Last night I rescued the fermenter out from the closet to take the first hydrometer test to see if it is ready to be bottled.
I poured some beer from the tap - as you can see from the photo it looks quite yellowy brown and smells like warm beer (funny that). Incidentally the digital thermometer on the side of the fermenter was reading in the 18-20 degree range which is a couple of degrees cooler than last week.
The next step was to dunk the hydrometer into the beer and check the reading:
According to the instructions from Hauraki the reading should be somewhere between 1000 (the bottom line of the blue section) and 1005 (the bottom of the orange section).
More importantly, you have to wait for 48 hours to re-test the beer. If the reading changes then you wait another 48 hours.... and repeat until you get two readings the same.
I expect that there will probably be a change in the reading when I retest on Wednesday but I'm not far off.
The most encouraging news is that after testing it I took a swig of the homebrew and it tastes like beer... proper beer! I couldn't convince Kelly to taste it but she did agree that it definitely smelled like beer. This means that so far so good!
I poured some beer from the tap - as you can see from the photo it looks quite yellowy brown and smells like warm beer (funny that). Incidentally the digital thermometer on the side of the fermenter was reading in the 18-20 degree range which is a couple of degrees cooler than last week.
The next step was to dunk the hydrometer into the beer and check the reading:
According to the instructions from Hauraki the reading should be somewhere between 1000 (the bottom line of the blue section) and 1005 (the bottom of the orange section).
More importantly, you have to wait for 48 hours to re-test the beer. If the reading changes then you wait another 48 hours.... and repeat until you get two readings the same.
I expect that there will probably be a change in the reading when I retest on Wednesday but I'm not far off.
The most encouraging news is that after testing it I took a swig of the homebrew and it tastes like beer... proper beer! I couldn't convince Kelly to taste it but she did agree that it definitely smelled like beer. This means that so far so good!
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