Jim's Beer Kit

I've not on here actively for years but now i have some weekends free again i thought i would carry on with building my HERMS rig. I had forgotten how much stuff i had bought and just threw in the back of a draw, not a clue now how it all goes together now! I know i had some PT100 sensors somewhere ...

Would this do instead of a tank connector, product number 7786 from http://www.bes.co.uk/

I was going to have a brewday on Sunday but we have friends coming round now (SWMBO told me an hour and half ago)and I want to play out on my MTB tomorrow, so doing it now 45 mins left on the mash. All made up last minute with my leftovers before I order another batch of grain. Night Night Original ...

I called my brewery 'The Steam Room' after my first ever brew day i am glad she was out as the window had been open for 20 mins when i took the photo on this thread it took me ages to wipe the walls down. I think i feel a washing up bowl modification on the way.

It was only 3 months because the RAF sent me away for that amount of time with only 48 hours notice

I used Graham's water treatment calculator yesterday for the Hogsback Brewery TEA clone to calculate the amount of CRS to add. The only figure i could not find was sulphates of which anglian water recommended a guide figure of 250mg/l. It indicated not adding any salts just 43ml of CRS. My efficency...

Nice one OP is one of my favourites use to drink it all the time at Bedale round the corner from the brewery. 3 pints and out of it for the night
Hop it turns OK

Thanks for clarifying that for me aleman, seems i have now over done it by approx 6g of EK goldings then in the hogs back TEA clone,:oops: will just leave it a bit longer if its too harsh.

Cheers

Sounds good I'm a bit of a coffee nut but would swap the raisins for grape concentrate one of the 245 ml tins. The raisins just add body same as the concentrate and a lot less hassle just open a tin and pour in. Have you checked out this forum loads of stuff on it?

http://www.winesathome.co.uk

Do i calculate the amount of hops i require for the amount of wort collected at the start of boil or for the amount of wort to be collected after the boil?

Cheers for that Steve i will prime then, i like that type of beer fizzy and cold on a hot summers day. Lets hope that we are going to get a few of those hot sunny days this year.

I have made a Hefeweizen and its due to be bottled today or tomorrow, as the yeast is not filtered or fined out do i need to prime the bottles or will the suspended yeast and residual sweetness provide enough carbonation?

The yeast will kick in soon youngs yeast always seams to have a long lag time. I add 100g of sugar to my TC and regularly get between 5-8%ABV depending on yeast used i can recommend using Gervin Yeast - Varietal C or Lalvin DV10 but the Lalvin stuff is getting hard to find now.

The rousing worked it is now at 1014 and tastes better too.

cheers for the tip

I did rouse it and it is working slowly i think its not gone to well due to the age of the yeast it was close to its sell by date and Mr Malty said i should of pitched 2.5 packets. I only had 2 so maybe that's the problem. Will remember to check sell by date next time.