Jim's Beer Kit

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Thu Oct 18, 2018 9:20 am

I'm thinking of an ink bird. Which model do you recommend.

What do you want to use it for?

I use one as a temperature controller for a fridge with a heater in it. Works well for that, loads of info on how to do that on the internet if you need. Nowadays a company called Inkbird make a ready made controller for the purpose, available on Amazon, probably cheaper and simpler to get one of th...

I leave the bottles on the tree overnight and bottle the following day. Had no problems.

If you capped the bottle and the bottle was sterile at that point it should stay sterile forever.

http://www.pasteurbrewing.com/pasteur-s ... xperiment/

For the latter - get a daughter.

I had a similar problem a while ago with a very similar false bottom. A very frustrating brew day which saw me scooping out the mash into a muslin bag and making a temporary straining bucket. Fortunately the resulting brew was very good. I eventually realised the problem was to do with not enough s...

Swirl the water around periodically as it comes to the boil, stops layering.

What's to stop tasting the beer after it's made and adding some or all of the powder into the bottling bucket with primings if you think it's needed?

Dissolved first or you might have problems with nucleation and foaming!

Silas, Does the instructions indicate which is which? One of them may be bittering hops (25gEKG?) and the other flavouring hops (15g Fuggles?). Use all of them. The bittering hops I would do as WA suggests and the fuggles could be used as a flavouring hop, simmer for 10 mins or you can also blitz t...

I'm sure Tom Caxton (purchased from Boots) was the first beer I ever made, in around 1980. As I recall it was horrible but I'm sure it's got better since, definitely no sachets of hips in those days.

I made Koyte once, which has 50% malted oats. Worked fine, though I did do a Beta Glucan rest (amongst others).
Some facts (?) here...
http://scottjanish.com/case-brewing-oats/

Here are some links to articles on how salts in the water affect mash pH and flavour perception. These are links I bookmarked for myself, I haven't tested them so may be broken. I like the Bru'n Water calculator, it's a little complicated but comprehensive. https://sites.google.com/site/brunwater/wa...

, My current favourite for bitter is Lallemande ESB, which many appear to dislike. What is your take on Lallemand ESB? I have used it once, fermented it clean, and it was an absolute bitch to clear - multiple doses of gelatin and very extended cooling. But it cleared in due course and turned into a...

Weak beer is probably the hardest to get right, I pretty regularly make sub 4% bitter, here's my thoughts. Keep it reasonably simple, don't need loads of malts. Use a high mash temperature to keep some unfermented sugars in the beer, I mash at 69C. Use a yeast that will leave some unfermented sugars...

Not remotely cheap https://www.angelhomebrew.co.uk/en/taps-and-fittings/92-12-bsp-skin-fitting-deck-fitting.html I think Angel Homebrew actually do a drain kit. ebay? I searched "skin fitting" Some of the entries give a choice of sizes if you open them, dunno if 1/2" BSP is in there. Sometimes it's ...