Jim's Beer Kit

or go the whole hog and get a 9litre corny :D The trouble is it all gets a bit expensive with the taps, gas regulators and so on… So worth it though :D I've invested in a neoprene 'keg' jacket now for the summer :twisted: I fill growlers from the keg too, they work just as well but the downside you...

My Prima Donna (First Gold) has emerged from the ground...

Quick question – Why don’t you lager / condition in the corny keg and when it’s ready to drink transfer to bottles? It’s the way I do it with my lagers and I get really good results.

Just wondering if you are wanting to bottle condition for a particular reason?

SS brew tech has advantage of no work to put together as well. What size brew length are you doing to not get the rolling boil? I already have the induction hob. Though I am going to have to brew outside so gas could be an option. I BIAB so I usually brew anything from 19 - 25 litres (volume in to ...

angel, powell, malt miller, brewuk all described the pots as not working with induction. although powell say the pots are bergland. and bergland pots on here are seen to work. All very confusing! Currently thinking either: - buy 15 gallon brewtech SS and have done with it. they are narrower than ot...

Oh dear! The other way (not to crash cool) is to leave it connected to a blow off solution, which I found to my cost once. Nearly half a litre of star san was sucked into my 3L starter DJ :oops: Did this @ the weekend #-o in a rush leaving the house and forgot to remove the blow off tube. Luckily o...

My grain doesn't specify it's floor malted (the Malt Miller has both). No idea if it's fully modified. Perhaps I'll do a step mash anyway. I'd just go for the standard Bohemian Pilsner he sells (http://themaltmiller.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=109) unless you want to go through the extra ...

sbond10 wrote:Really liking the looks of this stop tempting me ha

If it comes out any good i'll give you a shout near Christmas and try and get a bottle up to you

Thanks for that. The brulosophy link was very interesting. I don't think I'll bother step mashing. How much Melanoidin malt do you add? My grain bill is solely 5000g of Bohemian Pilsner Malt. On my last Pilsner I used 2.5% melanoidin and 97.5% pilsner malt and it came out really nicely. Not saying ...

I am planning on making a pilsner for the first time. My recipe suggests mashing as follows: Mash at: 50c for 20 mins 65c for 30 mins 70c for 30 mins Mashout at 76c for 10 mins I can do this OK using the Grainfather but is there any real point? Also, I'm planning on fermenting at 12 deg C. I unders...

Brewed this for my Christmas stocks. It’s finished fermenting, so the last additions of the Apples will be getting added in the next few days. Found the recipe in Novembers BYO magazine and made some slight tweaks. Fingers crossed this will turn out okay…first time using fruit in a beer. Looking for...

2 weeks in the keg and this is tasting superb

If you add the apples without them being boiled I would think you are definitely going to get wild cider yeasts which could munch trough all remaining sugars leaving it totally dry ie FG 1.000. Thank you for all your replies :) Spent a bit of time reading up on this. Adding fruits to the boil relea...

sbond10 wrote:Well there's only one way to find out send us a bottke if you ever brew it

Grains have been ordered so i'm committed now

I'm guessing the high abv is caused by the apples and there's only so much the yeast can get thru of the apples sugar like milk stout plus you want sweetness not tart dryness like cider in an apple pie. That’s what I don’t understand. It calls for the bulk of apples to get added at the end of the f...