Jim's Beer Kit

MashBag wrote:Boiling the BM is as good as anything for sterilization. Just be sure to cover elements.

Truck wash (caustic TFR) a bog brush and a stainless scrubby are the best for cleaning a BM IMO.

Love it ref the bog brush. Thinking about it, the fancy brushes are not much different

I guess it could be the tap. Is your thinking that the infection washed out during the bottling of the first batch, so was not present for the second batch? The tap on the FV and the dump valve look good, although of course visual inspections only spot dirt. The tap on my Braumeister doesn’t look pe...

Sodium percarbonate is not a steriliser it is a cleaning agent. I don't understand the bit about bottling one week apart ? Perhaps the vanilla is masking the sourness What do you use/recommend? It says it’s a steriliser, but of course not how effective it is at sterilising. https://uploads.tapatalk...

Can I confirm this back to you.. Brewed a stout, but split in to two batches. 20l in FV fermented as normal. After fermentation, bottled 10l. This first bottling soured over time. Then added vanilla to the FV to flavour the remainder. Bottled a week later. These have NOT soured. If that's the case....

I’ve brewed a couple of beers with Tonka beans now. First beer I soaked 2 beans in vodka and then grated them. 1 in the boil 1 in the FV. Didn’t really work. Second beer I soaked 4 in vodka and grated them in the FV. It was overpowering for some time. Third beer I soaked and grated 2 in to the FV, a...

I brewed a stout, but split in to two batches. 20l in FV and then fermented as normal. Decanted 10l in to bottles before adding vanilla to the FV to flavour the final 9l. Bottled the batches about 1 week apart. Original stout is now tasting sour (didn’t initially) Vanilla stout is fine I cleaned (fa...

I’m going to give it a go. I just bottled a porter today, and have a citra blonde to bottle in a few weeks, but once I have some bottles spare, I’ll be making it.


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John Luc - that’s the one I had. It’s outstanding. I don’t use that word often, but it was the best beer I’ve ever had.


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I made a Left Hand Milk Stout clone, and dosed half the batch with a tonka bean tincture I'd made using vodka. I don't have a record of how much I used, although I think I just used the same rate as the guy from Kilned Brewing, so I maybe used 7 or 8 beans in 11.5 L. The taste was pretty dominant, ...

The tonka beans add a vanilla and spice type flavour to the beer, as well as amazing aroma, which is why tonka is in some high end perfumes, and a lot of higher end dessert. I’d like to experiment with tonka, vanilla, and cocao in a porter or stout. The Lervig stout had a taste of vanilla, spice, ch...

Has anyone got experience brewing with tonka beans? I had a Lervig 3 bean stout at a beer festival in Leeds, and it was outstanding! I’m eager to try tonka beans, but no idea whether I should add them to the mash, boil, or fermentation. I understand they are toxic in large amounts. Thanks Sent from ...

Mine is from Homebase and has extendable legs as well.
Legs are locked in to place, and can hold a lot of weight




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Hope it turns out well. Big fan of citra, but some other hops would add extra dimensions. Maybe better or worse.


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BarnsleyBrewer wrote:Great thread, on my to brew list.... Thx Seymour.

You could try some of mine. I'm in mapplewell:-)


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Very nice.
I was quite surprised I could taste the dark grains. Hop flavour was decent, without too much bitterness.
I'd brew it again.


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