The First brew - Brew craft Munich lager and #15 Brew Booster, (Glucose, Corn Syrup, with added malt extract.). Basic Lager kit - European style lager. Note: Brewing Crafts recommends #20, 1kg brew craft hopped spray malt, also #60 German lager conversion kit. You can buy ingredients but I wanted a basic kit initially - something to baseline against, fermentation process, readings, bottling, gassiness (beer not yours truly), taste, sediment levels in the bottle etc.
Boiled approx 4 litres of water - should have been 2 so sayeth the book and label. (Main reason - temperature when adding the yeast. Temp was sitting at about 34 degrees Celsius once adding the first lot of cold water.)
Mixed the malt and improver kit into the big pot 4 ltrs of water keeping it over heat = simmering (gently) for approx 15 minutes and stirring. Brewing Crafts recommends gently boiling for 15 minutes. Tipped the mixed brew into the fermentor. (Should have added 5 litres cold to fermenter prior to this). Carried the fermenter to the garage. Then commenced adding the cold water. This did make things easier but next time will have to make sure I only use between 2-3 ltrs of water ie to ensure the temperature. Once the temperature hit about 31 degrees I then pitched the yeast (packet from the can), and stirred in until all yeast was just under the surface.
With Failure written all over the imminent bottles imagine my surprise in the end results.
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