Jim's Beer Kit

I get the impression "Burton Ale", "Scottish strong ale" (e.g. Edinburgh Ales) and "Belgium strong ales" (e.g. Belgium Abbey ales) all are cut from the same cloth? Would explain why nearly all my favourite beer types come under those headings. I dug this out and found it well interesting. Okay, it'...

… Not all Belgian yeasts came from Scotland, but specifically Duvel uses a strain (formerly two) that originated in a bottle from Mcewans , harvested by the great brewing scientist Jean De Clerck between the wars. … Further to my suggestion that Belgium yeasts came from Scotland: I dug this up from...

the source I was reading about "Wee Heavy" (I should keep notes of sources, but it would have been a European author) was suggesting 19th century "Wee Heavy". Wee Heavy is one of those beers that huge amounts of nonsense gets written about, particularly by authors overseas. In Scotland it historica...

Yeast for Belgian ale types might go down well? S-33 is supposed to be a good choice for such ales though isn't actually a Belgium yeast (I don't think?). I've seen it said that Belgium ale yeasts derived from bottles of Scottish "Wee Heavy". But some sources say Belgium ale yeasts are high attenua...

I'd imagine there's a bit of dry hopping in there as well.

This is where I got the idea about using the Polypins (the bags) Heh - confusion in language. To my mind a polypin is a plastic pin barrel - I guess what most homebrewers would think of as a 4.5 (imperial) gallon pressure barrel. I'd not come across people referring to bag-in-boxes as polypins, alt...

Standard advice for typical bitter vented to the air in a pub situation in 9g (41 litres) casks would be 3 days shelflife ideally, usually OK for 5 days, you might get away with an extra day or two for big/dark beers but it's not ideal. And then do a full clean with linecleaner and two flushes of wa...

I read all that that on the website "Pale Ale Malt 1) Goldings Galaxy 2) Galaxy 3) Citra". God knows what Goldings Galaxy is - that must be a typo!! So a simple pale ale 1038 finished with Galaxy & Citra. Easy! The reason for my post was, never having tried MPA, I wondered if anyone had tried a go ...

Okells tell you most of what you need to know : http://www.okells.co.uk/our-beers/permanent-cask/manx-pale-ale "3.6% ABV Ingredients Pale Ale Malt 1) Goldings Galaxy 2) Galaxy 3) Citra " So just 1.038 with pale malt, bitter with Hereford Goldings, then throw Galaxy and Citra at it. Galaxy is perhaps...

Wasn't quite sure where to put this, but Ed Wray has dug up a beer festival programme from 1990, which lists the OG of the beers but not their ABV.

So if you ever wondered what the OG of Old Growler (1.055), Brakspear Mild (1.030) or Gales HSD (1.051) were then wonder no more....

Worth mentioning that Ubbe is probably the same as Bootleg's Oslo, which has been discussed a fair bit in this HBT thread :
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/thre ... lo.664102/

My experience of M36 is that it's pretty "ordinary" - not crawling out of the fermenter like T-58, not slow like BRY-97, just "normal". At least with normal grists of 90+% pale malt. So I guess the possibilities are that something was "wrong" with the yeast - either it wasn't M36 or you have a reall...

Thanks very much for that really helpful reply Northern Brewer. Do you have any reference for future information with regards to the good keepers and bad keepers in hop types? Similarly, the rates of expected deterioration in alpha acid and flavour with the sort of variables you quote above would b...

I'm not great at keeping track of what hops I have so found a 100g pack of cascade from 2016 harvest. It's nitrogen flushed, foil packed. How likely is it to be any use? First off - use your nose. If it smells OK, it should be OK to use, if it smells "cheesy" then bin it. It's probably OK-ish to us...

JFTR, a Fullers brewer recently posted a recipe for their Imperial Porter on Twitter, from which I extrapolated a recipe for the regular porter, sort of from the horse's mouth : https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/fullers-recipes-for-esb-pride-chiswick-imperials-neipa-from-the-horses-mouth.64...