Jim's Beer Kit

I have to keep my bottled brews outside. No space inside. Most of them were brewed March/April time. I do keep them under cover in a side alley that never catches direct sun, and they are kept against a north facing wall. Even so they do get warm and the weather has been hot recently. I'm hoping the...

Thanks for all the replies folks. Think I'll try the pdtnc recipe and see how that goes, but tempted by adapting the summer lightening recipe in GW book hmmm.... whatever I do i'll repeat with nelson sauvin cos that sounds an interesting hop. Haven't got any of it yet buy will order shortly. I'm qui...

I had a few pints of a lovely cascade single hopped beer in the pub at lunchtime. Sadly I don't have any cascade hops at home but have some citra hops and would love to try a single hopped beer with only citra hops. Am thinking of 95% pale malt and 5% crystal malt to about 4.5% abv. And then citra f...

Three weeks ago I did an SNPA clone. I batch sparge. I mash with mash water in litres at 2.5 times the weight of the grain in kilos, and then sparge twice with each sparge at 50% of the water required to make up the total amount of wort I want to go into the boiler. I usually leave each sparge for 1...

Thanks for all the advice folks, and the tip about keeping an eye out for cooker damage, fisherman

I'll go for a 50litre stockpot on the gas ring and see how it goes. If I'm not happy I can always add a decent element at a later date and go back to electric.

Time to order a nice shiny pot!

Hi I've been brewing for a while using an Electrim bin which has worked well, but struggles a bit on the capacity front for my 23 litres brew lengths. I normally have to top up part way through the boil after some evapouration loss to make sure I have the correct amount of liquid at the end. I was t...