Jim's Beer Kit

Hi just up the road to you in Pitsea.

Never tried Double Dragon on draught but I have brewed Graham Wheelers recipe and really enjoyed it.

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...

Hi Bill from another Essex boy, well old boy really. Tolly bitter was a decent session beer but Ridley's was always the favorite bitter.

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.

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Ask the guys at Buxton Brewery?

Is that what they use then? Can't see anything on their website about the water they use

Most brewery's are quite happy to help home brewers with enquires.

Back in the day it was advised to do an iodine check to make sure conversion was complete, personally I've not done this for over 20 years. If you can stll buy the stuff may be worth trying.

I have been drinking Fullers all my life and there is definitely an orangey twang to the beers, especially in the bottles. My old Dad would never touch ESB because of the strength. He used to call it Burton Ale because that was what he said it was called in the 1970s. Not quite. Burton Ales were on...