Woodfordes Wherry Newbie daft question alert

[Killick Greenie]

Hi everyone, this is a great forum and after spending a few days reading I couldn't resist getting stuck in. I've currently got the above mentioned brew in the fermenter and it has now been in residence for five days. It is still bubbling but very slowly. According to the destructions on the box it said it would be ready for bottling after 6 days. It seems to me that the general advice on the forum is to leave it in the FV until it has cleared. Given that I'm gagging for a drink :party: please can you offer erudite comment as to what I should do?

Thanks

 

[prolix]

take lots of hydometer readings and drink the sample tube, purely for quality control purposes mind.

But really leave it ten days then bottle it will be great, will take 4 fours weeks to come to full maturity but hey ho a couple of bottles a day as it is maturing gives you the experience of the changes in flavours you get when it is maturing. :

 

[Polymath]

Also get a second one on the go, if you don't have much money just go for one of the £9.99 ones from your local Wilko's. Reason for the second one is it will distract you from the first one. By the time you finished brewing the second one, the first one is done

Oh and welcome to the forum. Excellent group we got going on here.

 

[chiefstoker]

Also get a second one on the go, if you don't have much money just go for one of the £9.99 ones from your local Wilko's. Reason for the second one is it will distract you from the first one. By the time you finished brewing the second one, the first one is done

Oh and welcome to the forum. Excellent group we got going on here.

welcome killick

then get a 3rd, 4th and 5th one on the go... that seems to work quite well, if you want a drink get your mrs to nip t'offy whilst you make beer


: cs

 

[artyb]

hey mr chief stoker,
i have an edme german lager to start...as your drinking yours have you any tips and how does it taste.... :

 

[Killick Greenie]

take lots of hydometer readings and drink the sample tube, purely for quality control purposes mind.

I will do this, presumably I am looking for numbers decreasing?

But really leave it ten days then bottle it will be great, will take 4 fours weeks to come to full maturity but hey ho a couple of bottles a day as it is maturing gives you the experience of the changes in flavours you get when it is maturing. :

Sound's like a cunning plan :thumb:

Thanks

 

[Killick Greenie]

Also get a second one on the go, if you don't have much money just go for one of the £9.99 ones from your local Wilko's. Reason for the second one is it will distract you from the first one. By the time you finished brewing the second one, the first one is done

Oh and welcome to the forum. Excellent group we got going on here.

Now that is an outstanding idea, I like the logic!

 

[Killick Greenie]

Also get a second one on the go, if you don't have much money just go for one of the £9.99 ones from your local Wilko's. Reason for the second one is it will distract you from the first one. By the time you finished brewing the second one, the first one is done

Oh and welcome to the forum. Excellent group we got going on here.

welcome killick

then get a 3rd, 4th and 5th one on the go... that seems to work quite well, if you want a drink get your mrs to nip t'offy whilst you make beer


: cs

Thanks Chief, good to see the stokers at the forefront of the good ideas department :

 

[chiefstoker]

hey mr chief stoker,
i have an edme german lager to start...as your drinking yours have you any tips and how does it taste.... :

Well, I like it. Brewed as per instructions to 40 pints with brewing sugar and the ale yeast that came with the kit, I bottled mine and its reasonably fizzy. A nice strongish taste - I like it, but non-homebrewers can taste the difference between that and a filtered commercial lager, maybe a bit stella/kronenbourg tasting hard to tell.
As for tips, i may be tempted to reduce the amount of water a tad, and maybe replace 500gms of sugar for 500gms light spraymalt.

I have recently made a couple of TCs which have been in wilco co2 inject kegs, they have been really fizzy and no dramas with the pressure release valve kicking in.

I was wondering whether this was down to the youngs cider yeast i used (which some say is champagne yeast). I was wondering whether this could be used with a 'Larger!' kit to aid carbonation or whether it wouldnt work?

Over to the experts :wha:


: CS