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Saturday 24th Oct 2009 22:41:53 Beer bottled! Well, that's half of it (i.e. 20 bottles) bottled anyway. M**** and I tried a little bit of the homebrew and decided it definitely needed more sugar; it was just way too . . . bitter. I added a bit of a sugar (about a teaspoon) to a small glass of beer and then extrapolated from there. Little bit of arithmetic later and a bit of guess work . . . and I decide to boil up 1lb of demerara (sp.?!) sugar in about half a pint of water and add this to the 15 litres (it's about that, perhaps a bit more) of homebrew. I've just tried another bit and it tastes much better with the sugar. So yeah . . . after a lot more sterilising and rinsing, I carted a load of bottles out to the garage and got busy syphoning beer. There was only one tragedy - one bottle broke as I was trying to use my bottle capper to push the bottle top on. There wasn't much broken glass but I've no idea if a splinter went into the beer or not, so I'll have to discard that. A splinter managed to catch my wrist somehow but it was only a light scratch. So now I just leave them in their bottles to settle for a month or two and then enjoy around about Christmas. | |
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