Jim's Beer Kit

Hello Barley Water. My Twelfth Night was started at 1.088, racked at 1.022 and a month later was still at 1.022. alcohol almost 9% ABV , and then bottled with a little priming glucose. After reading your post and In the interests of safety, I have just cracked a bottle and its lovely. SG still 1.022...

Hello TC2642 Is the book you mentioned by The Durden Park Beer Circle ? If so, before you pick another brew from their book , you might like to have a look at another of my posts concerning the addition of enzymes for some of their recipes. Have a look for "Durden Park Enzymes" in my posts. The repl...

Does anyone know if bottled Fuller's London Porter is a suitable candidate for yeast harvesting ?
Also Fuller's London Pride.
Cheers.

No problem barney.
I think I would also be a bit worried, after buying a full sack of brown malt and reading this.
Hopefully one of the Durden Park members will show their hand.
Cheers all.

Thank you to all for the swift responses to my problem. Here are two representative Durden Park recipes for Porter as asked for. Full acknowledgement to the Durden Park Circle. Both "Will need added brewing enzyme to mash fully." as the text says. 1 1/2 lb pale malt, 1 lb 1oz ambermalt, 1 lb 1 oz br...

Just read the Book " Old British Beers and How to Make Them " 3rd edtn. By Dr. John Harrison and Members of the Durden Park Beer Circle. Interested in the Porters from the eighteen hundreds. The mashes are mainly pale malt, amber malt , brown malt and fuggles, sometimes black malt as well. The thing...

I tried a fan in the garage just like jmc , did not have much success though. Passersby were curious though. With smelly steam coming out of the garage doors. All of my boiling is now done in a small polythene greenhouse in the back garden The sort that has a bundle of metal tubes and plastic corner...

Thanks for the information Anthony.
The mild is on the go and it will be a toss up between Dark Lantern next or Fullers London Porter.
I will deffo be having a go at Dark Lantern soon.
Thanks again and Cheers all.

Hello again to macdonald_ajr Before I have a go at Dark Lantern I need to get some mild brewed pretty quickly. As I mash and boil in the green house I am a bit out of routine ( and beer) due to the snow and cold weather. My standby quick-brew is Jennings Dark Mild from Brew Your Own British Real Ale...

Twelfth Night at Toad Hall, finally bottled. O.G. 1.088 Final Gravity 1.022. Nearly 9% ABV. ( according to the sums) 40-something 275 ml bottles and 5 one pint bottles , racked and bulk primed with brewing sugar (at least that is what the label says it is) plus a little sediment carried over to make...

I have just re read my original post. It now sounds to me like a letter to gardeners question time on Radio Four, it just needs a "does the panel think" in there . I must get out more often. Many thanks to all of you that contributed. Some sound advice in there. Particularly interesting are killers ...

Hello Dave.
I think you are right.
Now I am the one hiding behind the parapet !
Cheers.

My sack of Fawcett Maris Otter finally ran out, and I am now the proud owner of two sacks of Crisp Maris Otter. Got them from The Malt Miller. Get your order in before 14:00 and between him and the carrier they will try to get your order to you the next working day. And they did ! Well done. I canno...

Hello fisherman Many thanks for the information. I think I will have to treat both as similar and try making a brew. See what happens. I wonder if I have set a real puzzler for the guys who know all there is to know about liqour and mashing chemistry. They seem to be keeping their heads below the pa...

Many Thanks to you all for educating me. I wish I had the space to fit in a mega set up like you chaps have. My humble mash tun set up is a 15 litre lidded bucket, suspended in an electrim boiler. Once the mash has finished, the mash gets tipped out into a grain bag stretched over the fermenter , th...