Jim's Beer Kit

I swapped my glass shelf for a wooden one. I used pine board and rebated the ends so it slid into the grooves that the glass shelf was in.

Great stuff!

On the RLA larder fridges the pipes are at the back, but go easy just in case.

I've not got a photo to hand but I drilled approx. 2 inches down and 2 inches in from the back, on the right hand side (when looking from front). There were no cooling pipes there, and I widened the hole to fit 2 gas lines and 2 beer lines. I'd say go slow when cutting from the outside or inside, th...

The plastic inside is super thin and a new Stanley blade will fly through it. You may not be able to bend the plastic without tearing or breaking it, if that's your intention with the letterbox idea. I did a similar thing with the same fridge but grinded away the metal outer skin with a Dremel befor...

I've not used S04 for a long time, after switching to the Crossmyloof yeasts I've been using their Midland in darker beers. I find it more interesting than S04.

When I looked last year I could only find filtered bottles too.

I'm not sure to be honest. I suppose the sugar in the orange juice would ferment, not sure what it would do to the flavour really.

I couldn't as I bought dried orange peel. I used the peel from some grapefruit in a different brew before but found it a PITA getting the zest off without the pith. Dried is the way to go, although Weatheroak now use orange extract which is readily available in Sainsbury's. The one to use is Nielsen...

Brewed this 2 weeks ago, got it in the keg on Friday. Force carbed for 36 hours then dropped to serving pressure. What a lovely pint, as the description says, not full on orange but very fruity and tasty. Used CML Five yeast and swapped out the Admiral for Chinook. Will definitely brew again. At 4.7...

I am going to brew a Saaz lager. Based on the Greg Hughes recipe. I brewed it a couple of years ago and it came out pretty good. The Saaz I have are only 2.2% AA. Would it greatly effect the beer if I used some Admiral as the bittering hop? It would save me a lot of Saaz. I would be looking at hitt...

I put mine in the food recycling, I got a larger bin so less of a problem.

I've done it that way with a lager yeast, it definitely works.

For your 1st batch of turbo cider I wouldn't. There's more than enough sugar in the apple juice alone to produce something with a high ABV.

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That's all I've ever used in turbo cider.