Jim's Beer Kit

After some guidance from a fairly well known brewer, I have been able to get the inner bag out of the keg.

The idea is to use the keg not as a serving keg but as a FV (just need to check the PET bottle as such is sorta food safe.)

Managed to keg the beer today as its cold in the brewing room I have bought the keg into the house to naturally carbonate / condition for a week or so. (Looking good at the moment.) Will then transfer to the kegerator, pour a pint or so off to clear any sediment. fingers crossed in 4 or 5 weeks time...

I while ago, possible 7 years I used to use 20/30l PET kegs as an extra way of storing of beer, these kegs were just basically a large PET bottle with a female coupler which excepted a standard style keg connector, very easy to reuse. Recently a local bar said they had some Key Kegs so I thought I w...

Thinking cap on, the old grey matter isnt what it used to be. I am trying to remember how the old BM controller worked on the pump side of things from memory they would operate the pump and everyso often do a pump break during the mash recirc to let things settle. (much in the same way the new contr...

I have found the thread from when I made my BM with the Aussie controller, only 27 pages long :shock: Due to photobucket messing around all the photos have now disappeared, but there are still quite a few useful links in the the thread. https://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=62803&h...

Many moons ago the Australians look up the Aussie forums made a knock off original style BM controller this was possibly 6 years ago. New controllers can be bought from BM but your probably looking at a few hundred pound. The Aussie ones also had different connections so they would all need to chang...

IMHO there is quite a bit of flavour difference between UK and USA Cascade. UK Cascade are a more muted experience which can be an advantage depending on what you are trying to achieve in the final result.

I managed to pitch the yeast on Saturday afternoon and as expected it took off a few hours later. I have several packets of Crossmyloof dried yeast that I need to use up BBE Jun 2021 but like general food grocery items I tend not to take too much notice of (BBE) Best before end dates so just the one...

Hops, Boil and Campsite.

The MT & getting ready for the next burn

The night before brewday Getting the 1st brew of the day on Heating the Liquor

Brewing is going well. Alll targets hit so far. Didn’t start until 9am. Wort is now in the boiler waiting to boil.

Extremely mild day and night. In a tee shirt most of the day had to put a jumper on this evening though. Slight accident earlier managed to slip arse first into a very large puddle. Trousers are still hang in a tree to dry.

Sleeping bags have a comfort rating of 0 to 6c with an absolute limit down to -15c so if anything might be slightly too warm at night. I don’t mind the cold if it's dry so hope the rain stays away. Nothing worst than being stuck in a tent when it’s too wet to go outside even worse trying to get clot...