Jim's Beer Kit

Hi, i brew extract in a wilko stock pot and then add to 3 gallons of cold water, similar to papazians book, which cools the wort down to around 32 degrees, its a little hap-hazard but the results have been pretty good so far. That's good to know but I measured one in wilkies and the quoted 24cm is ...

Well that was a pleasant afternoon's work. Ditch's stout put in the 2nd barrel and the trial extract brew on :) I resisted the urge to have a taste, I want the coopers to blow me away so I'll give it a couple of weeks in barrel before suppin it :unsure: The smell from the kitchen brought back many m...

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That would explain it then. I suppose the only way is to try a 5 gallon brew (presuming my trial is ok) and see if I can replicate the beer.

Pardon the silly question but wouldn't 2.5 galls leave too much space in a budget barrel? The trial I'm planning is only going into 500ml pop bottles.

Great news. So if I follow your method and steep 55g of crystal for 30 mins before the boil with 250g of dry malt and 14g of fuggles, then add the ballance of the malt with the 44g of sugar when I top up? Does that sound about right? :) Do you think I'd just about manage to do a 5 gallon batch in th...

I'm planning on doing a 1 gallon trial of OldSpeckledBadger's simple extract brew but the biggest pan I can lay my hands on at the mo is about 5 pints to the brim. Am I doomed to failure with such a small pan? :( If the brew works I'd scale it up a but funds and space being what they are I think the...

Hi all About 20 years ago I brewed all grain for a period of about 18 months but gave up as I couldn't replicate my 1st brew (Dave Line's Guinness). While I'm not that keen on that particular brew the recipe came out as a very VERY tasty stout :D The problem I was having could only be descried as a ...

Might see how much the wherry improves with age and try the nelsons then :) I'd be happier if the woodfordes wern't so hazy tho. I gather the other 2 can kits that muntons do don't suffer so I wonder if any of those are like bombardier? Just how many different "brands" of muntons are there? :? The y...

Fingers crossed....... I've finally lit the blue touch paper that is a Coopers Stout. Made it up with the prescribed 1kg of medium dried malt but to 20 litres to hopefully avoid an earbashing from the missus if the inevitable happens :wall 1st brew (wherry) is going down ok even tho it's still rathe...

Not sure of it's genuine origins but I was told that the plastic sack it came from had Puremalt printed on it. Had a google for them and it seems they supply the brewing trade , based in Scotland somewhere

I have just purchaced a coopers stout kit and was wondering if it would be better to follow the instructions that come with the kit or as one book suggests( cant seem to find which one it was) ignore it and boil the whole wort aithout adding the cold water. also is the yeast the best one or would i...

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Thanks for the reply
The spray malt I've got is used in food flavours and is used as is without any further processing. It's just added as one more dry ingredient to the powder blend. I think it's for for snack flavours if that's any help?

Thanks again

Hi all New chap here, returning to the gentle art after a gap of far too many years :( 1st brew on is a Wherry (didn't stick either) can't wait to try it, next one planned when I get my 2nd barrel will be the infamous Coopers stout =P~ Now to my question...... Has anyone heard of a company called Pu...