I think my Winter Flowers brew was probably ready to bottle on Friday, when the gravity reading had already reached its sticking point of 1.006, but I had a busy weekend and didn’t manage to find a suitable portion of time. Rather than leave it until the coming weekend and risk some infection creeping in, I took the afternoon off work yesterday and did the business, producing 12 bottles (6l total) of beer.

Based on the taste of the fairly generous but not quite enough to make it worth capping off, I think it won’t be too long before this one is ready to start enjoying and so I’d better make a start on (a) labels and (b) figuring out what the next batch will be.