Jim's Beer Kit

I make one every year. http://jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopi ... mpkin+beer

Brief status update. Primary is just about done. Beer has fermented out well. Good colour, clarity. Aroma? Pear and black currant notes are certainly there but far more muted than expected. I expect them to lift a little when it's carbed up. So, just to make sure I'm going to dry hop with 3g/l Seymo...

How did you calc the AA% Basically you don't. If they are green bine they are generally a lower alpha hop, Red bine higher. Yeah. Wild guess and just something I punched into my brew software when I added the big-cohona to my database. It's irrelevant really until I taste the beer. Looking forward ...

Oatmeal Ale?! Why not! I'll explain. I was trying to think of the qualities that oats bring to something like a stout. I wanted a dry beer that'll finish well - looking for good attenuation without a lot of body form a lot of crystal. So, thought I'd give a small amount of plain oatmeal a go in this...

Not that I can personally go there, but can you identify the coordinates on Google Maps for us, just out of curiosity? I'd love to check-out the "terroir." Sure. That's the google streetcar view from about 4 M in front of where I got the plant. Zoom out to the map to see the lie of the land . My ho...

Time for an update... I dried them, vac packed and then just last weekend got round to brew with them. Here's what I did. Oat Pale Ale (English IPA) Original Gravity (OG): 1.050 (°P): 12.4 Final Gravity (FG): 1.013 (°P): 3.3 Alcohol (ABV): 4.91 % Colour (SRM): 9.7 (EBC): 19.1 Bitterness (IBU): 29....

How about bottle stability? I have bad experience with bottled beers fermented by Fuller's strain from Wyeast. It was always overcarbonated after 6 - 8 weeks and lost all these nice flavours it had initially. That's an interesting point. I've no access to the Wyeast variant... only culturing up fro...

Good write up. Good pics, good walk through of a brewday! Well done! All your lessons learned are valid ones... rest assured that when you're thirty-something brews in you'll still be picking up new things! It's about the journey - not the destination. Enjoy that beer and onwards and upwards to your...

I'd ordered this from the USA a few weeks ago and via a convoluted route (Zurich, Switzerland!) it's made its way to France at last. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8040/8049785414_5c2bcf0b98_z.jpg I've already accumulated a reasonable body of books (and other literature) on IPAs but this was a must-h...

Posting here... to an old thread because the overall tenet is that the fullers yeast might be troublesome to cultivate? not so... From a fresh bottle, into a 1020 starter it spins up on a stir plate exceptionally well to give exceptional results. It's flocculant, good attenuation and lots of classic...

Excellent thread. I've twice now hydrated up a batch of raw corn kernels and pressure cooked them to gelatinise them and then run out of time to get a brew on.

So, the corn went to the chickens and geese and I've yet to get a corn influenced APA. Soon, soon.

I'm blessed with some old hop plantations here abouts that have long since been left fallow. This has (in previous years) given me monster hauls of hops ... far more than I can reasonably use but nevertheless I do still go and pick some for my small scale use here. The majority of what I get are muc...

... and some followup. My last pint of this... and some tasting notes after it'd had some bottle conditioning time. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8452/8019345223_20bfd42bb7_c.jpg Winter IPA by adrianfoden , on Flickr So. IPA's. I don't always brew them but when I do - very happy with the results. Th...

Ahh.. right - they will deal with you at the factory door so if you're mobile you can make an appointment to rock up and collect just a sack. They're a little slow. You need to fill in an order form, it gets packed/picked for you and left on a pallet for collection at a fixed time. takes about a wee...

Odd flavour? If you care to expand?

My guess is mineral imbalance, yeast, temp control etc. Unlikely to be a bit of wheat I'd have thought.