jmartyg
Well-Known Member
Hi,
I'm new to the forum. I've brewed a few kit beers from festabrew. Those are pretty straight forward and a good stepping stone to more time consuming and complicated things. Its a 23 litre bag. Throw it in the bucket, stir in yeast and there you go. Rack in about 5 days then bottle with a cup of corn sugar after 7-10. anyway, 3 of those turned out great, how can it go wrong?
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So I decided to go up another run and try a Muntons Blonde Beer kit thing. I also used a kilo of Muntons “Brewers Syrup”. I got it started all nice and dandy, the starting gravity was 1.039 and now its at 1.014 for about a week now. I'm not sure if it was destined to end that high or not.
Here is how I did it:
- boil a few litres of water and put into bucket.
- Put the yeast into a glass (half a cup) cooled to room temperature water.
- While im filling up the bucket, heat up the can and jar of syrup in boiling water and pour into bucket
- Fill the bucket to about 15 litres of boiled water.
- Stir, stir and stir
- Put the other 8 litres in straight from the tap (very clean well water)
- Drink a beer
- check temperature of bucket
- drink another beer
- check temperature of bucket
- pich yeast
it fermented great too, so I figured all was well. Maybe it is...
Anything I could have done to to make it end at that high a number? Is this fine for the ingedrients i've used? Any way to lower it? The reason I'm asking is because the other batches I've made ended around 1.004 to 1.008 but they were festabrew, not Muntons. Its not the end of the world though, and i'll bottle it and be happy if nothing can be done.
ive done alot of googling and multiple forum reading, but after my eyes stopped beign crossed, i still didnt have a solid answer..
Thanks
Marty
I'm new to the forum. I've brewed a few kit beers from festabrew. Those are pretty straight forward and a good stepping stone to more time consuming and complicated things. Its a 23 litre bag. Throw it in the bucket, stir in yeast and there you go. Rack in about 5 days then bottle with a cup of corn sugar after 7-10. anyway, 3 of those turned out great, how can it go wrong?
Festa: Magnotta::Festa Brew::Search Result
So I decided to go up another run and try a Muntons Blonde Beer kit thing. I also used a kilo of Muntons “Brewers Syrup”. I got it started all nice and dandy, the starting gravity was 1.039 and now its at 1.014 for about a week now. I'm not sure if it was destined to end that high or not.
Here is how I did it:
- boil a few litres of water and put into bucket.
- Put the yeast into a glass (half a cup) cooled to room temperature water.
- While im filling up the bucket, heat up the can and jar of syrup in boiling water and pour into bucket
- Fill the bucket to about 15 litres of boiled water.
- Stir, stir and stir
- Put the other 8 litres in straight from the tap (very clean well water)
- Drink a beer
- check temperature of bucket
- drink another beer
- check temperature of bucket
- pich yeast
it fermented great too, so I figured all was well. Maybe it is...
Anything I could have done to to make it end at that high a number? Is this fine for the ingedrients i've used? Any way to lower it? The reason I'm asking is because the other batches I've made ended around 1.004 to 1.008 but they were festabrew, not Muntons. Its not the end of the world though, and i'll bottle it and be happy if nothing can be done.
ive done alot of googling and multiple forum reading, but after my eyes stopped beign crossed, i still didnt have a solid answer..
Thanks
Marty