Jim's Beer Kit

Jim wrote:I don't use an airlock for beer - it's not necessary imo.

Hi Jim

Does this mean you're OK about air hitting your beer before racking? Or does it mean you have confidence in the CO2 layer on top of the beer keeping it safe?

Guy

My technique is to chuck them in the King Keg after racking. Super simple!

Guy

One good thing about colder weather is it allows me to cool my beer in the FV before racking into a King Keg. Not something I've been able to do before for all sorts of complicated reasons. What I'm discovering, though, is the water in the airlock is sucking back into the FV as the brew cools. Not s...

Crushing your own seems fun and a bit fundamentalist. But getting the right crush can be difficult--so I've heard. 25kg of malt makes about 5 brews. Three months or so of brewing. I've never lost efficiency during this time. When a sack of malt arrives from the Malt Miller, having been crushed the p...

Ah yes. Thanks. Embarrassingly simple when you know how!

I'll print out the PDF, laminate it and stick it on my brew room wall.

Thanks again.

Guy

Ah, now I'm not so sure about the converter. Either the online or table one.

When I look into my refractometer the scale shows me a Brix reading of 13 is in line with a gravity reading of 1.051. The conversion table above, and the online converter give me 1.053.

Any thoughts, gentlemen?

Guy

The online calculator is superb--thanks Charles1968. It's in my favourites list now.

Guy

It may be worth trying it without the racking arm. It's difficult to understand what benefits the racking arm gives in a brewbucket.

Without the racking arm the beer will still flow freely but there will be less tendency for the flow to disturb the yeast sediment--I think!

Guy

Pinto wrote:Chronical Fermenter ? Sounds like something that brings lagering period down to 0.5 seconds via the use of gravitational anomalies... ?

And the outlandish use of temporally enriched quarkons, of course!

Guy

It's got 5 gallons in it, which equates to 6 US gallons.

Not too fussed about not having the airlock on. It must have a nice protective blanket of CO2 over the beer.

Guy

My shiny 7 gallon Chronical fermenter arrived a short while ago. Lovely thing to look at! It's now got a 1.053 ale in it. It was brewed on Friday and by yesterday, Saturday, was bubbling merrily through the airlock. Now it's gone mad. Yeast flowing through the airlock! I unclipped the lid and saw th...

As other's have mentioned the SG scale (if accurate) is only valid before fermentation as alcohol distorts the figures, but there are tables to compensate for this I use a printout of an Excel calc sheet that's a modified version of one that originally came from the More Beer site Thanks--I think! ...

Definitely a keg!

Guy

Very confused by the pumps available for home brew, so all advice would be welcome. I've hunted about on the forum, but haven't found any answers yet. I need to be able to pump wort from a bin on the floor into my FV at a height of about 2 metres. Some pumps say not self priming. Do I need to suck t...

Thanks all

Today's boil was very vigorous. The lid was tilted on the boiler so all the steam could escape. Interestingly (to me, anyway!) the liquid lost during the boil was exactly the same as with a more gentle boil. About a gallon an hour. Must mean something, but I'm not sure what!

Guy