Jim's Beer Kit

We're spoiled with the Braumeister, eh!

I've been "no chilling" in 20 litre cubes for years, and love the method. Compared with chilling coils, pumps, iced water baths, recirculating water back into the rainwater tank, etc etc, it's simplicity itself! For hoppy beers, delay late hop additions by 10 minutes to account for the hop stand at ...

Thanks Eric. I'm assuming that glucose syrup is less costly than using malted barley then? (or else why would they use it). Or does it give a flavour which malted barley cannot?

PeeBee, just read through your comprehensive thread on sugars. Thank you for the link. You surely gave your keyboard a good pounding with that lot! And clarets7, I got the same advice as well re the yeast. I've made some nice beers re-culturing/growing Coopers yeast from their bottles, so will do th...

I'm looking for insights into recipe formulation for this beer, particularly the use of brewing sugar/s. The label is clear - "glucose syrup": 1698 ingredients.jpg Glucose syrup, aka corn syrup, aka Dextrose, contributes bugger-all flavour (as I understand). I use it purely for bottle conditioning. ...

Thanks PeeBee - The BJCP notes concede that "a wide range of interpretations is possible" for style group 17A - British Strong Ale. Among the commercial examples listed are: Fuller’s 1845, Harvey’s Elizabethan Ale, J.W. Lees Moonraker, McEwan’s Champion, Samuel Smith’s Winter Welcome, Shepherd Neame...

Well, this recipe is a strange one! It seems the author is Swedish, based on the water profile, from Orebro. Now Sweden has been metric since 1889 (except they still use the "Swedish mile = 10km"), so I'm puzzled by the translation of exact metric units into imperial. The water quantity I'm assuming...

Thanks Ian - That recipe looks interesting at first glance. Now I'll spend a few minutes converting the amounts to metric and percentages so I can understand it. Lbs ,ounces, points of ounces, and gallons (US or Imperial?) are so cumbersome and difficult for me now. I can't remember when Australia w...

Thanks Mashbag, re contacting the brewery - I'll try that. And IPA, I've have great success with ales and stouts recently, using an Aussie yeast company called Bluestone, and their "London" ale yeast. Probably close to 1318 - threw some lovely esters in a stout. I drank one of my British Browns toni...

I was given a bottle of Shepherd Neame "Kentish Strong Ale", and - Wow! Loved it, and would like to brew something like it. Does anyone have an AG recipe which might come close? I've brewed lots of ales over the years, both English style and American, but there was a flavour in the SN that I just co...

Update on pump head: This is the flow from the top of the 19mm (3/4") conduit. Wall thickness is 2mm, so ID is 15mm. BM pump head.jpg Both pump controls are in the max position, and the output from both is pretty much the same. So for any BM50 owners, it's probably worth a check on your pump outputs...

I got a link the other day to an interesting piece put together by the makers of Starsan (and other brew-related chemicals): https://fivestarchemicals.com/interactive-cleaning-guides?_kx=dtEwfUBy3gNXi-ZQQKja8eyLLMq8zei9KXzRWOwbRUE%3D.VZpUmw In this is a statement which caused me (initially) to sit u...

G'day Ian - the RHS was the most powerful. This is also the side I modified with the "lower drain mod", however during that mod the pump setting was not touched. For comparison, I'll add some water to the BM this morning, turn on the pumps, and in turn take photos of the fountain of water out of the...

Yes - when I bought my BM 50 second-hand a few years ago, the speed control knobs were sealed into position with red sealing wax. I assumed this indicated they were not to be fiddled with. But now that I have (fiddled) I'll experiment further. I imagine there is an optimum setting to ensure a good c...

OK - it turns out the pump is a type commonly used in re-circulating How Water Systems. On my BM, they're the Laing E1vario. So variable speed control, so I'm sure that no harm will be done to the pump by moving the speed control from one extreme to the other. Just which extreme was Speidel "factory...