Thursday and it was time to put my latest brew, McMullen Country Best Bitter (you know the one that the goblins tried to sabotage), into a pressure barrel. After sterilising the barrel I put 45 grams of dried malt extract and 30 grams of caster sugar into the bottom. I than ran off the brew from the fermenting vessel directly into the barrel. The operation went quite smoothly and there were no signs of those pesky goblins. I took a final gravity reading and was surprised to see that it was at 1.008. This gives an ABV of about 4.7% not a bad strength and about .5% higher than it should be.
The next brew day should be Monday 31 Jan 11. This time I will attempt a clone of Brakspear Special which should come out at about 4.9% ABV if I can get the Original Gravity right and there are no ruddy goblins about to scupper it.
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