Hi all,
Just tried to make my first home brew from a few recipes online / advice from a seasoned home brewer.
Used mixture of dried ginger and grated frozen fresh ginger plus 4 limes. Added two tbsp of golden syrup and 1kg of brewing sugar plus ingredients to 5 ltrs water and boiled for around 2 hours.
Added to filtered water upto 19ltrs and added the pitched yeast.
Initial gravity reading was 1.018 (so not very high).
2 Days in and when I took lid off to see if anything was happening there's some small bubbles but no head. Lot of sediment dropped to the bottom. Yeast has all been mixed in.
Is this all normal for 2 days in?
Should I consider adding some extra (brown) sugar (disolved in water) and potentially some more yeast (bought 5g of champagne yeast) to increase alcohol content etc?
Cheers,
Tom
Just tried to make my first home brew from a few recipes online / advice from a seasoned home brewer.
Used mixture of dried ginger and grated frozen fresh ginger plus 4 limes. Added two tbsp of golden syrup and 1kg of brewing sugar plus ingredients to 5 ltrs water and boiled for around 2 hours.
Added to filtered water upto 19ltrs and added the pitched yeast.
Initial gravity reading was 1.018 (so not very high).
2 Days in and when I took lid off to see if anything was happening there's some small bubbles but no head. Lot of sediment dropped to the bottom. Yeast has all been mixed in.
Is this all normal for 2 days in?
Should I consider adding some extra (brown) sugar (disolved in water) and potentially some more yeast (bought 5g of champagne yeast) to increase alcohol content etc?
Cheers,
Tom