Coopers Bitter

[Adam]

just kegged this first kit in my newly cleaned king keg.

FG a few days ago was 0.0010
but today it was reading around 1.006/7 (hard to tell, broke my hydrometer and the new one from Wilkinsons has interfering colour bands and i had a large miniscuc (sp?), i felt happy with it after 10 full days in the fermenter.

I used 80g tate and lyle prepped in boiling water and returned to the boil. The syphoning went well ... 23 litres takes a long time : }

I also used DaaB's insurance policy and transferred over 1 teaspoon of yeast slurry.

Hope i made no glaring errors.

Is there anything i can do with the yeast slurry... would TC take to an ale yeast?

smiles
adam

[Adam]

it was exactly what i was thinking, i can save some of the slurry in a sterilised jug and get my water cooler to run a small batch of TC on ale yeast.

fingers crossed for the keg and the beers cidery children to be

smiles
adam

[Adam]

(had a yeast volcano midweek with the ale yeast turbo cider.)

The Beer: with fears of infection running high i've taken to pouring a tumbler every two days.

i am liking what i pour. Started too sweet but the bitter and sweet combination at the moment is making it hard to stay at one tumbler.

swirling it around my mouth makes all the different taste buds go off,
no eggy smell or vinegaryness

the head is large out of the KK but once it goes down a 2/3ml head remains.

still have fingers crossed, but now i know i will be making up another kit sometime in the near future.

smiles
adam

[chopperswookie]

just done that kit with beer enhancer. got it down to 1002 which left it approx 4.02% smelt great bottling.

big welcome back to me, been having pc problems but so glad to be back on the site!! btw cheers daab