Very First AG #01 Basic bitter - ish!

[screamlead]

Just done another check and the SG is down to 1020 from 1052 -thats a 32 point drop and after 7 days, is this enough yet or should i leave a bit longer? Its a lovely brown colour tastes ace and is clear as a bell apart from some yeastie clumps floating around.
Just wondererd if its time to syphon off and rack into secondary yet?

 

[luckyeddie]

Windsor should come down lower than that. Mine has come down to 1.011 from 1.050 (although I was only expecting 1.014). I would give it another 2 or 3 days.

Edit:

Read what's written before putting fingers into gear, Eddie.

No problem with racking to secondary, but do not bottle yet until you get 2 or 3 successive SG readings the same. It's possible that you mashed at a higher temperature than I did and therefore extracted more unfermentables.

 

[screamlead]

Well i have to say - AG 1 is a success! I conditioned it in those 5ltr cans that are all over the forum 2 weeks ago. 1 week in warm 1 week in fridge and its absolutely mint - and i aint a beer drinker. will post pics later : :clap:

 

[screamlead]

Here we go - Kegged and conditioned using an Effes party keg - had to drink the original first!!
Then it turned into this- -

Going down great :thumb:

Gave my Turkish neighbor a shout and gave him a pint to try - this is how he paid for it - ha ha

I then gave him a bottle of wine/sherry i made some time back - made from pure dark grape concentrate - so he gave me a box of these :

 

[luckyeddie]

Nice to see the barter system is alive and well. My brother-in-law did my mash tun plumbing for me a couple of months ago - today I bottled his payment - 18 litres of lager. It would have been 18.5 but I drank some (and I'm not normally a lager drinker but this stuff is lovely).

Still, it's wasted on him - he likes the swill at the pub - Carling etc.

 

[evanvine]

Looks like you had an eventful and sucessful brewday with a great result.
Well done!