In the Brew Room this Week

     This week we have transferred both the Meads over, with the medium Mead coming out almost as clear  as water and will only need another 2 weeks before bottling, while the sweet Mead although clearer still has a long way to go.

     The Plum wine has also been racked off again and on tasting we were most disappointed with the lack of plum taste and also quite a strong yeast taste. We decided to modify the brew with the addition of 4.8L of grape juice and we will probably look at sweetening the wine before bottling with some sugar syrup. We will also adjust the recipe and double the fruit and bring the total volume down to 15L

     Finally the long awaited correct fridge controller arrived, this unit plugs into the mains power and the fridge plugs into it. It has a temperature probe which you place inside the fridge ideally against the brew which tells the unit to switch the fridge on and off to suit your selected temperature. At the moment we have it at about 18.5*c and have put down a batch of Hoptastic to try.

     We also had to dump a batch of beer this week that we had brewed in august as it had a very unpleasant green apple taste that was just not going away with time, not an enjoyable thing to have to do but it was taking up room and milk crates.

     Finally we received our order of Ham on Rye and Coffee Pants today from HopDog BeerWorks and we look forward to drinking them.
     Ham on Rye took out the poll for your favaourite HopDog Beer
Cheers and Beers