Jim's Beer Kit

Its going, just slowly I think 10 points or so to go!

Cheers - we still need to meet up for a beer!

I've not brewed since last year but I'm doing a group brew today. I am making a robust porter with coffee and the OG is going to be around 1.075. I bought 2 vials of WLP001 to stick on the stir plate (which I put in my brew fridge). Anyway I did this 2-3 days ago, set the control to 20 degrees and w...

So my plants are growing in a pile unsupported this year due to laziness :) my garden is north facing but the front of my house is south facing. I live in a mid terrace though. I'm thinking having looked at how you guys are doing it, of just getting a long ladder and screwing some wooden blocks to t...

Hmm, it turned into some kind of milkshake in the keg. Need to fix at some point assuming its not gone off, lol. The epic BBQ of drinking infinite beer came and went, fortunately the IPA went down a treat!

Cheers guys. Hopefully the subject line of this post is easy enough for future people to find!

Mike.

Probably done it now. Lets see if I have coolant left tomorrow!

I have a hotpoint RLA30 that I am making into a keggerator (but with remote taps above it). I have a problem with where to drill a hole for the beer/gas lines - the door has the ATC800+ mounted in it, and ideally the hole would go through the top of the fridge. However, I started to drill a hole (af...

WLP300 go boom. WLP300 always go boom. I'll add the brewday photos when I get a min...

Worth saying I wasn't anywhere near a stuck mash... maybe I'll do one with more wheat next time to see how nuts I can get it

Extended brewday again as my element gave up the ghost as far as I can tell. Or its got caked on sugar. I moved the wort to another vessel, let it cool down, put some in again and it started up again... only to stop before the rolling boil. I'll clean it. Fortunately I had a spare element as the one...

Tried yours yet crookedeyeboy I'm liking mine, will have to save them for special occasions as this stuff always gets better with age

So this is the other beer to fill my second keg for legendary BBQ later in the year as well as break in the keggerator. 71.3% Weyermann German Wheat Malt 14.4% German Munich Malt 10.2% German CaraPils 4.1% German Carafa II Hopped to 12.4IBU with 30g of 3.8% Czech Saaz for the whole 90 minute boil Wa...

Too late now, the mash is on, but its funny - I was going to do a lager profile but then after a lot of googling saw that the profile varies wildly in this style and its just down to the brewer. So I went middle of the road. Hopefully the Carafa won't impart something I am not looking for!

This has come down to 1.0125 adjusted and is tasting lovely. Will be dry hopping this today...