Usually, it's all high hope and high fives.
We started with a Northern Brewer Nut Brown kit: which would have an OG of .1040 and only fuggles as a basis. Thinking I could go one better on a proven winner, I added a pound of 40l caramel, a couple doses of Casade leaf hops, and 3 cups of honey.
Please Lord, help me to stop fermentation before everything gets out of hand. OG: 1062.
.25 lbs English Chocolate Malt
.25 lbs Belgian Special 8
.25 lbs Belgian Bisquit
.25 lbs Briess Special Roast
1 lb Briess Caramel 40l
Boil:
6 lbs Maris Otter malt syrup
1 oz American Fuggles pellets - alpha 4.2 (60 mins)
60 oz quality Kirkland honey (15 mins)
1 oz Cascade leaf - alpha 8.9 (30 and 10 mins)
Dry Nottingham yeast
Gravity after steep: 1020! Gravity after extract: 1030. Gravity after Monte added too much honey: 1062. heh.
Day 5: Transferred to the fridge. Was super worried that the fermentation was stuck - just no sound or action coming from the corney vent - but took a hydrometer reading and got .1020 ... pretty relieved by that. That seemed high, but a tastetest said that the bitter and sugar are pretty well balanced there. Let it all come together. Will rack in a few days.
Week 4: After 3 weeks of conditioning, there's pretty heavy alcohol and the hops and honey haven't met in the middle ... yet. Fingers crossed.
Week 7: Still a little green. A lot closer than last taste. Good, but not great. Yet! 3 more weeks will tell.
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