It’s Sunday evening and trying to do some work and send out a few emails, thought it would be a good idea to crack open a bottle of Diablo, which I bottled at the start of May, as it has been a few weeks since I last sampled it. It hasn’t yet improved my workrate but it certainly tastes better, as recommended on the beer forums the longer you leave it the better it tastes. 
Several weeks ago I started a Brewferm Framboos beer kit, this is the result. It is a decent beer despite bad reviews on Jim’s Home Brew forum. It tastes fruity and is quite strong, meant to be 5.5% but could be more. It’s not as good as the Belgium fruity beers you can buy in a supermarket but not bad for a home brew.
9 weeks ago I bottled the Brewferm Beer kit Diablo, this is the result. The head is good and the colour looks darker than the picture on the Brewferm website.
The taste is however, very good and compares to commercial strong Belgium beers such as Duval. It certainly tastes strong, at least the 8.5% it is meant to be and would definitly do the kit again.
Took a trip to Brewgenie in Hall Green, Birmingham, UK, yesterday and picked up a Cooper’s Ginger Beer and a Brewferm Triple beer kits and some nice Young’s swing top bottles.
Today I got the Ginger Beer (£10.95) up and running, it was a straight forward, going for the alcoholic version, which should be about 3.5% and make 20 litres of ginger beer. I need to decide now whether to bottle it or put in a keg.
1KG of sugar, 18 litres of water and yeast were needed for the fermentation.
Pictures of the process are here:
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