Black Beer
Recently the weather has taken a turn for the worse, although to be fair it never really got going over summer with lots of grey days. This has got me thinking forward to the winter months when having a big black beer in the fridge is never a bad thing. Time for a new brew, so off to the brew shop for a few supplies. I didn’t really know what I was after but came away with a couple of cans:
Hopefully this combo isn’t too bitter, I hope the extra malt extract adds something to the body of the beer and leaves the bitterness up to the hops from the Stout. Since I have some hops in the freezer I decided to try a hint of dry hopping too by adding 40g of Motueka hops. I know this goes against the normal thinking of black beers, but that is the beauty of homebrew, I get to make the rules.
This brew has been in the drum for about a week now starting out with an SG of 1036. It is now down to about 1010 and the bubbling has almost stopped, so I expect it will have an FG of around 1006 when ready for bottling. This should give an alcohol content of about 4.0% once the priming sugar is added.