The inside of the brew bucket looked like something off an oil tanker when I took the lid off
Then I noticed a tiny fly in the air lock and was worried about contamination. Decided to make sure I put a quarter campden tablet in the sterilized water in the airlock in future, as I do with wine
We use a straw as a mouthpiece on the siphon tube to reduce contamination; as soon as the beer is flowing down, the straw is pulled off and the valve end of the tube pushed through the neck of the glass demijohn.
The beer taste pretty good really, bit raw of course yet, but rich roasted chocolate flavour.
The airlock was topped up with cool kettle water and a piece of campden tablet dropped in.
The the demijohn put in a cool place to age for a couple of weeks. I'll top it up with cooled boiled water tomorrow as the level is a bit low, after I've added the port soaked oak chips of course! Checked the SG - by the time it's topped up the ABV will be around 7.8%
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