I boiled up 5 gal. Here's what I did. Please critique so I may get better at making better beer.
1 1/2 gal water on stove until boil. Added 1 lb of corn sugar and 1 lb of dry spray malt. Then added the 3.75 lbs of Cooper's Real Ale to the pot. Stirred constantly so LME wouldn't burn on the bottom. Brought to a full boil for 30 minutes. Added 1 oz of cascade hop pellets 10 minutes before flameout.
Put three gal of col water in fermenting bucket and poured in wort using a strainer.
Put bucket in sink and filled sink with cold water and brought temp down to 70 degrees.
Yeast - I put a 1/2 tsp corn sugar in cup and added approx 1/2 cup warm water (105 degrees). Dumped in dried yeast and let sit for approx 3 minutes, then pitched to inoculate wort. Stuck the lid on with an airlock. Wrapped up with an old sweat shirt to keep the UV from ruining the mix.
Will now wait till FG then plan on transferring to glass carboy. Will then wait two weeks and bottle using 5 conditioning tabs per bottle and cap.
Please let me know what you think. I've been making wine for approx 12 years and this beer making is a whole lot different.
Hutch
1 1/2 gal water on stove until boil. Added 1 lb of corn sugar and 1 lb of dry spray malt. Then added the 3.75 lbs of Cooper's Real Ale to the pot. Stirred constantly so LME wouldn't burn on the bottom. Brought to a full boil for 30 minutes. Added 1 oz of cascade hop pellets 10 minutes before flameout.
Put three gal of col water in fermenting bucket and poured in wort using a strainer.
Put bucket in sink and filled sink with cold water and brought temp down to 70 degrees.
Yeast - I put a 1/2 tsp corn sugar in cup and added approx 1/2 cup warm water (105 degrees). Dumped in dried yeast and let sit for approx 3 minutes, then pitched to inoculate wort. Stuck the lid on with an airlock. Wrapped up with an old sweat shirt to keep the UV from ruining the mix.
Will now wait till FG then plan on transferring to glass carboy. Will then wait two weeks and bottle using 5 conditioning tabs per bottle and cap.
Please let me know what you think. I've been making wine for approx 12 years and this beer making is a whole lot different.
Hutch