I'm well overdue for a new brew and now that I've cleared some space in the garage, I mean MoltenHops brewery, I can finally get some beer on the go - just in time for the barbecue season. This time it's another Coopers extract; Wheat Beer from the Thomas Coopers Brewmaster Selection. This is the same range as the Pilsener that became my successful "Juborg".
I've plumped for a wheat beer this time to see how close it can be to the gorgeous ales I used quaff when I worked in Belgium all those years ago.
Here's the brewing notes:
2/5/2009
Extract BBE: 4/6/10
Yeast: Coopers 14008W
External temperature: 10 degrees
Fermenter temperature: 24 degrees
OG: 1035
3/5/2009
8am - Bubbling every 15 seconds. I was expecting better than this so I give it a shake .
Fermenter temperature: dropped to 22 degrees. I drop the brew belt a little.
10am - Bubbling every 6 seconds. That's better.
11:30am - Every 3 seconds!
1pm - 2 seconds!
4:30pm - Woohoo! Every second!
10pm - Every second. Still going strong!
4/5/2009
7:40am - Slowed to every 3 seconds.
Fermenter temperature: 22 degrees still. I drop the brew belt a little more to the 10 litre line.
3pm - Sorting and rinsing bottles. Bubbling slowed right down. Not much krausen.
5/5/2009
8pm - Hardly any bubbling. SG: 1014 so I guess that it's now reached secondary fermentation time.
6/5/2009
7pm - SG: 1012
9/5/2009
Sterilized all bottles - 20 x 740ml PET, 24 x 450ml Grolsch, 8 x 330ml Cobra and 3 x 500ml Buccaneer. SG still 1012 so that's stable for 3 days now.
