boozah

Hooray

at long last, back to brewing again, hard to find time lately, but managed to get two down in a frantic evening, hoping that the O wouldn't wake up. It's still pretty cool, about 14 C under the stairs, so still have time for a lager or two before it warms up. I've just about run out of Pales, so I figured a nice ale was in order as well.

Brew #1 20/10/2007

Cascade Golden Harvest Lager kit

1 kg LHBS light dried malt extract

500g Brigalow dextrose

10 g Saaz hop pellets steeped in just-boiled water for ~ 2 minutes

plonk the lot into 23L fermenter

Activated Saflager yeast (7g satchel)

At 24 hours, no bubbles, but  the fermenter has a crap seal...

d0 SG= 1.046  T= 14C 

Brew#2 20/10/2007

Cooper's Australian Pale Ale Kit

1 kg LHBS Light dried malt extract

500g Brigalow dextrose

250g 60L Crystal malt (grind in coffee grinder, contain in muslin, place in saucepan, slowly raise to 95C over about an hour)

14 g East Kent Goldings hop pellets, last 10 minutes of grain steeping

activated Cooper's Australian Sparkling Ale yeast (out of date, but proven)

lobbed into fermenter.

no action first thing the next morning, but putting on belt heater and putting blu-tak around airlock o-ring gave rise to nice, slow, satisfying bubbling.

d0 T= 24C   SG = 1.045 

d1 T= 20c  

Other plans include a two can stout (Cooper's stout, and cooper's irish stout, with some chocolate grain), a honey porter, and using an old ginger beer kit for fermentables with a bitter tin