Well we’re on day 3 of the homebrew now, and I’m happy to say it is coming along nicely.

On the evening of day 1, I did notice a small problem, I went and checked the airing cupboard where I am fermenting this beer, and it had basically started to froth over teh top.  The airlock and demijohn and not to forget the shelves below and floor were covered in froth.

Action was needed.

After cleaning up the mess I decided that I needed to put the demijohn inside something, and I opted for my builders bucket.

Luckily this fitted on the shelf nicely where it was before so no major disruption.

I checked again the following morning and the cap off the airlock had dissapeared and there was some spray on the wall next to the bottle, but nothing serious.

The bubbles are raid and the airlock is working overtime, and everytime I look I have a sense that there is now more alchohol in there than last time.

It does appear to be very slightly clearing as well, and the color has lightened from a muddy brown to a golden / muddy brown.

I expect over the next few days, to see a slow down in the bubbling process and start to get close to the end of fermentation, I will take my first SG reading then to see how close we are.  I am aiming for a reading of 1.006.  The start reading was 1.035, so this should give a alchohol content of around 2.8% I think.

More updates soon.