Jim's Beer Kit

I did a Festival Landlords Bitter in August and it was superb, although next time I won't use so many hops. The only downside was getting the liquid malt extract out of the sachets - tins are much easier. With my limited knowledge of brewing, I hope that getting the extract out of the sachets is th...

I got it for £23.50 and when I grow up I want to be a yeast!

As promised in another thread here starts my blow by blow account of my attempt to make a Festival New Zealand Pilsner under pressure. Given my limited knowledge of the Noble Art of Brewing it should be a long road of hit and miss occurrences. The up side of this is that in no way can I be held resp...

Well I have taken the risk and thrown it in my latest brew and everything went well until I pressurised my FV. Within 20 mins SG dropped from 1.050 to 1.010? Temp remains stable and reasonably accurate and battery remains constant at 4.5v.

Taken delivery of a new calibrated ispindle and I have been testing it for accuracy before using it. The calibration on it was surprisingly accurate and during the three day test, both temperature and SG have remained constant at SG 1.000 and 22.3c which my heater is set at. On day three the battery...

Two weeks ago in Tesco I saw Pinters for sale at £129! reduced to £79 with a Tesco card..... Mmmmmmm........ this induced the thought process in me which I hate because it hurts and produces a smell of burning rubber. Nah I thought its only makes 10 pints? Tonight in the Tesco store again they have ...

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Do you mean one of these?

https://brew2bottle.co.uk/products/30l- ... ing-chubby
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Yep thats the one!

Thinking of getting a couple of chubbies......... any advice?