. It's a bit late (29 days before Festival) but if we can keg it by the first weekend in March, all should be well. If memory serves me correctly that's how long the beer had last year and it was popular.
It is again going to be a high alcohol brew. 2 kits, 30L water, 1kg dextrose and 1kg "brew enhancer No 2" (maltodextrin, dextrose and something else). Also, hop pellets soaked in water, strained and added to the mix. The hydrometer reading was at about the 10% mark. I'm going to change the way I add sugar next time, to reduce the alcohod content while still using two kits.
Tomorrow morning, when I have a brain, I may decide to water it down to something closer to 8% finished alcohol content.
I also have to pitch the yeast in the morning - it's still too hot.
As a side note - Rose didn't have an arvo nap today, so she went to bed at standard kid time (8.30pm) and I had the evening to do stuff in - without having to talk two year old the whole time.
