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Here's my 2nd year Prima Donna, hopefully starting to produce something this year. Maybe a late starter looking at the other photos on here, but I'm up in Aberdeen so to be expected I would think. Been fighting off aphids, caterpillars, slugs and snails for the last few weeks.

Started this one on 18th of Jan with 20L of Ashbeck water from Tesco and I think I threw in an extra 200g or so of dextrose if I remember rightly. Starting gravity prior to pitching yeast was 1.056. Used an aquarium heater to keep the temperature at 22degC. Strong activity started after about 24...

I'm going to be brewing this one for my first ever homebrew attempt. I'm planning to start it just before I go away on holiday for 18 days and then add the hops for a couple of days when I get back before bottling. Thing is, the kit instructions say that it should only be 8 - 15 days...