Old Conkerwood Black Ale

This is the first of the two premium kits I bought on sale at CAD$5 when they were originally priced for CAD$29.95! I have been satisfied with my Festa Brew Lager so I am betting those premium kits are a lot better than those standard kits that range from CAD$7 - CAD$15.

The reason they were on sale were because they passed their expiry date by 2 or 3 years, but knowing sugar does not go bad unless it is exposed to oxygen things should be fine.

Ingredients:

• Hopped Malt Extract
  
• 3.5 litres tap water (boiled)
  
• Yeast
  
• Topped with bottled water to make approximately 23 litres
  

The Brewing Process (07.05.11):

• Let cans of malt extract stand in hot water to soften up malt extract.
• Rehydrated yeast in 1/2 gallon water.
  
• Boiled 3.5 litres tap water.
• Poured water and malt extract in fermentation pail and topped with cold spring water to make 23 litres.
• Used heat strap to maintain 75ºF - 80ºF temperature range.
• O.G. 1.044 (5.5%)

Observation (07.05.15):

• Fermentation process seems completed, ready to bottle any time.