My brill brewday

[chopperswookie]

Had a brewday with a difference, usual story £4.99 Geordie lager kit, some spraymalt, brewing sugar and



hops!!!



lovely smell! boiled them 20 mins at a time adding the "tea" (if thats not the proper term sorry for upsetting the purists). Added the light spraymalt to the liquid, them the sugar and the can. after a good stir.....



starting gravity arond 1032. well impressed with the smell, hoppy bitterness is the best i can describe it. thought i'd tried hops with a lager first coz my lager always seem to miss something. spilt a bit and my jeans smell of hops!!

[delboy]

what hops did you use in there?

[Matt]

Put your glasses on Delboy

[oblivious]

what hops did you use in there?

Stryian goldings from the pic’s

[chopperswookie]

went to a brew shop for the first time today - cheers Stockport homebrew - its left me with kits to do until december!! decided to use stryians coz i heard they work really well when doing a lager.

[Vossy1]

Put your glasses on Delboy

Glad you had a gooden CW

[EYE JAY]

At last someone who's using a kit on a brewday good job!!

thinking about using hops in my kit brews but then the wife will have something else to moan at me about the cost

[chopperswookie]

and the smell! mrs chopper has been at work all day so all the windows have been open!

[dan_olo]

thinking about using hops in my kit brews but then the wife will have something else to moan at me about the cost

Explain to her that it's cheaper than a night in the pub. This may work best after she's had a glass of your finest!

[chopperswookie]

ok £4.99 for a lager kit at wilkos, about £1.50ish for the hops i think, half a bag of brewing sugar 60p, light spraymalt £3.29 - thats around £10.39. mrs chopper drinks Stella and lime (please don't lynch me or ban me from the forum) so even at wetherspoons (where she works) for the 36ish pints i knocked out this aft she would only get about 4 pints on a night out. homebrew rules!

[dan_olo]

With the other half working at Wetherspoon's you must have a pretty limitless supply of free beer bottles too. Yet another saving. Saves nipping round the back under cover of darkness to steal them I guess!

[delboy]

what hops did you use in there?

sorry i had my patch over my good eye

[J_P]

At last someone who's using a kit on a brewday good job!!

There's certainly no reason why you shouldn't Eye Jay I dare say there'd be a other / new kit brewers that would benefit from seeing how someone else makes up and / or tweaks their kit

[chopperswookie]

quick update - went out with mrs chopper shopping this aft and came home ot this! there was little or no activity last night but well on its way now.

[Vossy1]

You cant turn your back on those yeasty critters for a second