Jim's Beer Kit

patwestlake wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:23 pm

Are the Asda/Tesco elements all stainless

Looks like I'm a bit out of date - can't see any corded kettles any more Used to be able to get "basics" kettles for a little over a fiver and rip the 2.1 or 2.4kW elements out.

Search forum for "peco rust". Results from 2014 to 2016. I wouldn't buy them unless they had changed spec. Search forum for "peco". Results from 2017 include scorched and failed examples. I've never used Peco. Better off with 2.4 Tesco/Asda etc kettle elements which I have in my plastic 70 ltr boile...

I am dipping my toe in the realms of recipe construction .... [snipped] ... I have never used Special B and suspect it can be overpowering I went "off-piste" making up my own recipes very soon after starting AG. However, when it came to experimenting with one ingredient I made a mistake of just upp...

Thinking about this. Why not steep a small quantity and see what the liquor tastes like?

Sealed and stored coolish? No limit*

*Well, Muntons say 12 months I believe, but whenever I've searched I found no evidence going over this makes a detectable difference. I've used black malt 2 years old.

Aleman wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 10, 2018 10:13 am

Better make sure the domain get's paid for as well

Oh dear

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Expiry date: 24-Nov-2018

Brexit?

I'd not bother sanitising if filling soon after. Before corny kegs, I used 2 ltr clear cola bottles, but these were moved into dark storage after three days and drunk within a couple of months (I assume you're doing this).

"Xmas" brew? Letting the side down I think

There should be a minimum of 500g cloves, half a Christmas pudding and six stuffing balls steeped in one of Santa's old socks.

But Merry Christmas anyway.

My concerns about pitching straight into the used FV is that I've heard it is a massive over pitch and sanitation, but I have heard it can be done. Do you need to sanitise any of the used FV? The empty FV looked OK, no black or white stuff around the rim so in it went. A recent "yoghurt pot of krau...

Not advice, just observations: I step up my slants in approx 1030 wort for all my brews which are in the region of 1045 OG. Now if the yeast does that jump and has acclimatized to ESB, would it have problems jumping to 1067? I've had fine results from: putting wort directly into a recently emptied F...

It won’t control anywhere near accurately enough. Because the temperature probe isn't waterproof so has to get taped to the outside? As a note - I built my own for less than half the price as I had sockets/extension lead spare and bought a cheap project box, but since it takes around a hour to mod ...

I do find the usual plastic ones a bit rubbish and seem get a bit stiff and wear out over time, so a shiny disconnect to go with the shiny key would be right up my street.. :lol: Yeah, right. If they "wore out" they'd get looser. Stiff means they're probably gummed up with a bit of rubber or beer d...

The keg was purged leaving CO2 above the beer. I think there is very little chance of a significant amount of air getting in. Sometimes when I've filled a keg I have some beer left in the FV which gets syphoned into a 2 ltr coke bottle perhaps with a considerable amount of air remaining above it. A ...