Home Brew Beer - Est. 2006

The fermentation happened really quickly for this one. After brewing on Monday I watched the wort grow a big, foamy head all day Tuesday and the airlock then started bubbling on Tuesday evening. This continued all day Wednesday but was dying down by Thursday morning. The quick fermentation is expected for several reasons, namely the fact that this is only a 1 gallon batch and the yeast I have used (Safale S-04) is particularly quick.

I bottled yesterday (Saturday)  and managed to get 7 pints (bottles) out of the 8 pint/1 gallon fermentor. They were primed with about half a teaspoon of Young’s Body Brew (Malto-dextrin). I’ll leave them for about 2 weeks to condition and do their secondary fermentation thing.

The last 100 ml of beer from the fermentor was poured into a testing tube and I measured the Specific Gravity to be about 1.012. The original gravity before fermentation was about 1.055. These numbers combine to give the beer an alcohol by volume (ABV) figure of 5.6%! This is within the target for the recipe and ingredients I used so I am really pleased with this!

Now I’ve just got to wait 2 weeks-ish to sample…