Jim's Beer Kit

I took a sample of the stout today and I'm happy with the gravity. It reached the target F.G. of 1.012. giving an ABV 0f 4.1%. What I'm not quite as happy with is how cloudy it is or how light it is. It really is a light brown. I know my homemade invert no 3 is probably too light but I suppose to ge...

Thanks Eric You're right, the website is a pain to navigate but looking through google, I found the following https://www.ragus.co.uk/product/brewingsugars/# This confirms that invert is available as a syrup and as a solid block. I wonder if the taste is identical and whether it would ever be possib...

I believe their process dissolves appropriate cane sugars (sucrose) in heated water, then hydrochloric acid is added to achieve a specific pH. When inversion is complete, the acidity is neutralised with sodium bicarbonate. For solid block the syrup is then seeded with fructose. Wow, complicated pro...

Yes I have Ragus Brublock #3 invert. It has the taste and consistency of fudge. I’ve made my own invert sugar and it’s not the same imo. I've made inverts 1-3. I brewed a Bateman's XXXB with the number 2 and thought I'd nailed the flavour. I guess replicating no's 3 & 4 is going to be pretty diffic...

I’d guess that your invert sugar isn’t as dark as the real thing. I know that the stuff I got does give plenty of colour. Do you have the real thing? I'd love to get my hands on the proper stuff but living in Switzerland, it's not all that practical. Homemade is the only way to go. I'm sure the dif...

Here's the rest of the pics I thought I'd attached. I'm useless at this thing

Was a reasonably good brew day but the sparge was a nightmare. I fly sparge - normally takes me around an hour to an hour and a half but this time, it took well over two. The flow was really playing up. Could never get a trickle - it was either full on or bugger all. I began to wonder if I'd end up ...

64C seems a low mash temperature for a stout - you won’t get the body of a stout, especially with that sugar to thin out the body even further. I’d expect the FG to be more like 1.008 You're right - the original recipe is 65°C, which is still really low but there's quite a few old recipes from the ...

I'm having a go at doing a war time brew today. Always been curious what beer during the war was like. This one is from Ron Pattinson's War! The recipe is remarkably similar to the 1940 porter (which I didn't fancy brewing as it was under 3%) Anyway, here are the figures 19L Start gravity 1.044 expe...

If it getd more of us brewing, we can change the date. Jinjahbiscuit has the same problem

is there still any interest in this brewalong? I know what you mean. It seems to have died a death :shock: I should go back through the thread and check and see who is interested So far we have Fuggled Mind Jinjahbiscuit Cerbera84 GuyPettigrew (are you in?) Supergreenmini Hairy Biker Hogarth chefga...

I had my first Old Peculiar yesterday, and made a beef casserole with the other bottle - very nice; not my usual style I love cooking beef with beer. I've discovered that strong malty beers work best and even better is a 50/50 mix of beer and beef stock. Never cooked with Old Peculiar but it sounds...

I attempted to make some invert sugar today. It's quite dark, no idea about any "standard" colour grades, but darker than tate and Lyles golden syrup, and quite lighter than their black treacle. I've probably got about a pound and a bit (600g or so). Roughly. I used my wife's portable Tefal indutio...

I attempted to make some invert sugar today. It's quite dark, no idea about any "standard" colour grades, but darker than tate and Lyles golden syrup, and quite lighter than their black treacle. I've probably got about a pound and a bit (600g or so). Roughly. I used my wife's portable Tefal indutio...

I'm up for Gales Festival Mild or Old Peculiar. Gales Festival Mild 1.054 1.012 24IBU 85% pale malt 5.5% black malt 3% crystal 1.5% torrified wheat 5% white sugar (I'd use a homemade invert no 3) Bittered with Fuggles Fuggles for aroma Old Peculiar (this is taken from an older edition of GW's BYOBRA...