Jim's Beer Kit

I reckon we don't see a variety of 2 can or premium lager kits as they are harder to reliably get a good result : A lager HAS to give a crisp clean flavour or its just not a lager. A pale ale, bitter etc can come in all sorts of hues, weights flavors so what we compare a home brewed one to is far wi...

I've done a few [youtube][/youtube]of these with 1kg BKE. Made to 21L and fermented for 2 weeks then siphoned off and dry hopped for a week with 20g cascade and it comes out great!

I found centennial too bitter for dryhopping a light (5%) beer, mabe added too much tho

Cheers Seymour - i knew someone here would be knowledgeable enough to have a crack! I hadn't heard of Newports hops before, been interesting to read up on them. The only thing i could find online before was a grain kit from homebrewstuff.com but it quotes ABV at 6.3% and Bitterness at 72 doent match...

Anyone had a chance to try this in Wetherspoons? Its a dry, hoppy canadian pale that theyve got Banks to brew up a batch of and its been the best beer ive found in a pub for a long time. If any skilled chaps could guess at a recipe its something id very much like to clone ;-) https://www.jdwetherspo...

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If your current bearings are only lasting 6months then they are either made of cheese or have a harsh (wet?) environment - shielding will give a good improvement.

1.8kg John Bull lager kit plus 1kg BKE makes a great base for dry hopping into light ale
I normally buy a few sets each time Tescos have their 25% off sale (which have been fairly regular over the last year), so it makes a really dependable, and fairly chap, brew.

today ive just put a brew on using my big bag of cascade pellets - smells terriffic!

Well done for taking this on and getting it done.

I think the key thing here is to reduce heat that the fermenter loses in the first place: Insulate the sides with camping mat etc and the temperature throughout will be far more even.

link?

PM'd for some Cascade.

Replace the towel with a clean one and give the outside of the fermenter a wipe..
Otherwise that manky towel will become a fly magnet.

I made this once and its honking!

It tastes of really sweet, rough alcohol and that's about it. Tokk me over a year to pour the last demi John down the drain - there was no improvement and I just don't want to get pissed on rank tramp juice

yeah the WIFI update would definitely get me onboard, very keen to hear how it is progressing!

added some hops and put totals on front page.

Yup, I use a glass tea light holder. Probably the heaviest, most inert thing I could think of for going in the FV.