Jim's Beer Kit

I think you will find it is 6%, John.

there is plenty of stuff that will affect your mash pH (the water being possibly the least influential)...it is unlikely that any brewing software will accurately forecast the exact desired outcome. You have seen a consistent difference between your predicted mash pH and measured mash pH....just wor...

Brew yourself a stout...imperial even....and throw the Belgian yeast at it. Ferment at 19-20 to keep the esters in check....you might just create something wonderful.

Was going to say that I brewed a Rice Lager using Godiva for a club challenge but looks like someone has beaten me to it!! :D It was a really simple beer (75% Pilsner, 25% Flaked Rice), mashed low (64) for dryness and fermentability and all of the hops were added in the stages during the final 15 mi...

Some information updates for you... We have just opened this competition up to allow second entries at a discounted rate of £5.00. Additionally some details about some of our sponsors and the contributions they have made to the "prize pool"... Crossmyloof have provided us with 10 assorted 100g packs...

Right folks.....I guess that you are all deeply engrossed reading your feedback sheets from the LAB Open and planning improvements to your beers....where better to get your tweaked beers (or others that you might brew in the next couple of months) judged, than at the ACB Homebrew Comp in early Septe...

The third annual homebrew competition organised by the Anglian Craft Brewers is now open for entries. This years competition will be held on Saturday September 2nd and will be hosted by the Briarbank Brewing Company in Ipswich. Comp will be run to BJCP guidelines....find out more and register your e...

Fair enough...you are the head brewer as the saying goes :D I can see how aging in say Bourbon casks, like Innis and Gunn do, might help develop character...but given that you are aging in a glass (? or similar) carboy I wouldn't have thought it would deliver any character...so not sure of what 6 mo...

What is the purpose of the 6 months in the carboy? what is it that you are expecting to get from such a long secondary maturation period? Whatever you get from it will surely be partially negated by the secondary fermentation that occurs when you prime the beer for bottling? For such a dark beer I'd...

No one should brew with 100% RO water in my opinion. Although we may add back in Calcium, Magnesium, Chlorides, Sulphates etc etc there are other elements that are beneficial to yeast such as zinc, that we brewers do not routinely add back in. Cutting with tap water (council pop as my grandparents u...

I use a garden hose on a reel....have done for 8 years now. Yes I run it for 30 seconds before drawing off any water that might go in a brew but other than that don't take any specific measures other than lobbing a campden tablet in it. Our garden hoses are in very regular use so it is rare that wat...

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 ?. I missed this when originally posted but foob4r's explanation was correct. Baiscally I don't add any bittering hops until the boil has been underway for 15 minutes.......

A Danish brewery a few years back brewed a Pisner with the contents of the urinals from a local music festival... https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/04/danish-brewery-to-release-pisner-beer/ One of the lads in our homebrew club bought along a couple of bottles for us to try one evening....was a ...

I'd buy one but I'd feel compelled to then buy a milkmaids outfit and a cow.

When i experienced wort fountains on my BM20 it was when mashing with low grain bills....4.25kg and below.....after maybe three occurrences I started adding 300-400g of rice hulls to my mash and never experienced the problem again.