Jim's Beer Kit

While tipping the cube back to get the air to the top. While steadily holding the pressure on just enough to stop the wort squeezing out onto the floor. While "nipping" the cap closed at the right moment. While ignoring the ratchets on the straps which would do the job without the effort. While igno...

Don't pour to fill point. Get close and then squeeze it. ... You might not be seeing the implications of what I'm doing to these cubes. You can't "squeeze" them because they have been prevented from bulging out. There's not much to squeeze, and the tackle wrapped about them would make such an opera...

Taken me a couple of months to get it (or me?) together ... 20231023_105503_WEB.jpg No "tennis balls"! There won't be room, or you'd need as many arms as an octopus to assemble it. But some ideas for "modifications" do emerge from the exercise: The filling wants some plumbing so when the cube is ful...

Belgium Stout ???? That's the equivalent of England Bitter Belgium is a country. Belgian is someone or something coming from Belgium. Thank you. I knew I could count on you to correct any grammar slips I make. I blame it on my spelling checker of course. In fact, let me give that a try ... Belgian ...

Time to get this "Extra Stout" on for Christmas. I'm probably leaving it too late already? But I have been having some doubts about the recipe translations for Whitbread Extra Stouts after WWII. The hopping rates appear to have dropped through the floor (the calculated IBUs go from the forties - 41 ...

A pleasanter day yesterday in the mid-Autumn sun (it's peeing it down today). An attempt at Courage's 1914 "X" (crikes, I do need to hold that camera/phone a bit steadier): 20231010_152633_WEB.jpg Didn't quite go to plan ... the first attempt with "no-chill" cubes (in which this spent its first coup...

This is a bit of time-wasting, ... I'm going to get beaten for mentioning "soft water" in that post; may as well go the "whole hog" ... No mention of water "Hardness"? But it's in there, in full sight in that screen snip. It's in the "Foetid Mire". Calcium and Magnesium is responsible for virtually...

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Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:57 pm

Is that a barbie accessory?

Shhh, no-one is supposed to know about that.

This is a bit of time-wasting, but rather interesting? I dug it up a few weeks ago because it was a good example of excess iron in the water (I knew this because it was my water when I lived over there). Seems they've sorted the iron issue out. They've added all the up-to-date stuff like "alkalinity...

You've all probably noticed I'm coming to the end of what I can wring out of me "Defuddler"? But I did have one project I never really finished off. I've been spending this (wet) day resurrecting it... The "Pyknometer" ... Ha, ha , ha ... Ha , ha ,ha , har ... HA, HA, Ha, HA, HAR!!! :aarh:

The "Defuddler", which was updated again on Thursday BTW, is very much supporting the "alkalinity" approach and ion measurements (be it ppm or mg/l) of actual elements in the water. All the "Hardness" stuff, use of arcane "equivalents" (like "CaCO3") and stuff of marginal interest to brewing water g...

Water Defuddler - Development - II.jpg The balance of calculated "Alkalinity" and the reported figure is very close too. I admit I hadn't cleared out the value for "Nitrates" from the SE Water report; I'll just do that (tap, tap, tap ... tap) , there! Hang-on ... 170.1 against 171.53 (Alkalinity in...

Cheers Eric! That immediately got thrown into the (new) "Defuddler": Water Defuddler - Development.jpg (Picture is 75% of full-scale). The "Hardness" failure to compute doesn't bother me (sorry! :-? ). (You can see the Defuddler baulking at the hardness figures at the bottom of this picture - the ho...

There's a newer version available on the download link now. It has got "development" appended to the name, but all of the "Defuddler" is "development" so take no notice. Download from signature. It's loaded with a water analysis from Battle, Kent (weird water - rubbish water report - but it's what I...

The "Defuddler" got its introduction and instructions page too: Water Defuddler snip2.jpg It has the "Battle, Kent" water report loaded by default. That's the water that is the subject of this thread. I've been arranging for a sample of this water to come to me for "scrutiny" before posting the fina...