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Having shifted what was in my keg to bottles carefully to make way for my IPA I decided to get my Brupacks Premium started.

The Kit


Sanitizing while sorting out


Kitchen take over


Water treated with half a campden I knew I would have a good use for that thing


Steeping have to do this three times for 20 min each time .... tick tock


More flavour


More steeping third one for the kit and only one for the flavour pack


Yeast starting


Yeast doing its thing


Beaten to with in an inch of its life nice head


Gravity 1050 nice


Before Bed if you look carefully you can see a 2 inch head that's from aireating


All wrapped up


The jacket I don't use any more and fits around the FV nicely keeping the sun out and helps keep it at a steady temp, Under the zip is a stick on thermometer so undo the zip check the temp.

This should turn out to be a nice brew, This also felt a little more like brewing beer rather than the tinned kits.

Gr8 pics D, hope the brew turns out to be a good'un

Nice one, Damfoose.

I like the use of the coat.

Enjoy

Nice pics hope it goes well.

If I was you i would move the FV away from the printer just incase you get a crazy fermentation going and you dont want a volcanic eruption of yeast spraying every where,or put a pint glass over the airlock so it dont spray the printer.

I put a black bag over the printer as its not being used at the moment.

Well the brew so far ! Its like a a freight train and has a good 3 inches of foam on the top of it , It has also gone up in temp to 29 - 30c so I will have to take the coat off it and change that for a bin bag to keep the light off it.

Looks good i like the pics i haven't tried a brewers choice yet they do a good range.

Bongo wrote:Looks good i like the pics i haven't tried a brewers choice yet they do a good range.

Yes they do have a look Here Its the Leyland home brew shop but it should give you an idea.

Cheers i see on other sites they do beers of the world and a mash kit range as well.

Goto admit this has turned out quite fruity and 5% ish well thats the story so far, its been in a keg for 2 weeks and still a little cloudy but clearing nicley, If it lasts long enough to mature properly im hoping it turnes out good but this may not happen as im loathed to buy beer these days, I will definatley be doing this one again but with a LME next time and I may just dry hop to get it a little more hopy.

The fruitiness is probably due to the high fermenting temps. Try and keep it below 25 to avoid it in future, saying that, I quite like the fruitiness from high temps

stevezx7r wrote:The fruitiness is probably due to the high fermenting temps. Try and keep it below 25 to avoid it in future, saying that, I quite like the fruitiness from high temps

More than likley as this was brewed during our mini heat wave well autumn is upon us now so are cooler temps which will help, I should be able to geat quite a few brews under my belt and stop over next summer so im not brewing while it is hot unless i can get that garage sorted and a fridge to brew in