Jim's Beer Kit

Hmmm ... read the whole thread, and lots of good ideas. My turn, I suppose, if it helps: 1. Have you tried tasting the water output from your boiler and/or sparger combination before it goes into the ingredients? Your taste buds are good detectors and maybe you could use them on the raw ingredients ...

This combo made my best beer to date... 4000g Maris Otter 250g Torrified Wheat (Altho you don't technically need this if you don't want) 20g Citra @ 90 30g Citra @ 10 30g Citra @ 0 20g Citra @ Dry Hopped Lovely and zesty (Summer Tipple) with a nice grapefruit/passion fruit hit. Funnily enough, I've...

I use porridge oats all the time, 5% causes no problems at all with my set up. :) You know what, pdntc, I am going to use this combination more in the future! Okay: An Update Both beer's are in their respective barrels, even though I committed 6 to bottles for later drinking (thinking ahead to Xmas...

A quick update: The beer is off like a rocket! The krausen head on it is like a dark whipped cream and is a good couple of inches thick. I'll give it a couple more days and do a gravity test to see where it's at. It started at 1050 at a 23L length so if it drops to 1010 I'll be happy. While I'm here...

I heard a BBC iPlayer thing a while ago on beer brewing so I wondwer if this is the same? I think, IMHO, that we tend to over bitter a beer in England, but that's only me, and it's only my own personal taste. I would site the St. Peter's brews in my defence, m'lud. If they toned down the bitternes t...

Hi Rob, I've made a few brews now with only Citra and the wonderful melon, lime and manadrin flavours have knocked my socks off. It is, for me, the best of all hops. It has a high AA so works in small quantities for bittering, has a great taste as a flavour hop, and does the job well right at the en...

Hi DaveyT, You could follow the advice that cooks use when it comes to lemons, which is, as mentioned, the rind only, no pith. As to washing, most defo! They put wax on the skin to make them look shiney under the supermarket lights so I would recommend using a flannel and loads of hot water. A potat...

Hi All, Okay, I'm starting the brew a day early as the kids are out with their mum until tomorrow. :D Okay, slight recipe change: 4.5K MO 317g Roasted Porridge Oats 200G Bite Size Shredded Wheat 95g Crystal Malt 100g Black Malt 20g East Kent Goldings, 60 mins boil, AA 5.6% 20g at flame out. The yeas...

Brotherton Lad wrote:Toasted porridge oats make for a creamy stout:

http://jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopi ... oats+stout

Excellent thread, Brotherton Lad, read every post! Thanks. I will toast my oats tomorrow so that they have a couple of days to mature before Saturday's brew day.

Dave.

Thanks guys! Some great advise here. Okay, I'll avoid wheetabix (love the picture!) and I'll watch out for the salt in shredded wheat (didn't know there was any!). And the porridge oats I will use in my next brew at, say, just under 10%, as a first time experiment. I think, to avoid the SW coming th...

Welcome, Brewmeister! I love the sound of the Blueberry Porter, and the shot of the PA in the water is very arty and makes me thirsty just looking at it. :D Free yeast you say? That'd be great and a very generous offer - I'd love some. I'm based down in the South East - would that work? Would it sti...

Hi All, Just a couple of quick questions: 1. I've run out of torrified wheat and wondered if I could use shredded wheat instead? I want to help build a head on the beer when I pour it and TW is, I believe, the best way to do this. So, with no TW can I use another form of wheat? 2. I have a tub of po...

You can always add sugar, as mentioned above, but I tend to use honey to bring the SG up. I know, I know, it's a bit expensive, but the results are worth it, especially if you can get a really heavily scented honey as it leaves such a wonderful flavour and aroma in the beer. I find sugar in my beers...

Listening as I type!

Ta.

Dave.

Can you imagine what the outcome would be if beer and lager sales fell so drastically that the Taxman's revenue plunged? Dawn raids to seize and destroy mash tuns, boilers, hop strainers, unlicensed malt & yeast and big prison sentences :twisted: Do you know what, I bet that they Gov. would start t...