Jim's Beer Kit

Alex welcome to the forum, can be a very useful source of information. For your information (FYI) translation for WalesAles last comment BLM I believe to be "Bloody lovely man", see your learning stuff already, my wisdom is "the more you drink the better you feel" (tmydtbyf) there probably a town i...

@LeeH - your alkalinity looks pretty high to me; you're going to need some kind of treatment to get it down.

Welcome Alex!

Hope your brews turn out OK.

Welcome back BitterTed!

Welcome back!

May your return brew taste beautiful.

Brewser wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 12, 2018 12:18 pm

............@Jim, are you aware of the necessary diameter of beer hose required to dispense at 6-7psi?........

I think mine is 1/2".

Hi Brewser and welcome to the forum!

I have a feeling that S30 safety valves are set somewhere in the region of 10psi so you might have a problem there. However, 6 or 7 psi is quite high enough for serving imo.

Starsan spreadsheet also added to the Calculators now.

I have a lot of experience with EWL 1/4 pint handpulls with cooling jackets . If connected to cooler no need to waste any beer ... even after a few days in cylinder ! I only flush on every barrel change .... years of doing it ... no problem ! ( BTW I use cornys with check valve and absolute minimum...

Thanks Orlando! That link is fixed now, and I reckon that's the latest version, as it's got the same filename as the original - PBW_UKv3.xls.

To save people having to search for the thread to find the link, I've added it to the 'Calculators' page on JBK - https://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/extras.htm .

I have version 3 if it is the latest, can't see why not and would do the job. Let me know if you have no joy. That would do for a start. If I get a newer one from John I'll replace it. Can you email it to me please? Sure, but your contact is through the Forum only and that won't let me do that. Can...

Apologies. I didn't check the thread. I just tried uploading the .xls file but it was returned as an invalid file extension. :shock: Hopefully Jim sees this and can advise. Looks like John had that file on his own server, and it's no longer there. I don't have the file, so I can't fix the link; how...

Apologies. I didn't check the thread. I just tried uploading the .xls file but it was returned as an invalid file extension. :shock: Hopefully Jim sees this and can advise. Looks like John had that file on his own server, and it's no longer there. I don't have the file, so I can't fix the link; how...

Great set of photos there!

Fingers crossed the brew turns out well.

I think I should dip my toe in the water so to speak and get an analysis done, sounds reasonable I guess my next questions would be how do you deal with the report, where do you go for best info to treat it .......... Aleman wrote a very good and much more accessible guide, which I can't now find f...