Sunday, 5 October 2008

Third Batch

A second go at Woodforde's Wherry started today. The Coopers Canadian Blonde came out of the airing cupboard and into the outside store today to make room for the new batch. I tasted the Canadian Blonde and it's dry and fizzy, so I think the fermentation must be complete. The beer was cloudy but the first pint of the last batch was cloudy too. The float seems to get covered with yeast during brewing, making the first beer out of the barrel a bit cloudy.

The temperature of the new must was 25 degrees C and the O.G. was 1025, which seems a bit low. I was careful to get every drop of concentrate into the barrel, washing the cans out with the boiling water, I put the correct volumne of water in and mixed the ingredients thouroughly, so I'm not sure why the reading was so low.