Tested this one this morning. About 11 days

OG. 1.067
SG. 1.020

Smells great. A huge amount of fizz in this one. When I poured the sample there was a lot of carbonation in the sample. After sitting about 1 hour I could see the guage through the foam. Still some time to go.

I've been thinking on this one when I brewed it. I scored a 1Kg/2lbs of dry LME for this one where as the #12 I used 1.25kg brew booster mix which was mostly dextrose maltodex mix. I think usually it is about 75/25%. When I bought this I was buying two kits for #12 & #14. The store charged me 2 x the brew booster and 0 x the dry LME thinking they were both the same by appearance.

The dry LME was supposed to be 1kg. Now I am thinking on it, I suspect the LHBS has made a mistake when packing the dry LME. I think they put in 1.25kgs and not the 1kgs. I remember having the bag of brew booster and the dry LME next to each other and thinking briefly or noticing in passing that the bags were the same size and height of contents. I did not click at the time but now I am thinking that the dry LME was 250gms more than expected. That would explain the OG reading being so high.

I think once you start getting above 6% ABV you are going to get some alcohol flavours in the beer. Definately when you get upto 9% you do. Been there before with a Duvel which was about 9% ABV. Messy beer that one.

Anyway I am going to have to start weighing the dry sugars/malt extracts to confirm what I am putting in the beer.