Geordie Yorkshire Bitter - split kit with differences!

[WishboneBrewery]

OK, I've gone and done it... these should be pretty different.. One weak and light, and One Dark and bitter!

In FV1:
20 Pints of Geordie Yorkshire Bitter
ASDA Smart price Liquor
500g Medium Spray malt
280g Brewing Sugar (just what I had left in a bag)
100g Demerara Sugar
20g Target Hops Steeped for 15mins in cafetiere (Hop Tea)
Kit Yeast used and brought to life for a good couple of hours before pitching
OG: 1040

In FV2:
20 Pints of Geordie Yorkshire Bitter
ASDA Smart price Liquor
500g Light Spray malt
20g Saaz Hops steeped for 15mins in cafetiere
Safale s04 Yeast also working well before pitching
OG: 1032

Are they going to be OK or awful?
They might both be awful, but I'm thinking of these as experiments before I make a mess of any other kits

**edit for picture**

[PMH0810]

If I had a 2nd FV I'd be doing something similar (of course, if I had a 2nd FV I'd never go out). Keep us posted?

[WishboneBrewery]

The Only Drawback here is I shall probably have to prime my bottles rather than priming my Bottling Bucket (which is FV2)
I do have some other buckets but I'd have to buy a drum tap, I'll probably stick to 1 Bucket brews after this as I think I bent my head a bit trying to remember what volumes of liquor to add...
I mixed the Kit and the liquor in 1 bucket first to less than the stated full 40 Pints, then had 1L dissolved malt/sugar and 1L-ish of Hop Tea.
They both have a nice rocky head this morning
I should have taken pictures really but the camera would have just added to my feeble thinking (lightly dopey head from Friday night at the Bradford beer fest)
My rehydrated yeast was pretty impressive as both the Kit Yeast and the Safale04 were trying to escape from their sterile cling-filmed jugs, the S04 was really going for it. Pitched the Yeast at about 24 Deg C.

[WishboneBrewery]

If anyone is looking, could you tell me if 2 days was all the yeast needed to drop the gravity down to 1010 / 1008... It was a full packet of yeast which was well going for it when pitched into a 10 pint brew. Does anyone think I should rouse the yeast a bit, though I reckon its about at its FG looking at the readings.
I'll probably leave it until the weekend to bottle anyway...
Cheers

[PMH0810]

Never had a fermentation that fast myself but they do crop up un the forum from time to time.

Keep an eye on the reading and if it doesn't change after two days, bottle. I usuall only get to 1.010 t0 1.012.

[brysie]

if I had a 2nd FV I'd never go out

i bought a second fv in wilcos last week to get another wherry on and d`you know what?.....
i want a third one now so i can whack another of ditches stout on before this ones all gone. [damn him]

[WishboneBrewery]

Cheers guys It was double the amount of yeast for the volume, I just expected the one with more sugar/ spray malt to ferment for longer!

...and Brysie, that Stout is tempting, its sat on here >>> http://pdtnc.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/t ... w-line-up/ just waiting... but it would be so tempting to buy another kit and do 2 full FV's full.
Every week of maturing its had it has just got better and better, its improving much quicker than the Wherry which isn't really my fav its drinkable but its got a certain twang to it that I'd suspect shouldn't be there in the real pint.

[WishboneBrewery]

Primed with 40g Brewing Sugar and bottled today (07/03/09) 23 Bottles of each and half a 2L coke bottle, all capped and at 20 Deg C for 1 week. I've wrote on all the crown caps so I don't get them mixed up, GYB Saaz & GYB T - Geordie Yorkshire Bitter Saaz + Light Spray Malt & Geordie Yorkshire Bitter Target + Medium Spray Malt + Brewing Sugar + Demerara.
My sneaky little taste of both brews are quite promissing as they both taste better than the Woodfordes Wherry, I'll be looking forward to these ones. The Saaz batch with the Safale s04 Yeast dropped out almost clear whereas the Kit yeast stayed in suspension a bit more.

I'm going to have to start printing labels!