Jim's Beer Kit

I need some help to select a suitable yeast for a Brewferm Old Flemish Brown kit, because I have had to use the old browns yeast in my out of date Brewferm Gallia kit!! The old brown is a dark belgian beer made to 12 litres with a theoretical OG of 1060 and an FG of 1010. I know very little about ye...

Well I couldn't wait any longer and pitched the yeast from my Brewferm old bruin kit that is in date. I assume this yeast will be ok as they both have a similar OG.

Hmmm, 16 hours since I pitched the yeast and there's no activity whatsoever, which is very unusual for a Brewferm kit.

How long do I leave it before pitching an in-date yeast?

I've put a batch of Brewferm Gallia on tonight that I got cheap because its 2 months out of date. I thought that I'd use some Tesco value golden syrup with this one, so including the kit, syrup and priming sugar, its all come in under £10. 12L Kit 680g Tesco value golden syrup Kit yeast - rehydrate...

Cheers normski

It's like baking a cake, it never rises when you stand and watch it cook.

Brewing just produces a better end product

My Munton's Midas Touch has been in the FV for 6 days now, and I dropped my hydrometer into the wort on day 4 once the intial fermentation had settled down. The reading on day 4 was 1020, and now 2 days later it's still reading 1020 :? There still seems to be activity in the FV, question is, should ...

PMSL? ........WTF LOL!

I am planning to use Golden Syrup in a Brewferm Gallia kit.

Am I correct in thinking that Golden Syrup only has 80% fermentable sugars in it?

As above or Woodfordes Great Eastern.

No, I've got a little 10 litre FV for the 9 litre kits and a 15 litre FV for the 12 litre kits.

I brewed my first ever Brewferm kit in a 25 litre FV, but it looked lost in there and the hydrometer bottomed out too!

I think the 10 litre FV was about £5.50

As you can see from my sig, I am a fan of brewferm kits.

Yes they are good, but need at least 8 weeks as a rule to become good.

If you do go for a Brewferm kit, the Tarwebier, Gold or Pils would all be good summer beers.

Cooper's Aussie Lager is also good and mine was lovely after 4 weeks

thx thats reassuring i always new my lack of pateince was gona be my downfall as a brewer!! Just do what I've done, keep brewing and bottling for a few months, and then you will always have something ready to drink. And I find that when I've got something fermenting, I tend to concentrate on that i...

brianboru wrote:just an fyi :
i made the abidj a few years back and found a forgotten bottle...aged 2+ years....it was good but not much better than the rest which got 3 month in the bottle

That's good to know, cheers.

No I haven't yet, but every time I go into my LHBS there is a lonely Xmas kit on the shelf, that I intend to buy soon so it can have 6 months bottle conditioning before the festive season begins

Have you brewed it?

I brewed my Coopers Aussie Lager with 500g of light spraymalt & 500g of dextrose. After I had bottled all of mine, it looked like cloudy orange squash, but it cleared really well after a week in secondary and was amazingly good to drink after 4 weeks. It's amazing how the bottles are dissapearing, n...