Jim's Beer Kit

Wonkeydonkey, You are more than entitled to express your opinion and I am glad that you have spotted an error in my writings. My error was not to check my source of information and ensure it made sense, which in retrospect it does not. I took the honey composition from a book by Ken Schramm The Com...

i did something similar with some grapes i had pressed with my feet, about 5lt, i got some powdered metabisulfite, i put in about 1/2 a tsp left it with lid on, 2 days later added yeast, nothing after 2 or 3 days, added more yeast. still nothing after 3 days. so i thought last try. i siphoned it int...

you could get hop oil for bittering other than that i think it would be a bit of hit or miss sort of thing boiling hops in water or with some dme added and have boil it down and add it at bottling, i think if i was to boil hops for an hr, i'd cool and add to fv/bucket and leave a few more days and t...

I'm not here to pick a fight, i'm here to learn, just like others are. anyhow, it was the fact that you posted the composition of your honey with and D and L glucose, which for those that dont know are left and right, i shall not go any deeper. and there was no mention of fructose.. i gave you a cha...

Sorry but I'm starting to think your full of Male cow manure.

I just smell an odur that in what you write.

double posts "Doh"

this explains the importance of the valve were talking about
you only need to watch up to 2mins

https://youtu.be/ZmtbMKJLUJo

what sort of gas bottle is it, ie from who. as said before thats a safety thing which pub gas botts don't have afaik you may have to fashion something to push on it when you screw on the reg . like a cone with a few holes. edit; i think its a residue pressure valve, ie if the main valve is left open...

Many thanks of all the positive comments. Message for Bigbud78. I regret that we do not have any means to accept on-line payments. I refuse to accept Paypal's T&C's and we are too small to use other payment methods. Most of our sales are to locals who either buy direct from us or via some local ret...

i'm not on here much, but i did get a video of my scratter in action, i will see if i can up it to my you tube account

i'm uploading it now not that you'll see much apart from it working

i'll edit this post with a link

cheers
edit....here
https://youtu.be/_hG4uZeZKP4

did the suggestions work ?

are you using a red bottle or a blue bottle ...propane or butane.

btw....spiders like to make there home and that can slightly block the air/gas intake

something wrong with your process or should i say processes, but where is, or are all the bits adding up to make it low

looks like your be walking us throu every step.

but dont worry most peeps have to iron out a few wrinkles here and there.

very good video, you made it look simple.
cheers

Ahh, the good old thread of,, the op does not bother to give all the info that would help get the right answer he needs. and peeps some how argue what's right an wrong.. This his homebrew there's ways and different ways. Which get you to the same place. The next thing we know the op comes back and s...

long answer, I dry all my home grown hops, it suits my needs...but what a pain.. dying and making sure there dry the strig holds more moisture. then it redistributes thus making the hops more moist. vac packing is good as it reduces the size of the packet. but if its an unknown I would not do to muc...