Jim's Beer Kit

You can see about when in this thread I had turned on stupid "caramelising" ideas for creating Invert Sugars/Syrups): https://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=83681&start=30#p862962 So, it was quite right in that off-site thread to have noticed I was changing my mind: Because I was! A...

PeeBee, I think you should have a look into the other other forum… :D https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/english-ales-whats-your-favorite-recipe.472464/page-126?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-11-21&utm_content=daily_newsletter#post-10315079 Thanks very much. Cor! ... The...

Sorry it's not SS Brewtech it's Blichmann QuickCarb https://www.blichmannengineering.com/quickcarb.html As per the original post, this is not an item I would've bought for myself as it's a bit in the pricey side. MM want £280!!! Although it can be bought a good deal cheaper elsewhere (e.g. Geterbre...

I ended up with a F G of 1.019. I really liked the taste even with the higher ending. Now I know what I'm dealing with. Next time I'll mash at a lower temperature and for a longer time. I'll also be using a yeast that normally ferments lower. All the time I've been using Chevellier Malt I've been a...

Hi PeeBee, ... :thumbsup: "Hardness": I've found evangelising over its deserving demise to be a subject for in another forum, so I'm saving you and most forumites here from all that. It was that Mr Pheonix-Analytical who originally started me off with that! The Fauld Crater: Scary! I suppose not be...

No-one could answer this? Probably too late for ARNWD who'll have sorted it by now, but I only use the ones with a "clean" lever. The lever just disengages the "demand" mechanism, so it doesn't interfere with flow. Handy if you want to pump (push) cleaning fluid through it and through the downstream...

Eeee ... cracking stuff Eric. I've been keeping mum here recently, well you know my opinions of "Hardness", and no-way was I going to turn your essay into a bun fight. But all this talk of Burton-on-Trent did have me remembering being a scruffy urchin looking over the river plains to Burton-on-Trent...

... particularly as my memory has been fading rapidly of late, with age or other things? ... What you on, Eric? Only yesterday I was being told at Hospital if you think something like that is going to happen, it won't be. If you are totally unaware it's going to happen, it will, and you'll have no ...

I may await your verdict. I've been toying with getting some No.19, but I'll probably cave-in and get Plumage-Archer instead. The brews I'm currently planning are http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2023/09/lets-brew-1968-fullers-london-pride.html (bit borderline to pass off as "best bitter") and his...

... Place your bets please. All currency as pints of beer when we next meet (eh ... :-? ). After ages and ages ... Didn't get an update of the "basic values" of water analysis from Dwr Cymru, but Neil at Pheonix Analytical recently did an analysis of my water. Calcium levels did increase beyond pre...

Now here again... we come down to good design or designer who doesn't know the first thing about the product usage. ... Nothing to do with how good, or not, the pump is. A good reason for me not to start mucking about with it. But it is interfering with readings the sight glass. What I've done to (...

But: Not having opened the pump I'm only guessing how it functions. If a simple open impeller (magnetically or direct driven; undoubtably magnetic driven on a pump this size 'cos it doesn't involve all that sealing caper) the fluid levels in boiler and sight-glass would be the same. If a sealed impe...

Sight-glasses on boilers is odd too. All that unboiled wort dumped in your fermenter. This way you do get the option to cycle the unboiled bit into the boiler. But the pump plays havoc with getting a reliable reading off the sight-glass (when the pump is running, it is of course impossible to use th...

... It was filled with 22 litres, give or take a couple hundred milliliters, at about 90°C (some heat is lost during filling, so don't expect 100°C to be going in). 84°C represents 1% shrinkage, so cooled to ambient the sealed cube now holds (a further 3% shrinkage, four in total) about 21.34 litre...

As a treat I'll include this snippet of a spreadsheet I use to predict the volumes I'm making. It's used to supplement "Beersmith" (my chosen recipe builder) to cover bits it doesn't cover. This might explain why I'm putting so much effort into my "no-chill cubes". I need this predictability of fina...