Jim's Beer Kit

mozza wrote:I compost mine and it breaks down quite happily

I made a compost heap to avoid the problems that the OP mentions. Usually your compost is overwhelmingly lawn clippings which make it imbalanced. Mash grains still have loads of carbs in them and the two will balance out.

Depends where you live, but when I harvested them, I was always looking out for them from May. Some places they would not show up until late May or June, and blooms can persist into July; but they are best harvested early in the season when there is good weather. Maybe scottish isles it might bloom ...

Elderflower should be starting to bloom any day now. You could just harvest fresh?

Or you can put 10mm ID vinyl tube around the copper, and 12mm/ 1/2” ID tubing around that.

You will need lots of hose clips, well tightened.

There has been a few people in contact with the liquidation company, but they don't seem to be too responsive.

But the offer is genuine - we got a heads up from the ex-head of ubrew about it, and we were expecting the brew kit to hit the liquidators at some stage.

If lager isn’t your thing, pick up some of the classics from a good offy or go online. Without having to search too hard , you should be able to get pilsner urquell, budvar, bitburger, krombacher, staropramen, veltins and spaten. If you can source more hell lager try that too, like paulamer hell or ...

Getting good lager is tricky- there are plenty of commercial breweries that can’t pull it off or won’t bother. You are relying a lot on the base malt; while you can substitute a lot of pale ale malt across a range of ale styles, I think you have less wiggle room with lager malt. Bite the bullet and ...

So does the PET bottle growler with the double carbonation cap need some sort of diptube? Can you attach hosing to the inside some how? Looks interesting You would source your carbonation caps seperately, and one of those would have the internal barb that you can hopefully fit something like a 3/8"...

I have had cubes spoil due to infection. The issue here isnt the CO2 source (but the micron filter is a good idea anyway), but the bag/bladder you are using as a CO2 capture / reservoir. If you are going this route, you might want to consider using a sankey keg as your no chill cube (but double chec...

You are undermining the sanitary benefits of cube pasteurisation by leaving the wort exposed to your co2 source

The co2 bag will not be as sanitary to the same degree as the cube

I believe Stella Artois / ABInbev have a process where they bubble CO2 through the wort at sub boiling temperatures that achieves the same objectives. In their case it’s about being a good ecological citizen and using less energy/smaller carbon footprint. It would imply that wort agitation is the k...

Q: (to @homebrew_pete) are you making objectively good beer on the system you have, or do you recall it making good beer when you were more active? Q: is it good across all the styles of beer you like to make? Q: are you finding it limiting in some way, i.e. it *cant* make particular styles of beer ...

PET bottles are rated to scary levels. I routinely put 45 PSI into them as a portable gas source for growler kegs. Some sources say they can take 150 PSI, but someone else can do those experiments on their own youtube channel and I will get popcorn. Oh and if we are talking about practical uses for ...

I believe Stella Artois / ABInbev have a process where they bubble CO2 through the wort at sub boiling temperatures that achieves the same objectives. In their case it’s about being a good ecological citizen and using less energy/smaller carbon footprint. It would imply that wort agitation is the ke...

Yup, going with kegs is the way to go, but research your spunding valve well. They are not all made equally.

I see a lot of positive comments on the “blow tie”