Jim's Beer Kit

MashBag wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:16 pm

Thoroughly. Hot, cold, soak & cip.

So in what way were the one(s) you tested "very poor"?

Guy

MashBag wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 22, 2023 5:29 pm

All of these purpose built "no rinse" sanitizers seemed very poor when I tested them

Fascinating. How many did you test, and how did you test them?

Guy

Try spraying it with quadruple concentrate Starsan or similar. May do the trick.

Guy

Excellent bit of kit, WA. I use one of these to mix the mash so there's an even temperature throughout.

As to aerating the wort, mine is run from the boiler to the FV in a slow steady flow. This creates lots of froth and seems to aerate it well enough.

Guy

Can we remove any, even the remotest, idea that pH of brewing liquor has influence on mash pH. Yes please!! A fun experiment is to run some water from the tap and measure the pH. Then come back 15 minutes later and do it again, then another 15 minutes etc etc. The pH changes every time, as the wate...

Impossible!

Guy

How's it going with the AMS, MashBag? I am not 'up' on water chemistry. Eric sorted me out. The buttery taste, wasn't the AMS, it was the brewing salts (DWB) addition. I was using too much. That too is now bang on. I adjust my liquor (for hoppy IPA) to 80ppm alk, as per Murphy's guides. Where on ea...

I use and can recommend AMS from maltmiller (it is from Murphy's)... unless there a reason for phosphoric acid? How's it going with the AMS, MashBag? Looking at your posts on the subject from September/October last year you didn't seem too impressed. You noted a 'buttery' and 'mineral' taste in the...

MashBag wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 23, 2023 9:11 am

Tbh I thought invert sugar was just sugar, water & an ammount of acid. I use citric (1g/1kg/1L off the top)

I also make a jar full of viscous uninverted chocolate syrup for bait from just white granulated.

Good grief. You have time to go fishing?!

Guy

Seems to have worked. Adding the Fuggle hops to the keg has livened up the taste of the beer.

Guy

I use the little hop canisters on fishing wire. No mess apart from taking the top off and shaking into a bin. Dip tubes and poppets block easily. Mine's a King Keg. I use a cask hop filter on the back of the tap. Stops the tap blocking. But then it should, shouldn't it, as that's what they're desig...

I have on occasion had a brew that needs fine tuning. As an alternative I've make up a hop concentrate and added that. Better flavour profiling imo & never fancied the mess of dry hopping. Plus I bottle all my brews, so it feels like another murky step to be cleaned up first. I suppose I could dry ...

On February 1st I brewed a fairly straightforward beer. It was 91% Maris Otter, 3.5% pale crystal malt, 5.5% Vienna malt. 43 IBU from 28% Azacca, 22% Amarillo and 22% White Grape hops, with another 25g of White Grape in after the boil to make 100%. Fermented well and was kegged at day 6, which was 8...

Eric wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:10 pm

Hardy and Hanson is HH from Brewlabs and the yeast in mine is B4.

How do I find these codes, please Eric? None of the yeasts, including the East Midlands yeast supplied by Brewlab, which could well be the Hardy and Hanson strain, have any codes I can see.

Thanks.

Guy

Ages ago I used to dry hop all my beers in the cask. Well, King Keg, actually!

Haven't done it for a long time, don't know why. A beer I brewed a few days ago will be ready for kegging very soon. Perhaps I'll give it a go, having read this thread. I always used about 20g of dry hops for 23L.

Guy