This is my 5th brew and for the first and probably the last time I bought Coopers Canadian Blonde from the supermarket because I was too lazy to drive through a lot of Easter traffic to get to my local home brew store. After purchasing said product, I searched for some comments/recipes and most were not encouraging, however, i found one recipe that this fellow said was great and consisted of the following, which i followed.
1 can Coopers Canadian Blonde
1kg Coopers Brew enhancer #1
500gm Coopers Light Dry Malt extract
300gm honey
I used left over honey from fridge which now in hindsight may produce infection. Anyway, I mixed this horrible looking gloop together, added the yeast and took a SG reading.......Yikes 1080!!!
As a newcomer to home brewing, I have some doubts about this current brew. According to a alcohol conversion table, if the final SG is around 1010 which most of my previous brews have been this will produce approx 9.6% alcohol.
Will this kill me? Blow up all my bottles? Taste crap?
Can i add more water now (it has been fermenting for 15 hrs and bubbles every 2 sec) or should I throw it away?
Any help or comments would be most welcome
