Jim's Beer Kit

Thanks McMullan,

Pitched this morning and now fermenting.

Hi, My Wyeast 1099 smack pack was 3 months old so it took longer than usual to swell (about 10 hours). I pitched it into my starter and after 24 hours there's about 10 mm of krausen and is actively fermenting, but no yeast deposit. My question, is it ok to leave it for another 24 hours before pitchi...

Thanks Eric, looked at Brewlabs slants a few years back, if my memory serves me right there was quite a lot of building up before you could pitch. Looking at there site now it looks as if the yeasts already cultured, therefore no more preparation than WYeast or W.Labs and considerable less mileage t...

Hi, Looking for a Wyeast or Whitelabs yeast for my next brew, so comments from experience using an English ale yeast would be much appreciated. WY1968, WLP013 and WLP023 are the ones I've used. WLP023 I liked, but I hadn't realised it needed so much head space, unfortunately my blow-off tube kept ge...

Thanks Jocky, Sound advice, think my options are, follow my usual procedure (no racking to secondary) but leave the fermenter top just covered with sanitised foil and clean up if necessary. Other option ferment in the bucket but with the lid loose and careful when racking to secondary (as little spl...

Hello All, I've followed the same procedure for my 50+ brews, which is as follows. 24 litres of wort into my screw top fermenting bin, add yeast and ferment, four weeks later rack into bottling bucket and bottle with little bottler. If I'm using a liquid yeast I'll harvest the slurry from the fermen...