Back into brewing

I've eventually got back into homebrewing after a bit of a disaster at the turn of the year.

My batch of Brewferm Abbey had a stuck fermentation and despite miving it to a warmer room, wrapping it in a pretty pink dressing gown and pitching more yeast it wouldn't budge, so I binned it and kind of lost heart.

However, I decided to give it another go a couple of weeks ago, so I went to my local homebrew shop and bought a Brewferm Diabolo kit and some other bits and bob as well as 8lb of strawberries from a local farm shop.

Two Saturdays ago (28th) I started the process of turning the Strawberries into wine (more detail in a future posting) and started my Brewferm kit.

This time I used a smaller fermenter and put it in the cupboard next to the hot water tank - after 10 days my FG was 1.010 so I spent Tuesday night bottling up my beer. The Brewferm instructions suggest leaving the beer for 8 weeks to mature from bottling, which means 2nd October is the big day of tasting!