Jim's Beer Kit

Except for the new craft beer breweries they seem to usually avoid dry hopping their lagers but it does seem to work well sometimes. For me there's no point in spending the time and energy lagering a beer so it's smooth and clean flavoured and then dry hopping it. I know what you mean but it can be...

Thanks, an interesting experiment and pretty quick to make. Very tempted to try this for the summer.

How was the original batch, did you make any tasting notes?

Tape the Inbird Sensor to the fv with bubble wrap covering it. The vial of steriliser will have a different thermal mass to your full fv.

Also, in terms of using hand pump, you will find lots of info on here if you do a search for “beer engine”.

If you can find a local home brewer that would be willing to host you for a new day then that is a great way to get a feel for things and lets you try it without buying any hardware. It can be a lot of fun to be with others

An interesting post Scott Janish on why dry hopping cooler and with shorter contact times may be beneficial in a few ways. Very interesting read with sufficient evidence to warrant giving it a go. That’s what I figure too. Also the more I read about pellets and flower hops, from both studies and br...

I’m blaming Digby and Hanglow and this thread for jumping in the car this morning and grabbing a load of Franconian (and other) beer this morning. I think I may have well got the last 4 bottles of the Spezial seasonal smoked bock in the country until next October as it’s definitely sold out at the a...

An interesting post Scott Janish on why dry hopping cooler and with shorter contact times may be beneficial in a few ways. Thanks for posting that. I've read quite a few of his posts and have always learned more from the science than the usual opinion pieces that blight debate in home brewing. Ther...

I was trying to resist but can I take one please? Preferably a silver chrome one to match my other.

I just saw you can get flights from London for less than £25!

I’d not (shockingly) actually heard of Annafest but Franconia is on my must visit list, there is a bar in Berlin that actually gets casks from there regularly but that does look amazing with everything just stuck in the forest and with a big variety of local beers. I’m planning on going to Bamberg i...

An interesting post Scott Janish on why dry hopping cooler and with shorter contact times may be beneficial in a few ways. Good post. I recently had to bottle a schwartz bier about 40 hours after dry hopping with saaz at 46f (8c). Were you happy with the results? I get to drink quite a lot of schwa...

An interesting post Scott Janish on why dry hopping cooler and with shorter contact times may be beneficial in a few ways.

Thanks so much everyone! I'll give the 3/8 a go, it's for the CIP so doesn't need to be perfect. Incidentally, mine is a fixed head I've been using it on the fernentasaurus via a 3D printed disk, worked a treat using a submersible pump in a builders bucket [emoji106] Sent from my SM-G950F using Tap...