That sounds like it will be very tasty Cat! Not sure about the corriander, never used it, but it's better to add too little than too much. Birthday chocolate hey, well happy birthday!! . Cheers,
MattyV
"I feel sorry for people who don''t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that''s as good as they''re going to feel all day." - Frank Sinatra
Didn't see any effects from this brew in the first two days so I pitched another pack of Safwheat yeast on the 3rd day.
However, it's a week later and the SG has only dropped 15 points (from 1048 to 1033). Most likely this is due to the fact that the central heating in my house is broken (booo!), so the temperature is dropping quite a lot each night. I wrap a towel around the fermenter, but am not sure how much good that's doing.
Fermentation appears to still be going. No more airlock activity unfortunately, but when I opened up the lid (yes I know, bad girl) there was still some foam/head there.
I have a sleeping bag around mine... it's probably worth doing the same thing for yours. Also, homebrew shops have those little LCD sticker strips that you can stick on the outside of your fermenter so you can tell how warm it is. If you can't go get one, maybe put a thermometer inside the sleeping bag next to the fermenter. A max-min thermometer would be fun to play with, but they're pretty expensive...
My Dogger's Honey Maple is fermenting like a wild thing! I had to unwrap it last night because the fermentation was creating too much heat! The airlock was going absolutely crazy, maybe ticking over at about four times a second or so... It's down from 23 to about 21 now which is closer to where I want it (I'm trying to keep my ales between 18 and 20 degrees these days).
Yeah, both my fermenters have those temperature thingies on them (they're a tad pricer than I thought they would be!). Temperature droopped to below 16 degrees the other night, but I think the towel is helping - it was at 18 degrees this morning at 8am.
Just bought myself some nice digital scales from K-Mart's 15% off sale. Looking forward to playing with it
. Cheers,
