Jim's Beer Kit

I never used them but there are lots of success stories with polypins on the forum. This link crops up and is still live:

http://www.baginboxonline.co.uk/buyit1.html

Knowledge is better than speculation. Ask your water company. I asked the Drinking Water Inspectorate in 2015 and got this answer:

chloramines

I have a £35 RO filter system for brewing. I live in a very hard water area.

Mashman wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:45 am

I now have a source of apples, mixed dessert and cookers.

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

I'm surprised Jim hasn't immediately banned you for trying to re-ignite the "dessert vs cookers" cider war of 2011

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If soapy water is proving difficult, I tested my corny kegs by filling a plastic storage container and rolling them about checking for bubbles. If you haven't got a suitable container, maybe roll it around in a rubbish bag filled with water (in the bath or outside!).

I think it would kill my electrics - 3.2kW pushing it?

What about passive cooling like an old fashioned ice house? ISTR a few ice packs in a cool box (maybe 5% of the volume of the box?) kept dairy stuff cool for two days on camping trips in hot summers. You're only needing to go to 12C and your storage is in the shade so ice should last longer. It's up...

The American IPA is Centennial and Chinook

On the Malt Miller site it says 'Having a system that allows a whirlpool action after the boil has big benefits for flame out hop utilisation' . I'd be surprised. Whatever hops are present during whirlpooling, they'll get utilised. But whirlpooling movement cools the wort a bit quicker vs letting i...

It varies, usually around 12 but sometimes less (or a lot less, especially if I forget I have left the gas on one keg and the tap on the other - has been known!)

Very easy to replace assuming you have the correct spanner to remove the post. I have two corny kegs in my fridge @ 13C. I only use around four feet of 3/16th beer line. I have no foaming with a conventional long dip tube. I have a bit of foaming with a short "out" dip tube and internal float connec...

The dip tube sits on a small rubber seal. If that seal has split perhaps gas could be entering at the base of the out post.

Does this mean you'll need to increase the alkalinity for brewing? I only ever use my hard water which needs the alkalinity reducing, so I have no idea what's needed when you start with low alkalinity water. I aim for the correct alkalinity range by simply using a small amount of my very hard tap w...

8% drop in it's purest form. I've just done AG brew #99 which was BIAB. I started AG using BIAB way back in 2008 and also regularly use a conventional 2-vessel AG thermopot mash tun. Long ago, I tried to work out some sort of theoretical basis and kept this calculation: Initial assumptions: 1) 35 lt...

I have a bunch of old plastic ones in shed that fit but I'm not sure if they are food safe. Brewing a few times with such a non-food safe component while you source a metal replacement isn't a problem. Think of toddlers in a paddling pool, happily drinking copious amount or water that has passed th...

gallons per day. I got the smallest and just leave it running unless we leave the house.