Jim's Beer Kit

Just done one by accident. I used EKG for a small amount of bittering then EKG and Cascade at 15 mins. The yeast was Youngs beer and wine yeast (it is my emergency stock yeast for general purpose use) Accidentally fermented about 24C and has turned out like Wells Banana Bread!

You will be making a pale ale which may convert your lager mates..............be careful, you will end up supplying their new found taste!

Thanks guys. I found some SO4, rehydrated it and then went for my emergency Youngs yeast. The SO4 just didnt look or smell right. It was after all a repackaged one from the malt miller and err, ah hm, dated 2010 :shock: The runnings from the boiler were as clear as some finished beer I have made. By...

Well you may have noticed I haven't been on much for a while...............err O.K. never mind. Today was an impulsive brew an will be using the last of some old ingredients which I would normally shudder at the thought of people using. I'm frightened to admit just how out of date the stuff is, but ...

Ive all but given up on early hops... That's interesting. I understand that a long hops boil provides the natural gram-negative preservative effects, in addition to bitterness flavors. Do you drink through your batches pretty quickly? Have any of these batches sat around for awhile, and if so, did ...

Just get one..............they're ace!

Ive all but given up on early hops. I tend to use quite a lot of late hops and make light beers, so I get almost all the bittering I need late on. When I do use early bittering, I go for whatever is around and the most economical by using high AA.

One day time lag

Brilliant.........all my brewing (well most) is thrown together recipes, usually stuff I know will work though! Don't let anyone tell you to reduce the cascade by 5g or move one of the hops to a different boil time

I'm looking forward to the results

This has been bottled/barrelled for about 2 weeks now.I have, of course, been drinking it for about 10 days. It is now 90% clear and tastes good. It's better from the bottle than the barrel. I set 3 litre aside and heavily dry hopped it. I will try these in a couple of weeks. I would certainly do so...

I also use beer (sometimes water) as little as 200ml is possible

Do it now. It will probably be fermented out in 4 to 8 days. If you really want to let it stand to clear a little then leave it for 10 to 20 days then bottle/barrel. That way it will be ready when you get home. If I was doing it, I would be drinking it before your holidays. I have started drinking a...

Right then! I made the Fixby last night and it is busy fermenting away now. The aroma was similar to a lightly hopped AG. It's showing promise at the moment and, of course, it's dead simple to knock together................not sure it's worth four times the cost of an AG for the convenience though. ...

The tap has stood the boiling water many times over. I wouldn't actually boil the tap though as it does soften slightly. I always allow it to cool after running the boiling water over it before operating it.

I trickle boiling water over the tap just before I draw anything through which I am going to use. The tap is stripped and sanitised at the start of every brew. I identified a fermenter tap as the source of a repeat infection some years ago. It's the only part of my kit with "corners" for crap to lur...