Jim's Beer Kit

barneey wrote: ↑

Wed May 13, 2020 3:53 pm

A bit more of a clean up today.

Good job

WalesAles wrote: ↑

Wed May 27, 2020 8:20 pm

D4V33 wrote: ↑

Sun May 24, 2020 12:10 pm

I might just fire a gazebo up in the garden on brew days

D4V,
Wouldn`t that be dangerous?
Or have you got lots of gazebos to burn?

WA

Haha

Great looking piece of kit you've put together there =D> =D> =D> =D> Thanks 😊 I tested the kettle out last night with some liquid extract. It brought 25L to a nice rolling boil with ease! The cheap REX-C100 PID controllers work really well and hold a nice steady temp. I ended up having to keep the ...

As I’ve mention already, Brewuk have told me twice that my item is in the post, yet nothing has arrived. I’ve emailed several times but, no reply. I noticed on there site that the have a chat forum, so though yeh, Maybe I’ll be able to communicate with someone from their organisation on the forum. I...

D4V, Switches and lights turn up today. I’ve done the easy bit putting it all together. Time to open it up and start on the spaghetti!! Good looking Hop spider. :D Is that your Brew shed in the back of the pic? Love the big plant on the left of the pic, I am looking for things like that for my gard...

Will be testing the kettle out tomorrow

Today I knocked up a hop spider out of an old filter housing.

Will take a pic of the inside once I’ve tidied it up and I have the sockets fitted for the 2 elements and the 2 pumps. At the moment they’re all just lying in a mess.

I used Wago 222 block connectors to connect it all together, made it such an easy job. Wish I had found these before.

All wired up! Wasn’t that bad at all.

Ready to test out

Switches and lights turn up today. I’ve done the easy bit putting it all together.

Time to open it up and start on the spaghetti!!

More good quality work! Though of course, in the UK these things are only used for making distilled water :) The false bottom is unfortunate. Whilst BrewUK have published much extended dispatch/delivery estimates, what I've heard on forums lately suggests these can still be wildly optimistic, to pu...

Got some pale extract, cascade and citra hop to play with this weekend. Will let me test the kettle out while waiting on the false bottom arriving.

Here’s hoping the lock down relaxes soon so I can go fishing or something, otherwise I’m going to end up building a full scale brewery by the end of it lol

Managed to speak with someone again from BrewUk about the 12” false bottom I ordered on the 16th of April (about 5 weeks ago). Took about 3 week for the first delivery which was the wrong item, then on the 4th of this month they said they would post a replacement which never arrived. So this time th...

Haydnexport wrote: ↑

Tue May 19, 2020 6:30 pm

That bkeg weld is pretty nice mate, and i bet the inside was a right pita !

Cheers and yes lol