Type: Modified Kit Brew
Sugars: 1 Coopers Australian Pale Ale, 1 Kg Extra Light Dried Malt Extract, 500g Lidl Clear Honey, 100g Crystal Malt (steeped in DME)
Yeast: Coopers Kit Yeast
Hops: 25g Saaz for 10 min boil + 20 Min Steep, 50g Challenger, 5 min boil plus 20 mins steep
Additions: Water de-chlorinated with 1/2 Campden tablet.
Time in Primary: Erm... 2 weeks?
Secondary method: King Keg
Time in Secondary: 4 - 5 weeks
O.G. 1050
F.G. Erm......
OK, so this is a story of two things. The first, as you can see from the specifications above, is a lesson in decent record keeping. Not only did I forget to record the final gravity, but I forgot to record the date that it went into the King Keg, so I'll have a guess at both, around 1014 for the F.G., and 2 weeks in the FV. My bad.
The second lesson is that the honey was lobed in with the hops, as I was concerned that it may contain wild yeasts (that I wanted to kill). I have since read up and discovered two things ~ most commercial honey is pasteurised, thus no wild yeasts, and boiling destroys much pf the honey aroma and taste.
To be honest, this was no better that the modified Coopers Canadian Blonde below, and had hardly any noticeable honey notes to it. Not one I'll do again, I'm afraid, at least not without some modifications first.
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