I started my third brew tonight. The Coopers Brewmaster Wheat Beer. I think a wheat beer should be a good kit to try as i have yet to actually taste a bad wheat beer, or at least one i do not like as its possible i have liked bad wheat beers.
Anyway so the only difference to the instructions were instead of 300g of dextrose, i used glucose as i have loads of the stuff. I used 500g of light spraymalt also. I also used a different yeast to the kit. I used Brewferm wheat beer yeast.
Just to be safe i also added 5 tsp of fermax yeast nutrient.
Im hoping that no bacteria got in and everything will work out nicely. No matter how safe you are, there is always a possibility of not getting the wort cooled quick enough before adding the yeast.
In my previous attempts i used water from the bath using the sprayer. This time i filled up using the pot i heated the water up in (from the mains in the kitchen) and poured it in. This took a few goes but it should oxygenate the wort nicely and be better quality water than from the tank in the attic.
My OG was about 1.040 but i could not get an exact reading due to foam. Im not so concerned about gravity readings at the moment.
Best to keep it in bottles for as long as you can,min 4 weeks.
ReplyDeleteThat was a long time ago yes. I keg these days and don't do kits but yes conditioning in the bottle for a month will make a better beer than one 2 weeks old. Same goes for kegging actually.
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