Jim's Beer Kit

Charity shop find for today is a hardback edition of World's Best Beers by Ben McFarland & Tom Sandham (The Thinking Drinkers, apparently). Just having a flick through and there's some interesting brewery profiles. Looks good and certainly worth £3. One minor niggle so far is, on the glassware page,...

guypettigrew wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:01 pm

Here you go. Will do the job beautifully, Just needs a supply of hot water, either pumped or from a container higher than the arm

Guy

Cheers Guy, that looks like it'll do the job!

I ' made' (assembled?) a dip tube thing for my Burco as there was a lot of dead space if you just screw a hop stopper thing in the back of the tap. I found that helpful and was very easy to make. Sparge arm sounds tricky. I don't get much dead space with the Buffalo, and tilt it when transferring t...

Cool, glad to hear it's made a difference. I also use my boiler to heat the mash and sparge water so should be a bit easier for that too, plus I'm now thinking that I might be able to make up a sparge arm to fit as it allows a lot more control. Again, small things that make life easier that I've bee...

Cheers Dave, I'm looking forward to my next brewday to see it in action!

The emblem on the handle reads "Hay's Ale House" (sorry for rubbish pic);

I picked this up at the weekend from a local antique/salvage shop for £25. It works fine, just needs a clean and new drip tray. The cylinder is mounted horizontally, which I haven't seen before.

I have finally got round to replacing the tap on my Buffalo Boiler. I've had a new tap sat in the garage for a few years, and every brewday I sit there waiting for the wort to trickle into the fermenter thinking 'I really need to change that £$%$%^^ tap!' Then I promptly forget until the next brewda...

Fermentation should be finished tomorrow or Saturday and I was hoping to leave it for a week or so in the cool before bottling as I'm away next week. Maybe I'll rack it off into my bottling bucket before I leave instead.

Cheers

Ooh, that's not good drjim! What was the weird flavour?

I had a couple of sachets of Mangrove Jacks Kveik yeast in the fridge that I hadn't got round to using yet, so thought I'd give them a try. Day 1 Brew Day •5kg Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt (88.5%) •350g Crystal/Caramalt 175EBC (6.2%) •300g Torrified Wheat 5 EBC (5.3%) •50g First Gold @ 60 minutes (34 I...

Will do!

Think 'our Graham can help you with the recipe.... https://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15361#p183663 Nice one, Mashbag! I did search for OF before posting, but the top posts were about being an old fart, or farting about with stuff, I should have persevered! I'm due a malt order soo...

Aha! Now you could be on to something here. Having a search under Merriman's, they acquired the rights to brew Old Fart from Robinwood Brewers & Vintners, who were active between 88 - 93, so the right era. Robinson were also contracted to brew it, though this was for Merriman's so 94 onwards which i...