Jim's Beer Kit

From memory I used to 'seal' the cask between sessions by turning off a jg tap fitted inline between spile/cask and breather. Condition will still be lost over time as the beer isn't under pressure so as the cask empties the pressure will just equalise to atmospheric. If you use a beer engine with s...

i use the wall paper stripper to fill the casks with steam. with my small steamer and casks it works well (gets over 110C in the cask and can sustain that for 10 min no problem). just make sure you drain the casks properly. i rushed the process the other day and forgot to drain a cask and then subje...

Hey Seymour, sorry for the very long overdue reply - only just saw your post. i haven't tried long storage yet as i've been too busy using the casks for running beers, but i intend to make some old style porter and trying ageing for a year to see what happens. will let you know how it goes! regardin...

Thanks mate - really looking forward to your visit and no worries about the beer - will make another batch of this for sure

cheers

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Had another good brewday this weekend. i had a go at a recipe i'm developing - provisional title 'Ghost Empire' (Hadrian's wall, Roman Ghost type thing). so here's the recipe: 63.00 l Hexham water with 5ml AMS per 10 litres 15.00 g Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 2 - 5.00 g Cal...

Not sure what I'd use then the other end to connect my 3/8 line but would be a good solution. or as you say the Jg on off valve but would need that in the middle of the line standard 3/8-3/8 valve.this one ye? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-8-Isolating ... 0903322636 yep - just get a JG 1/2'' threaded...

mine doesn't have a pressure relief valve, but its easy to remove the gas inlet valve (a pierced piece of rubber) that lets gas flow only one way. if you put a JG 'on/off' valve on the gas line, i think you could carefully crack this open to release pressure if needed. So fill with C02 via the beer ...

hiya,

yes sorry for the overly-long ramble! hehe.. it is a really interesting topic. hoping to have a go at the 1811 later this year.

I don't know if its too late to chip in, but I found Mr Wheeler and Mr Pattinson's discussion of brown malt and methods of its production particularily interesting. About two years ago i was inspired by a recipe for 1700's 'Brown Butt Beer' in Randy Mosher's Radical brewing. Mr Mosher briefly discus...

Hi, sorry for the delay in responding, haven't been on for a while. Here is the link to the utube video which shows how to modify a keg coupler. i ended up buying a second coupler off e-bay just so i could have one for filling/emptying, and one for dispensing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDOFsKB6...

Hi sorry for the delay in my reply. i usually heat the strike liqour to around 85C on my system, aiming for around 68C once mashed in with the grist. i didn't change those temperatures for underletting, although i think given the speed with which the grist and liqour mix, i should heat the strike li...

You can buy them direct off e-bay for around £7 each: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CHALKBOARD-BEER-PUMP-CLIP-PUB-ADVERTISING-CASK-ALES-/180484630083?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a05b8e643 or you can make your own as suggested already, or using this stuff: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160994813955?ssPag...

well turned out a bit too easy to drink! got through both pins (around 41 litres) in 9 days :oops: The second pin was much better than the first in being more 'neutral' - basically no oak character at all (which is what i expect from the first pin after a few gyles have gone through it). It was very...

would assume after cleaning etc, you would / could squirt some co2 in the keg before filling the thing. Once full, then use it as a normal beer keg. yeah i think you could just flush with co2 through the gas in port, then run beer by gravity or pump into the beer out. once full, disconect and repla...

Hi I've got a plastic brewery keg (but to be honest i haven't used it yet). However one of my concerns was how i was going to clean and fill it without removing the spear. i found this on utube and made a similar keg filler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDOFsKB6xnk seems to work very well (you can...