Nearly time to bottle!

[fredy]

Hi all,first real question from a newbie so please forgive me.Ive gone the most simple route for my first brew and gone for a youngs lager starter kit as i suspect many do,Brew day was last saturday and all went well,i decided to stick to the instructions and added 1 kg of brewers sugar and used tap water,i do understand that dme or bke would of been better but wimped out , og was 1040 and went off really well,by wednesday the foamy head had collapsed back into the grew so i took another reading which was 1010 so well on the way towards bottling the weeking i should imagine.im not expecting a great tasting brew when conditioned and will be pleased as long as its drinkable.
Im wondering whether there is anything i can do or add at the bottling stage which will either add or imrove the final flavor,im going to be batch priming and using a little bottler to bottle up.

Thanks in advance and sorry for waffling on :)

 

[joe1002]

I wouldn't bottle until next weekend, give the yeasties time to clear up :thumb:

 

[fredy]

Ok thanks,is it best to leave at the fermentation tempreture,bottling next weekend will give me time to go shopping for the next kit :thumb:

 

[LeedsBrewer]

yeah, I always give it at least 10 days in the fermenter before bottling. It'll be finished fermenting in 4 or 5 days but the yeast then clean up after themselves which creates a better brew :thumb:

I'd suggest the wherry for your next brew. The one can kits look cheaper but by the time you've added the 500g dme or bke to make them decent they work out at about the same price.

 

[fredy]

nice 1,will defenitly take a look for that one.