Jim's Beer Kit

Bottling should be done by siphoning the beer straight to the bottom of the bottle only to avoid oxidisation.

Probably simpler to prime your bottles with dry sugar via a funnel and let the siphoning process mix the sugar into your beer.

I'm not sure Dave Line or Graham Wheeler would subscribe to that view. (FG1000 that is). What books are you reading?

purple_chicken wrote:no 10 gal fermenter but I do have 2 x 5Gals.

Is there any difference in strength between the first and second batches in a batch sparge?

Could you just not run half of each sparge off into each vessel?

Hi I've done a several pilsners all of which all have turned out good. I am look for a cobra or Kingfisher tasting clone, using onlt malt extract and hops only. I have'nt got the equipment to do a full Mash Brew. If anyone had done one I'd be happy to know how it turned out, or if you know the ingr...

Cool! It just seems strange as there seems to be little (if any) noise/movement in this one where the youngs went off like a rocket! I will just stay cool! Ta, Nath The level of aeration of this one might have been less, so the yeast may be taking longer to multiply - or it could be a strain or yea...

Waffty wrote:One tip I do when bottling, is fill a small fizzy pop (panda shandy type bottle), with my brew & then give it a squeeze every so often. Then when it's hard, you know, the secondary process is working, if it stays squiggy, you know somethings gone wrong.

Darren

Top tip!

Mike I don't know an exact answer to this, but if this is a cold lagering period typical of Czech Budwars etc., then I suspect that the traditional method would be to put it in a lagering barrel for 12 weeks at around 6 - 7 degrees subject to you having used a suitable yeast in the first place or ha...

chopperswookie wrote:... and i live about 6 miles away from me

Well that looks like a pint to me.

Keep on at it!

Congratulations Wolfdog!

Any piccies? What kit? What's planned next?

I wrote a short note on this subject years ago...
http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/bottling.htm

i will be bottling my brew so wont be able to leave the hops in there for the whole conditioning period. would this be ok- when fermentation has finished rack off into another fv and drop in 20g goldings in a hop bag with a marble in the bottom and leave for 1 week and then bottle? Might be better ...

I'd go with Garth, leave the brewbelt off and just leave the bottles a little while longer.

The better quality the malt you use the better the result IMO, although i would see no real harm in trying Coopers own recommendation on your first kit in this range, at least to give you a baseline to experiment from. The received wisdom on the subject of dry hopping would be to tie your hops in a ...

would this kit benefit from the addition of a few extra hops or is it best left alone? ive read a few different reviews on this kit, they have all been pretty good but was wondering what peoples opinions on here are?i was thining about adding some goldings to it along with some light dme. Well assu...