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Budding Brewer !
Just home from a long weekend away celebrating daughters 21st - supping a cheeky Boondoggle.
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Muntons Gold Old Conkerwood Black Ale that I dry hopped with Fuggles.
How did you find that? Mine was too sweet and overcarbed but i knew there could have been a half decent beer there,maybe i didnt let it ferment out properly
Fermentation stopped at 1020 initially and I struggled to get it going again. in the end I added some Safeale S04 yeast after about 16 days and gave it another week or so in the FV. It did change the beer and I dont think it is as nice as I thought it was going to be when I tried the sample used for the reading, but it did ferment further. I forgot to record the FG though and cant remember what it was now. Still an ok beer though and with the dry hopping I added it has a good hop flavour, but not too strong. I suspect yours may have got stuck leaving too many sugars in it. As you said it over carbed I wonder if fermentation had just slowed right down in both our brews and it carried on in the bottle for you.
I'd always assumed that Scandinavian countries brewed nothing but lagers. How wrong I was. The local 'remainder' shop, Noz, has for some time had on sale various bottled beers brewed by the Radanas brewery in Molnlycke, Sweden. Despite the fact that they were priced at only 0.79â⬠per 33cl bottle, I passed them, by assuming that they would be unlikely to appeal to a palate developed on British beers. Yesterday I noticed the last two bottles in the half price bin (0.40â⬠each). So I bought them. One was Amerikansk Bitter. The other was California Common. They were a revelation. The Amerikansk Bitter was a 4.5% abv, well hopped and full bodied amber ale. The Californian Common was a 5.3% abv naturally conditioned - I think - pale ale with a dry finish reminiscent of a good stout. If I see them on sale again, I won't hesitate to buy all that's available. I wish that I could tell you more about them but the bottle labels are in Swedish, as is the brewery's website (https://radanas.se/ ), a language which, sadly, I cannot read.
Boys night out [emoji106]
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...bloody showing off that is!
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