Jim's Beer Kit

Hi everyone Based on the conversation started on the Jim's ESB brewalong thread, is anyone out there interested in doing another? Though it's summer, the nights will soon be drawing in and it will be time to think about brewing dark and malty beers. I have to admit, I didn't have the time for the ES...

A winter warmer sounds good. There are lots of dark beers around 5% that could be winter-warmers. I brewed Graham Wheeler's Festival Mild and although mine was only 4.8%, it's a cracking pint. Never brewed it but something along the lines of Theakston's Old Peculiar would also be a good candidate. I...

I know the Hopback brewery used it in some of their recipes. I wrote to them asking for the recipe for their Winter Lightning and they use like a regular crystal malt. It has all the benefits of crystal but should aid in head rentention. Weyermann's carawheat is described as follows 'almost 100% car...

I'm late to this discussion but I can definitely confirm that you can use Weyermann's Vienna as a base malt totally 100% of the ingredients. I'm drinking a clone of Graham Wheeler's Bass mild subbing the mild with Vienna right now. I've brewed it a few times and it's not cloying at all, easy drinkin...

So ft I understand it right, if you want to use polenta in place of flaked corn/maize, it should be the quick-cook variety. Is that right?

Cheers

Jason

Love the blanket on your mash tun. Like you, I have some very fancy blankets that I use when mashing including an Iranian table cloth (that I managed to burn bloody big holes in with CRS solution). Looking good. Not tried hop bursting either. I often do FWH, not because I want to transfer aromas, bu...

Does anyone else have a problem with Barkley perkins site? When i go on i can't use the up down keys or the mouse? it just wont move on. It seems to be working fine for me but unholymess.com was working very,very slowly. Took my first sample from the FV yesterday. Has been in the cellar at 18°C for...

Thanks Regarding the invert, it was a bit of a faff in the beginning but it worked out quite well. I watched a lot of videos on youtube to begin with (some showing how to make homemade golden syrup and others for invert as used in catering - they all helped). The worst part is the beginning as it fo...

Tried Fuller's Past Masters OBE a while ago and really enjoyed it. It's not a taste you normally get with modern beers. A lot of the flavour comes from corn and sugar. I always wanted to have a go at brewing one of these and opted for a slightly weaker one from Ron Pattinson's book Peace. There is a...

Just a quick question.

Picked up a pack of these not so long ago and thought I'd put them in an oatmeal stout or possibly a dark mild. Has anyone else tried these?

Cheers

Jason

I always brew outside. A few years ago, just after adding the final batch of hops (2 minutes of the boil to go), I noticed what I thought was a huge grain swirling around. After fishing it out, it turned out to be an enormous blue bottle. I decided to make the 2 minute hop addition a 5 minute hop ad...

I like pale rye malt and every year, do a nice simple golden ale using 5.4% rye and the rest pale. It comes out a lovely dark gold. The last time I brewed this (a year or so ago), I split the base malt into two, half pale, half pilsner (43.7% each). Obviously it was a lot paler but still good. 5.4% ...

I always do a 90 minute mash - often longer if I'm doing other stuff. Keep telling myself I should try 70 minutes but haven't done so yet. 90 minutes is force of habit more than anything but so long as the temperature is right and you haven't got clumps from doughing in, you can be pretty sure you'v...

Was a productive brewday - if not a little hot. Spent way too long sparging but got very good efficiency from it. How Bestmälz pale turns out won't be too apparent until the beer is bottled but it seems lighter than Weyermann pale ale malt which is what I nearly always brew with. I changed the recip...

It's a rare day off and I thought I'd brew something. There's a new sack of pale in the house and I figured that a summer ale/pale ale would be the way to go. Last Wednesday, Ron posted the following recipe on ShutupaboutBarclayPerkins. http://barclayperkins.blogspot.ch/2016/08/lets-brew-wednesday-1...