Jim's Beer Kit

Picked mine up today - large letter thing.

Cheers!

If anyone's interested, I've roughly translated the PBW cleaning instructions into normal: To CIP Brew Kettles and Lauter Tuns - For single brew cleaning use 7.5g to 12.5g (1.5tsp to 2.5tsp) per litre of hot water for for 25 to 35 minutes. For multiple brew cleaning use 10g (2tsp) per litre of hot w...

Andy__ wrote:I have a RIS ageing in two demi johns. So at Christmas I will bottle with a little wine yeast. I will then age another 6 months

This is my plan, but like the OP I've never done it before. Any idea how much wine yeast to use? One sachet between the two demijohns?

I had the same thing with a similar stout recipe of mine, brewed in July. For the few weeks it took us to drink most of it, it tasted gorgeous - roasty, malty, bitter, lovely & full. So I saved a few bottles back and entered it into the UK Homebrew Compo last weekend (in which it scored very well), ...

Good news. It will only get better in the bottles, as long as they're nice and clean.

I hope it went well yesterday.

Great brewday thread! Thanks! It was a great brewday, if a bit long. Next time will be shorter. I didn't quite get how you worked out to jug 7 litres from the porter to the mild to bring up to strength. I didn't work it out, I just kept jugging it over and checking the gravity of the mild each time...

Yeah! It was them!

Not sure about brewuk's recipe though. They say it's 7.6%

Or indeed the home of capitalism: http://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/beerkits/ ... -pack.html

I'm not really sure. I would probably go for 800g pale malt.

To be honest I never worked out how to do mini-mashes, I went from extract with steeped grains to all-grain.

Yeah anywhere from 2 to 3 litres of water per kilo of grain, it doesn't matter too much.

I think pale malt can convert the same amount again of another grain. So 400g pale malt will convert itself and 400g flaked barley. Might be best to use a bit more though.

Okay, I look forward to it.

(Assuming your phone turned "know" into "loony")

Looks like you had good fun, were you surprised how seamlessly it all seems to flow? Yeah - it was great. At the end of the day it's just a big mash where you separate the batches. When the batches come out at different gravities you can then mix them to get whatever different gravities you desire....

I over-pitched mainly because I didn't actually know how much yeast I had. I bought a packet of wyeast 1968 a couple of months ago and immediately stepped it up to about 600 bil yeast cells (according to http://www.yeastcalc.com ). Chucked half in a brew and split the other half amongst a bunch of p...

Brewday over here. I did end up mixing parts of the gyles together as my estimates for the strengths of the different gyles was way off.

Oh yeah. Obvious now - it did sort of gloop out. There's so many tiny tricks to this brewing lark

Both sets of yeast were well over-pitched anyway. In fact fermentation is done and I've transferred the mild into a barrel and I'm about to put the porter in secondary for another week or so.