Jim's Beer Kit

I managed to get from my water supplier the range of figures they get for for a testing period so I could get some idea of my water profile over time. As you can see they are all over the place. This water comes from Severn Trent. This is the results of their latest testing period. 01/01/2013 – 30/0...

In a word.. Cascade. Didn't like it at all.

Put in less sugar, you can always put more in later but you can't take it out.
I always found that recipes tend to have too much sugar and put in less myself.

I know a lot of people seem to slate Target hops but have you tried them instead of N.Brewer, I have used Target pellets for bittering and dry hopping to great success (in my opinion!).
Readily avaliable as pellets.

vacant wrote:I've had a Waddingtons & Duval water butt tap on my boiler since day one. 50 plus brews and still no leaks.

Same here, had the above taps on my old cool box mash tun and still got one on my boiler and been fine for years.

What you need are the old fashioned screw top quart bottles. I can get 80 pints bottled and cleaned up in under an hour.
Rinse out when finished with them, a squirt of starsan and they are ready for next time

Any chance of looking at some of these recipes please, this sounds rather interesting and I've been toying with the idea of a lager that isn't a lager :D Lager Two 14-05-13 Fermentable Colour Grams Ratio Flaked Rice 0 EBC 250 grams 2.7% Pale Malt 5 EBC 8860 grams 97.3% Hop Variety Alpha Time grams ...

I made had my stab at a imitation 5% ABV lager using 97% pale malt and 3% flaked rice, Saaz and Hallertauer hersbrucker for the hops. Used Gervin (Nottingham) English Ale Yeast and just fermented as normal. Turned out very good, several lager drinking friends approved of it.

If your water comes from the Mythe I got the following information from Severn Trent a couple of years ago. Severn Trent..Cheltenham South...Water Supply Zone ZGL09 I live near Stroud with a GL10 post code so hope they can be of use to anyone else in the area. These figures are in response to my ema...

rossa wrote:What's the drainage like on it? Slow enough?

No problem what so ever, runs well.

jimp2003 wrote:We still haven't weaned you off the Grevin then Richard?

Nope, if it's not broke don't fix it!

I have a freezer full of pellets I need to use so I don't think that would work Martin, I had considered the same thing myself and for whole hops you're right, it would work a treat but pellets would go straight through =/ Aye, might be time to look at the deller style ones Belter.... Deller, what ...

Belter wrote: doesn't work that well though. It was last minute and the shop only had a small tarp. Luckily it barely rained

Well the brolly works well, even though it rained steadily all day the brew went off with no problems and has been put to bed with a couple of Gervin Ale yeast.

Nice one Belter, even beats mine for simplicity!

I got one but I prefer to brew outside, easier to clean up and no condensation worries.