Meetup - Thursday 30th March - Walled City Brewery

[bazza90]

Well folks,
Thought it was time to give an update. Started my brew on Saturday 22nd April and it went pretty well. Annoying though, one of the bags of hops burst so I've just kept all the hops in the fermentation bucket as I've read that the hops don't add much after they've been brewed in the wort.
Some notes for next time though

• When adding barley to the water, move the temperature to different parts of the boiler as it seemed to be reading low and then jumped quite high
• The element brings the temperature in the bolier up quickly.
• Don't cover the wort with a lid, the boiling wort rises and any loose hops stick to the lid

I've a siphon arriving tomorrow and I plan to bottle this weekend. I haven't tasted yet or measured the hydrometer. It's been fermenting around 16~17 degrees but I should have tasted, measured and probably bottled on Saturday past, but hey ho.