Jim's Beer Kit

Happy to answer questions on this - I've been running a 240L nano brewery commercially for a couple of years. I've had a lot of fun doing it, won some local awards etc, run bars at community events and sold casks to local pubs, but I'm packing it in because the admin is too much for me and it doesn...

@Horatio Thanks for sharing!

Yeah, contacting the local micro brewery might be the way to go, they might want the extra income too. Has anybody heard about these brewery incubators in the states? They sound like a really great idea. Anybody out there who has a brewery with spare capacity want to start one up (and lives in South...

Thanks for the responses. I understand from my research that micro brewing (anything less than 7 BBL) is pretty much a sink of time and money. I'm thinking even smaller scale, like I do my normal homebrew, make a few larger batches, then every once in awhile sell the odd keg to the local pub or sell...

Hello, I'm investigating setting up a "commercial" micro (pico) brewery in my house in the UK to sell the odd keg of beer either to a local pub or a farmers market. I don't want to go large scale, probably less than 1 BBL operation in my spare time. I've searched this forum and others and I can't se...

Thanks, I'm Winchester based, so those numbers are probably from the same water source.

Thanks for the advice. I'm starting to think the RO route may be the way to go as well, should allow for better fine tuning given the hardness of water in Hampshire and give a more consistent result (I hope!).

Thanks, I'll check that out.

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but @paulski were you able to get the water values for Southern Water? I looked at their report and sent them an email about the missing values (which they said they couldn't supply). Here's my best guess: Ca - 120 ppm Mg - 5.5 ppm (guess from other parts of the sou...