Jim's Beer Kit

A very good step. Please post the findings of the analysis to open this discusion further. Will do, as I’ll need help to use the results!!! Hi guys. Please find results of water analysis below Sodium as Na, mg/L 32.0 Potassium as K, mg/L 4.0 Magnesium as Mg, mg/L 7.8 Calcium as Ca, mg/L 51.8 Chlori...

I tend to ferment for around 10 days and always check the gravity before transfering. Most seem to finish around 1.012 give or take the odd point.

I use 20lt polypins. Most beers will I just leave for around 3 weeks and they beer will prime naturally as they condition. If the pin was not started to expand after 2 weeks I will add about 70gms of priming sugar.

Welcome always good to have more Essex brewers on board

I used this beer as my main yeast source for years. Unfortunately they changed it to a priming yeast quite a few years back but must admit not tried it for at least 10 years.

I know Adnams is duel strain and I believe one dominates if repitched after just a few generations how that applies to their mini kegs I don't know.

Sorry SO4

I would keep it to Pale malt, a bit of crystal, fuggles for hops and avoid SO2 like the plague.

After a couple of years following the recipes of Ken Shales and CJ Berry I bought this book around 1980 and it was a life changing moment as it made me realise I could not only make good beer I could make great beer. Stand out ones from memory London pride, Abbot ale, Sam Smiths, Bass plus several o...

Looks good to me.

I use this yeast a lot and would not worry the clumping is quite normal. I normally get a slight head at this stage. How old is the yeast and how long do you intend to keep on the stir plate

Yes it is addictive.

He left out the yeast on purpose as the yeast the brewers use is generally not available to the public. Brewlabs would supply specific yeasts but they have changed the way they trade recently so not sure if that is still an option. Personally if using liquid yeast I would go for any of the British s...

Thanks, I'm glad you included that link I had seen it before but could not find it again, it does show some difference in malt from GW's recipe, so that will probably help me with developing it. GW would always say his recipes were not scaled down copies of the original brewery recipe just his inte...

Personally I find the 2nd and 3rd editions of Graham's books the best but that is probably because they contain more of the beers I want to brew. I don't have the Greg Hughes book but I have read somewhere that most of the book he just copied the work of others.