Brew Day - BSB

Brew day once again, and this time the beer will be called BSB - Bog Standard Bitter! I wanted to see if I could quickly knock together an extract-only bitter to boost my beer stocks without too much fuss. I'm taking advantage of the fact that as we're now in mid-autumn, the temperatures in my shed have dropped to a level where I can safely brew without needing the temperature-controlled fermentation cabinet. This means that Storecupboard Larger can continue conditioning in the cabinet while BSB gets on with fermenting in the shed.

The recipe for BSB is simple:
- 2 x 1.8kg cans of Muntons Light liquid malt extract
- 25g Galena hops for bittering (just what I had in the fridge)
- 25g East Kent Goldings hops added late in the boil for aroma
- Safale S-04 ale yeast

Original gravity was measured at 1.042. Yeast was rehydrated then pitched at 23 degrees. The fermenter is wrapped in a foam blanket and in the shed where the ambient temperatures are mid-high teens centigrade.