Jim's Beer Kit

Use a clean ale yeast. The only temperature control I have is what my basement is. I sometimes brew a lager grainbill with ale yeast in the summer and an ale grainbill with a lager yeast in the winter.

Trefoyl wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 21, 2025 12:03 am

Is it repackaged Nottingham?

I have no idea, but on a different forum I saw a post claiming it was similar to S-04.

It was burping through the airlock every 15 seconds 22 hours after pitching.
This morning every 4 seconds 46 hours after pitching.

1.049 original gravity. Burping through the airlock every 15 seconds 22 hours after pitching.

My first go with this, in an ESB of 1.049: 3.3 gallons.

It's just as well that it's discontinued. As it ages a bit it's getting kind of blah.

Another delivery and I'm set up for the next 18 months.

F G is 1.016

Top Cat wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:27 pm

Bloody hell Rookie, how long are they going to last, and how will you keep them fresh and usable?

Freeze them. I had a pound of amarillo last 5 years that way.

I'm up to over five pounds of hops in stock!

Brewed this Tue

This tasted amazing

I brewed a batch of bitter last year with bramling hops that I really like. Unfortunately the only shop I ever saw that carried them went out of business. You could grow your own. https://sandyridgefarmsinc.com/product/bramling/ Cool, but unfortunately because of the large trees on the empty lot ne...

I brewed a batch of bitter last year with bramling hops that I really like. Unfortunately the only shop I ever saw that carried them went out of business. We can send Bramling Cross hops to you, we are sending a fair few varieties, especially English, to the States now. Bramling cross I can find, b...

bitter_dave wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 06, 2025 10:20 pm

It might be a wise idea to move to the UK Rookie, where we have a plentiful supply

I'm too old to make such a major move.