English Ale #3, Beer #5

has just been started

Ingredients and method identical to #1 except
-I used "Styrian Golding"s Hops ( a Slovenian variant of the English hop "Fuggles"-developed in the late 19th C- so Victorian and therefore steampunk! supposedly has more earthy character and less sweetness than the older "Goldings" hop) *
-I used the (5.5L) added water(half warm, half hot) to further extract the sugars/maltiness etc from the grain bag.
-I hydrated the yeast (boil a cup of water, allow to cool to barely warm, add yeast, leave for 10-15min. Goes all creamy and a bit foamy)

Starting density 1.048
temp 25deg- a bit warm but so was my last to start. By the time the yeast wakes up it will have cooled.


*I didn't know all this when I bought it simply on the recommendation of the brew shop chap (the nice one that I first spoke to, yay). He chose it for something different to Goldings that was nice and fresh, unlike their stock of Fuggles proper (great name eh?). BUT one can learn many things by googling.

The Shoe Files #48 now finished.

I have managed to clear all that fabric off my cutting table. The room is not perfect but it's neat enough to go back to being craftily productive- YAY.

                                    



So to celebrate, I put the finishing touches to my revamped(literally) espadrille mules. I thought those plain white fronts were a bit too dull and stark.