Jim's Beer Kit

orlando wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 06, 2018 6:15 pm

How many litrea are you expecting to make? Unless the yeast is out of date I doubt you need 2 packets for such a small grain bill.

Just the usual(for me) 23ltrs so just one yeast it is.

Im putting together a brew to use up my left over malts so I've chucked this into brewsmith. Any comments/warnings? Ingredients: ------------ 2.00 kg Pale Malt, Golden Promise (Thomas Fawcet) 1.66 kg Munich Malt (17.7 EBC) 0.70 kg Pale Chocolate Malt (220.0 EBC) 0.20 kg Crystal Malt - 60L (Thomas Fa...

I did a SMaSH with Munich and Chinook which turned out rather well, I posted my brewday here if you want the recipe.

They sell a St Austell 'Proper Job' recipe pack here which they claim was reviewed/judged by the creator. All the ingredients and instructions required to make the our St Austell Proper Job recipe pack. This is the recipe version of the winning beer in our Proper Job Challenge 2012 as judged by St A...

I use these tulip shaped pint glasses as they are good for a wide range of styles and are robust enough to avoid disappointing breakages.

I used a halfords welding mini gas bottle to gas my king keg back in the day the post is here. I still use this type of bottle with my cornies to purge oxygen of them while filling from my fermenters.

Thanks for all the replies.

I have just got a pair of the crusader kegs from brewuk. Im away at work at the moment and Im eyeing up some stainless pipe to make a spear removal spanner, can anyone tell me the inside diameter of the coupler?

This will just be a spanner for tightening and removing once the keg is de-pressured.

The Grainfather guys did a video about it and explaining their reasons behind cooling straight to the FV. I will recirc back to the BK if I want to bring the temp below 80° for hops but apart for 10 mins for sterilising that's it.

Its just a user upper and a little bit of more is more.

Looking to brew this weekend and I'm planning an IPA with NZ hops and a Vermont style twist, I'm not going for the full on orange juice look but I expect some haze.

Any thoughts, suggestions?

I posted a question about this here. I believe it has to do with the lintner value (°L) of the malt in that if you know what the valve is you can then do this sum.
Lintner_for_batch = Σ(lintner_for_grain * weight_of_grain) / (total_batch_grain_weight)

My understanding was a forward pull opens the tap as normal, the centre position seals the tap and a backward push opens a valve in the piston ball which has the same action almost as a beer engine sparkler. Pushing the handle back moves a stainless steel piston, exposing small holes. The turbulence...

Boil Size: 28.01 l Post Boil Volume: 26.01 l Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l Bottling Volume: 21.49 l Estimated OG: 1.040 SG Estimated Color: 7.9 EBC Estimated IBU: 25.0 IBUs Brewhouse Efficiency: 78.00 % Est Mash Efficiency: 84.8 % Boil Time: 60 Minutes Ingredients: ------------ Amt Name Type # %/I...