{"id":966,"date":"2011-11-08T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=966"},"modified":"2011-11-08T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:42:00","slug":"bitter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"Bitter #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

My adventures in home brew continue! After two very successful batches of Woodfordes Wherry and Great Eastern, I thought I should maybe branch out and try something a bit different. This is a batch of “Geordie Bitter” wort, made up with a bag of BKE (“Beer Kit Enhancer” – a mixture of malt and dextrose) instead of regular sugar. <\/p>\n

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Despite the colder weather, the fermentation went way faster than with the Woodfords kits (which tended to be a bit slow\/sticky), leaving a final abv of around 4.2%. Smelled delicious when it went into the barrel… (a bit like toffee apples, which seemed strangely appropriate for the time of year). Now I just have to let it mature for a few weeks…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My adventures in home brew continue! After two very successful batches of Woodfordes Wherry and Great Eastern, I thought I should maybe branch out and try something a bit different. This is a batch of “Geordie Bitter” wort, made up … Continue reading →<\/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":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homebrew","tumblog-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}