Beer and chicken
Ok, the chicken went well. Brining really enhanced the flavour, and I butterflied it to make it roast faster (45 minutes, versus 1.5 hours), the meat was awesome and extremely moist.
Bottled the beer today, so now I'm really hoping not to hear popping sounds in the middle of the night. I added the priming sugar, which will get the yeast to carbonate the now totally flat beer. I will hear popping sounds if I a) added too much sugar, meaning the yeast will create too much CO2, bursting the bottle or b) the beer wasn't fermented enough, which means there's residual sugar which again comes back to the problem of too much CO2. It should be ready for Xmas.
Bottled the beer today, so now I'm really hoping not to hear popping sounds in the middle of the night. I added the priming sugar, which will get the yeast to carbonate the now totally flat beer. I will hear popping sounds if I a) added too much sugar, meaning the yeast will create too much CO2, bursting the bottle or b) the beer wasn't fermented enough, which means there's residual sugar which again comes back to the problem of too much CO2. It should be ready for Xmas.