Following on from the gravity reading on Sunday 22nd April I took a further reading on Tuesday and Thursday, both of which gave the same result of 1011-12.
On Friday I popped down to Hauraki Home Brew again to pick up some more bottles and sodium met for sterilising but let me rewind for a second here:
I was doing some reading about hop teas and how you can steep some hops in a french press for 10 minutes then add to the fermenter, apparently the longer the better but I figured I wasn't going to bottle until Sunday so two days in the fermenter would be better than nothing. I picked up a Fuggles hop bag along with the rest of my purchases... I should have really done more research on which type of hop to get (especially since the dude at Hauraki was no help whatsoever) and then added the hop tea to the brew at the same time as I added the finings on Friday. Only time will tell whether it improves any of the character of the beer.
Bottling on Sunday went off without a hitch. This time I've stored the bottles in the garage where the temperature is a little warmer during the day (circa 20 degrees today) which will hopefully stimulate the carbonation process.
Now to decide what to make for the third beer... another kit? Something more complicated? I'll leave that discussion for another post.
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