Well, due to the excitement of my first brew going so well, I have decided to start a new one.

This time I changed the way I used the ingredients.

First of all, I boiled the hops off in 3 different stages.  Half of it in from the start, then after 30 minutes I added half of what was left.  Then 5 mins before the end of boil I added the remainder.

I also added a small amount of strawberry essence while it was boiling and a cup of tea (minus milk and sugar) as I’ve heard this is good for it.

After this instead of adding the Malt extract to fresh hot water, I added it to the Hop Water after hops had been removed, then topped up with cold filtered water.

Im also experimenting with some Super Wine yeast, as I had no beer/lager yeast available.

Well it’s fermenting away nicely now so in about 10 days should be ready for bottling.  Hope it turns out ok.