Our kit has been thoroughly cleaned, well most of it has. On Monday it was time to test it out so we used an old kit (a year past its best) with new yeast. If we manage to brew without infection or off-tastes when we’ll know that, at least, some of our kit is ok.
A full-grain brew is still a way off. We’re short of buckets and some tubing, and there’s still a fair few components which haven’t been cleaned/disinfected/sanitied/sterilised properly or at all. And we still have to clean the room itself.
The plan with the kit beer is to split it (into the non-existant buckets) and use up a fair quantity of hops doing some serious dry hopping. The kit beer itself is pretty poor so we’re hoping that a) the hops will make it drinkable and b) we improve our knowledge on hopping and hop combinations.
The set:
- Bramling Cross/BRU-1
- Citra/Simcoe/Pioneer
- First Gold/GP75
- HBC431/Motueka
- Nelson Sauvin/Styrian Wolf/Wai-iti
Let’s see what happens…