It's winter here so I put the fermenter in the bathroom which has heat lamps in the ceiling, I thought it would keep the tempurature constant at around
27C. Not so. After I got the tempurature up I cast the yeast, it only bubbled for about 36 hours at 23C I thought that's very odd because summer batches seem to bubble for days so anyway I left it until I got to the shop to buy some more yeast. Last night I thought I'll test it anyway, it had been sitting there for weeks. It is uninfected and unbottled, SG was 1004 and it seems to be okay to bottle. had a glass out of it, nothing wrong with it. Certainly nothing wrong with it taste wise, though it's flat as a tack, but I can drink English beer so I can drink anything ;-D I drank say 4 or five glasses and I have my own breath testing unit, didn't feel tipsy but registered 0.09. Strange. Should I recast some yeast and add more dex before bottling ?- posted
19 years ago