Jim's Beer Kit

If you can try to get your head round Bru 'n Water , it will calculate malt acidity for you and give a very good prediction of mash pH. You can then adjust your treatment to suit each recipe. It looks really daunting at first but you don't need a chemistry degree! You can figure it out just by readi...

It will depend on the cylinder size but if you call it 10kg each, you won't be overestimating by much.

At any point after the kettle, finings are going to strip some flavour out. I prefer not to use them. It doesn't really matter if you forget the protofloc; it's not a necessity.

Just scale the recipe down until you get a bigger boiler.

I'll give you a tenner to squirt a whole syringe onto your tongue and put it on youtube.

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Not a lot of point trying to chill it now; most of the esters and fusels are created in the early stages of fermentation. There's a good chance it will taste like paint stripper for a month or two, but age might heal it.

Which yeast were you using?

Looks pretty yeasty to me.

koomber wrote:It's worth remembering that dry hopping can introduce a hazyness to beer, and it can be a bugger to shift too.

If you try to clear a hop haze, what's the point dry hopping in the first place?

Im my view, a hop haze is a sign of quality in an IPA.

It'll be fine. It won't necessarily make tasty beer at those temps, but it's alright for a starter.

Welcome back, btw.

Thanks for the replies guys. I've had a look at the carbonation chart and it makes sense however I can't find any formula for the pressure drop along the pipe in order to get the 1-2 psi at the tap. Could you point me in the right direction please? The tube to the tap on the other side of the coole...

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I would move more hops to the end of the boil. Blue Monkey beers are very big on hop flavour. I'd aim for 35-40 IBU, with most of it coming from additions in the last 30 mins.

Have you tried emailing them? Some brewers are really helpful. One local micro even let me read his recipe book.

hophit wrote:Charles Faram which is th UK wholesal distributer for these hops also doesn't have any yet.

Farams were allocating them last week. I presume that means they're in hand now. You jumped the gun, just slightly.

The safety collar has expired and it looks pretty hammered. You'll have to get that serviced rather than a straight refill.