Jim's Beer Kit

Thanks.

Quick question 75 min mash, Magnum hops added @ 60 mins, is that 15 min boil then add the hops or boil for 60 mins then add hops ?.

Received from the malt miller today, going to brew it in the morning.

Hi, a few years ago I found a wild hop plant that turned out to be a male plant, since then I have realised that each year the leaves just grow again from the same bines, this has got me thinking if I didn't cut my hops bines off after harvest and just left them would I get a lot more hops to harves...

I used a distilling Web site calculator to calculate the sugar to water potential alcohol percentage, but that doesn't include the sugar in the fruit to start with.

The sg was 1.100, the fermenter was almost full at 24 litres with all the fruit in it, I left it fermenting for 5 days before filtering out the fruit, I would have left it till it was fermented dry to filter the fruit out but the cap of fruit was wanting to push the fermenter lid off. Anyway yesterd...

I should also add that I boiled the fruit first because I just couldn't bring myself to fermenting unsanitised fruit, did this perhaps release more juice from the fruit.

Hi, can anyone point me in the right direction with my first blackberry wine, I have followed a 1 gallon recipe x 5 so it says for 23 litres 8.75 kg of blackberries, 7.5 kg of sugar, 22.5 litres of water, i have sived all the fruit out of the wine on only added 6kg of sugar and 11.5 litres of water ...

I have this in my kegerator at the moment, it's a very impressive drink especially for the price it cost to make, goes great with all food, total respect.

Hi, I have harvested my hops, dried them for a week and now they smell of absolutely nothing ??, is this right, as they were drying they were super pungent but now nothing, the hops I buy vacuumed sealed are really smelly when I open the pack so I'm wondering were its all gone ?, hope someone can sh...

Yes, I bottled once on said never again, I've got 2 fermenting fridges so when I keg its 4 cornies worth at once so with 7 minutes of force carbing each keg then cleaning fermenting tubs it takes over 3 hours, which I hate, but like you say so much easier than bottling.

Wow, after reading the replys and googling how to make kits I didn't realise that you don't boil and don't add hops #-o , I am at the stage now where I am using beer smith 2 and brewing from the recipe's there so maybe a step backwards using kits, thanks for the info. I do find that making the beer ...

I started brewing about 18 months ago, believe it or not i have never used a beer kit, I started with full mash beer making, now I am wondering if kits are any good, are they on par with mashing your own or not ??

Turned out to be a male plant

Stainless steel Fusti are similar but a lot cheaper this is just eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/606982L-contenitore-per-olio-fusto-inox-18-10-sansone-litri-100-fusti-olive-r-/361311168757?hash=item541fd2e8f5:i:361311168757 , I did find an Italian site and could get a 100 liter Fusti delivered to uk ...