A Home Brew Journey

Well I finally got round to making use of my BBQ and as far as I know there was no outbreak of E-coli or food poisoning so I am happy with that. As there was plenty of folk round it was a good chance to off load my slightly disappointing last 2 brews.

The Geordie Lager was just not as good as my last brew of lager. Once you has a couple down your neck it was perfectly acceptable but there was none of the instant tastiness of the last batch. To be honest it tasted like a watered down lager. Now I don't know if it was my fault for leaving it in the fermenter to long but that should really have made that much of a difference. Or it could be that I previously used a mixture of light spray malt and sugar and that's what I think gave the dryness of the previous brew.

I may have mentioned that I used Fining's in the last to brews and to be honest I just wasted my time. Fining's are used purely for aesthetic purposes but to be honest they did not clear the beers as well as I thought they would. So I have a couple of packets left and I think that will be the last I will be using it.


So sadly I will need to do another batch  just to try and get the perfect pint. I think that a brew of alcoholic ginger beer might be in order as I had a taste of some and it was very very tasty. I have heard that it can be quite volatile when bottling so that should be fun.