Jim's Beer Kit

I plan on bottling tomorrow. I've got used glass bottles from shop purchased beer. I rinsed each bottle straight after drinking the beer with water and they look visibly clean. Is starsan enough or do I need a dose of vmp and a brush first? I'm keen that beer doesn't taste of vmp also... I would de...

mine is 1995 and has the Nussdorf but I can't see the Zum Uerige in it In mine the Nussdorf is on page 91 and the Zum Uerige is on page 101. Ah it is there it’s just in the index one Alt bier slips to the following page so it’s easy to overlook! What a relief, starting to worry I have the wrong edi...

A word of caution, the most recently published CAMRA book which is apparently by Andy Parker and Graham Wheeler is nowhere near as useful as the above two predecessors. Its focus is on more “modern” British beers. The font is small on coloured paper, which at least for me, makes it much more difficu...

I was just looking for a brewing book to help me delve into British brews, after spending the last year working on my Hefeweis recipe, and stumbled across this thread. Which of the GW books would all of you recommend as I am wanting to start with milds and the more malty brews? This seemed like a g...

I have found putting the ISBN number into this site extremely helpful over the last few years, often gives the best deal either here or in the States. Tempting fate, but never yet been charged import on books from the States.
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Agreed, cheapest Used copy I could find to order in the UK over the last few days was over £20, including delivery.
A copy is slowly winding its way to me from Chicago, for £10.11 with the dollar conversion, more than half of that is Post and packing! From Abebooks if anyone is interested.

My two favourites so far are Hopback summer lightning and yet another vote for Sarah Hughes dark ruby mild. Only brewing for a year now, I have repeated batches of both of the above, different styles but friends and I have enjoyed both enormously. I currently only use dried yeast and have found eith...

Billington's Golden Granulated sugar it is then, easy to get in mainstream supermarkets and a track record sounds ideal. Tried jaggery in Sri Lanka and may hunt that down too, our local large Sainsbury's don't have it, but the Asian supermarkets here probably will. Thanks again.

Fantastic clear explanation from McMullan, many thanks.

Any follow-on suggestions for which of the many varieties of derivatives of cane sugar available in the UK to attempt similarities with light and dark Candi sugar would also be most welcome.

Yes, but they cover a massive region! The water will vary in composition. They did provide a reasonably helpful water composition report as well, via email request.

I used 500g of Candi sugar in my most recent Belgian Abbey brew.The only difference i noticed compared to what i always used up until this point was the FG reading was where it should be at 1.010 as opposed to my best of 1.014.I`m certainly using it in my next Abbey brew instead of soft dark brown ...

Impressions from various places, suggest the Belgians use what is available and cheap for them and easy to incorporate in their brewing processes?? So whatever you choose to use won't necessarily be wrong. And, as traditional brewers, home brewers can choose whatever they like :D I'll be using inve...

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