Bottled : Boddingtons Mild (clone)

Ten days in the primary the Boddingtons Mild clone is now all packaged up.

Filled my 5 litre mini keg again primed with 11g of sugar (10 pints) and got 36 500ml bottles which were primed with a 1/2 tsp of sugar (3g), so all in all 46 pints of Mild Ale all packaged up.

This will be left now for at least three weeks to condition.





With the fermentation fridge, BIABacus Spreadsheet, and my new 40 ltr Boiler, it all went very well, the only thing that I ended up doing is making too much beer, but hey when is that ever a bad thing.

All my bottles are all filled up again, I still have a pressure barrel empty, so soon it will be time to try it all again, this time a IPA or something that I will use the 1 kilo of Weyermann®Abbey Malt® in.

Bottled : Well in 2 small Kegs : Chinook APA (BIAB+No-Chill)

Well fermentation has come to a halt for the Chinook APA, it's been steady now at 1018, a quite high Final Specific Gravity but the beer still comes in at 3.3% ABV. So a nice light Summer Ale, the sample from the trial jar when I took the SG reading was very nice, little sweet due to the remaining unfermented sugars but still VERY drinkable.

Due to it's lower ABV, I decided to put this beer into my recycled Old Speckled Hen mini kegs, of which I now have two. I didn't bother with the Dry Hopping as the beer was fine as it was.

After a good clean out with warm water, then StarSan, they both got primed with 11g of sugar before filling them up from the fermentor to about 2cms from the top.



Kept the priming sugar level low so I don't buckle the kegs, and after a couple of hours I vented a small amount of gas out of each keg to make sure I had just a Co2 blanket. I'll try and leave these to condition for 3 weeks before cracking into one of these kegs.

Both these little Kegs hold 10 pints and I managed to fill both right up.

So even with the mess up during brewing it still looks like I have a good 18-20 pints of beer ready for the Summer BBQ season.