Beer & Me

Cleaning the basement the other day I found an old partial grain Irish Stout homebrew kit from Northern Brewer that, if memory serves, I’d bought 14 months or so ago and completely forgotten about! So for giggles and grins I smacked the pack and to my mild surprise it was completely inflated within about four days so I went ahead and brewed. Everything seemed to go ok. Even the hops pellets impossibly seemed alright.

But now, three days later fermentation hasn’t begun. This morning I dumped about a teaspoon of yeast nutrient in but if it doesn’t get going by this evening I’m going to add baker’s yeast. I know “they” say that you’re not supposed to do that but I’ve always wanted to try and as I have no other yeast in the house right now I figure why not?

I’ll report back here with the results.

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