Right. Here we go with brew number two. This time it's a bitter, Woodfordes Wherry, and my mate is helping me as he's interested in what I'm up to.
We sanitize the King Keg pressure barrel, including its float system, with the supplied sterilizing solution. Unfortunately whilst tipping the water away down the toilet* the float system follows it and lands in the loo. Ah. Not too sterile then? I start again with a new bowl of sanitizing solution to clean the float system.
I follow the brewing instructions and add the extract and water in a similar way to the last brew. This time though there's nothing said about adding any sugar. Apparently it's already in the extract which is probably why there's two cans of it supplied.
Once again I add the yeast before I take the gravity reading just as I did with my first brew. Muppet. I quickly take a reading. The Original Gravity (OG) is 1034 which I think is pretty low but what do I know?
The barrel temperature reads 27 degrees. The ambient temperature in the garage is 20. I wrap my brewbelt around the barrel to try and maintain a steady temperature of around 24.
And that's it for brew number two. Fingers crossed.
*Yes, I have a toilet in the garage. Look. I didn't put it there and it's not used for number 1's or 2's anymore anyway. Still, it is pretty weird I agree. Useful though.
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