In the Brew Room this Week

    This week we have started a Blueberry Melomel which is basically a blueberry Mead, made the same way we start off by fermenting the honey with water, yeast and the yeast nutrient and after about 2 weeks we then rack it off and add the blueberries ( the full recipe will be on the recipe page), we have decided to make up a yeast starter for this batch, it's like a mini brew just to get the number of yeast cells that we pitch way up and help with the high alcohol content.

     You can see in the picture not only the different colours we get from the different honeys but also how they change as they clear, the middle bottle is the Mead we put down at the same time as the Plum wine it was a dark dirty brown but has changed to a tan / orange colour.

     The Plum / grape wine is coming along and has received a dose of campden tablets to stop fermentation prior to sweetening with 950gm of sugar as syrup and then bottling bottling.

     The Hoptastic brewing in the fridge is going nicely and has gotten it's next dose of Amarillo hops and is undergoing it's secondary ferment.

    We tasted our Boadicea hop trial and thought it tasted very cidery we were quite disappointed with it and will give it more time under the house, as for the Bramling Cross it has a nice citrus / berry taste different to other hops we have tried so we will probably use it again.

    The all grain Saison was tested this week as well and has reached it's terminal gravity of 1.004 which is good news as we were not sure if the higher mash temps were going to stop it short, so once bottled it will come in about 7%. This should be quite interesting as there was no overt alcohol taste of testing.

Cheers and Beers