Jim's Beer Kit

Thanks all, some great ideas but in these uncertain times I've decided to put these plans on hold and not spending any money unnecessarily. So i'll brew with a lager yeast soon and see how that goes.

I separated from my wife last year and have moved in with a new partner but alas the house is small and there isn't the space indoors to ferment. Weather permitting I can brew outside but fermentation would have to take place in a metal shed away from the house without a power supply and running pow...

A stir and upping the temperature has done the trick when I have ha a stuck ferment. And if I don't like where something has finished I generally chuck in some harvested belgian yeast which chews it down to 1.008 almost without fail,

It had its first brewday usage today. I set it to come on at 6:45 and bring the water to 78.5°C at 7:30 when I got up the mash water was at strike. It reads around half a degree high and over shoots due to a little lag in registering the increased temperature from heating. I checked the temperature ...

The probe was about level with it.

Very open to suggestions, my assumption is because the lag is there in all temperature changes, such as adjusting from room temperature to cold water. The thermopen and another thermometer are much quicker. I wonder if a different NTC probe would be faster?

I tied it to a spoon as the curly wire was trying to lift itself out of the water. It was not awfully close to the element but its at the bottom of the HLT, it is the lag in registering which allows the over shooting as while its still registering the change its still heating, its not too bad though.

Well it appears to work, in a fashion. The initially I thought it would fit a patress box but it won't, instead I fitted it into a 95mm X 95mm junction box by drilling a circle out of the lid and securing in place with screws. in the end it looks like this https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TpfKMBwT...

FWIW I've found it (the one from the OP) a few quid cheaper and ordered one. Will see how it works, to control my HLT, if at all.

The kit goes up to 285ppm by the looks of it so I would get some distilled water and mix it 50:50 with your tap water, re-test and double your result.

Any update on how this beer turned out, as being from Somerset I fancy trying this yeast.

yep eblag seemed the easiest

Ordered 6 more mwahahaha

My dad, a Yorkshireman, would have been proud rest his soul.

Looking forward to brewing a stout and having a creamy head on it.

Mods, might it be a good idea to delete the whole thread rather than just the OP (that I reported) which had the spam link in it?

RO water is typically >95% pure. The membrane that filters the water will only let some of the very smallest particles through so I would have been surprised if it hadn't had 0 Alkalinity.