{"id":286,"date":"2013-11-11T21:07:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2013-11-11T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T21:07:08","slug":"blue-boar-brown-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/blue-boar-brown-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Boar Brown Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-282\" alt=\"500D_1838\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1838-720x1024.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1838-720x1024.jpg 720w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1838-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1838.jpg 844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My local home brew shop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayandbrett.co.uk\/\">May and Brett<\/a> make their own beer kits.\u00a0 I bought one the other day, together with <strong>500g dark<\/strong> spraymalt based on the detailed instructions above.\u00a0 The till didn&#8217;t say anything, but when I got to making the beer the instructions (on the back of the label) said I needed 1kg of the spray malt.\u00a0 It did say I could make it up with everyday sugar though &#8211; but it won&#8217;t be as dark as it might be.<\/p>\n<p>The process was exactly the same as the Christmas Ale, but this makes three times the volume (23 litres rather than 7 litres).\u00a0 I hope I (and anyone I share it with!) like it &#8211; that is 40 pints or about 46 bottles of beer.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t check the OG since this was not mentioned in the instructions &#8211; they say just wait until the bubbling stops, then check that the SG is stable.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1836.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-280\" alt=\"500D_1836\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1836-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1836-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1836-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1836.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steamy stirring<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1837.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-281\" alt=\"500D_1837\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1837-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1837-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1837-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1837.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Topping up to 23 litres<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My local home brew shop, May and Brett make their own beer kits.\u00a0 I bought one the other day, together with 500g dark spraymalt based on the detailed instructions above.\u00a0 The till didn&#8217;t say anything, but when I got to making the beer the instructions (on the back of the label) said I needed 1kg &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/blue-boar-brown-beer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blue Boar Brown Beer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blue-boar-brown-2013-11-kit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}