Jim's Beer Kit

Even though it took some time, it was a fairly stress free game. Far easier than the couple of stove top brews I had done in the past. Sparging with water on the stove was a hassle. I have lots of pellet hops in stock, how well does GF cope with those? Going to get some fuses just in case the 13 amp...

Finished all cleaned up 1 o'clock in the morning Forgot to use protofloc :cry: Wort looked clear collected 23l at 1.040 Counterflow chiller was great The leaf hops was a bit of a pig to clean up need a hop spider would save lots of time on clean up Used connect control manually, got the app on my ta...

Got 28 litres pre boil took a reading of 1.030 at 45 degrees Currently 15mins into the boil Sparged and drew off a few litres that I put back through, worth was pretty clear I had planned to put the hops in hop bags but they have vanished so I've just chucked them in the pot Could do with a longer p...

After sitting down and reading the gf instructions I realised I hadn't put the pump on

Kicked it into life and soon the temp dropped to about 61 degrees the heating element soon kicked in and brought it up to the set 67 degrees in no time

I've got my stock pots heating sparge water

Well all best made plans go out the window in battle I had set mash water temp to 75 degrees thinking grain would suck lots of heat out, but only down to around 72 degrees Anyway mash was really thick so I have added 8 litres of cold water to get me down to target 67 degree mash temp I'll take this ...

Well all best made plans go out the window in battle I had set mash water temp to 75 degrees thinking grain would suck lots of heat out, but only down to around 72 degrees Anyway mash was really thick so I have added 8 litres of cold water to get me down to target 67 degree mash temp I'll take this ...

I brewing a exceedingly good ipa cascade from the homebrew shop I'm not sure if the instructions are really related to the Grainfather, it refers to draining to your boiler I'm going to be mashing in 12 litres of water at 67 degrees and then need to top up after an hour with 8 litres of water at 80 ...

Well I'm using my Grainfather for 1st time, just running some pbw through it as we speak 7 litres of water and 50 grams pbw At first I put water in, within 2 seconds of putting heat on to test it all died It was fitted with a 3 amp fuse, Hopefully that's only scare for the evening Will keep you post...

Sounds very very high ratio, is that a typing error or have you really put 6grams in per 500ml I can see you ending up with gushers that will hit the ceiling when you uncap and churn up all the yeast sediment in the bottle or maybe even a bottle bombs at worst here. Most I have read say around 6-7 g...

Well it's not turned up today maybe tomorrow

No ive got to be good, graincote is on my list though

Got an email today saying it's been dispatched, can't wait very excited, not told the misses yet.
It's a lot of money I'm trying to convince myself it was a good move. The reviews seem good.

I was on the AHA website the other night and read an article on there, the writer was basically saying buy milling your own you can get more consistent results on grain crush. More so if you was going to different suppliers for crushed malt. So potentially reducing the amount of variables that go in...

I was on the AHA website the other night and read an article on there, the writer was basically saying buy milling your own you can get more consistent results on grain crush. More so if you was going to different suppliers for crushed malt. So potentially reducing the amount of variables that go in...

There is so much info on Jim's, never seen the Normans recipes before