Jim's Beer Kit

My Chinook has gone bonkers this year. Picked the cones today and sent on their way to a local microbrewery for a green hopped ale...1 Plant kicked off 8kg of hop cones, is this a record? the lot has gone to a local brewery for a 5BBl green hop brew. Got a pin back in return. Gassing it up tonight ...

My Chinook has gone bonkers this year. Picked the cones today and sent on their way to a local microbrewery for a green hopped ale...1 Plant kicked off 8kg of hop cones, is this a record?

whacked it onto chill for 5 days at 1-3 degrees and added gelatin. yeast dropped out quite well but needed another dose when it went into kegs. Its dropping bright now in the kegs

I gelatined the FV...still like a muddy puddle so going to transfer to keg and add more gelatin

I've got a beer currently cold crashing at 4degrees..can anyone think of a reason why I shouldnt put gelatin in now or am I better advised to wait until I've got it in a keg?

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Sat Aug 12, 2017 7:25 am

Read my post on this thread. It is dead simple. I have been saving the same yeast for four years using this method.
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Excellent.. I think Ill try all methods to belt and brace

Ive done this a few times. Tap and vent the cask, keep checking the beer to make sure its running clear, as soon as it is (usually about 6 to 12 hours) Purge the Cornelius keg with Co2, attach a line from tap to cornelius keg and run at a trickle the beer down the inside of the keg, this should cut ...

Ive got a slant of a nice yeast and want to use this on a monthly basis. Which method of storage do you suggest? I can freeze it with glycerin or bung it in the fridge under beer. any other sugestions

I've bought a couple of bottles of Proper Job (St Austell Brewery) which I'm hoping to recover from. Belting pint on draft in North Devon and is a genuine bottled conditioned. Can't say whether it's conditioned with the fermenting yeast though - time will tell. Just checked on mysupermarket web sit...

I think the deep clean may have sorted the problem. I ran a hose pipe to the outlet and turned the tap on. the amount of old crud that came out of the hop filter was astonishing. Ive done a deep deep strong bleach run through. basically ran a brew with a strong bleach through pumps, fermenter, boile...

Had a look at my Chinook this morning..12 new shoots sprouting up..one is already a good 2 inches out of tb3 ground

Thanks...
I'll follow this. I've managed to get some caustic from a brewery mate and plan to do a run through with this and follow it with boiling water.
When it's brewday..Day after I'll run through with a thin bleach solution and follow it again with boiling water

Over the last few brews I've had a boiled cabbage taste to a few brews. This has knocked by brewing mojo sideways somewhat. Someone has suggested that I've got an infection somewhere or it could be DMS. So deep clean time. I've got a gap on Tuesday for a deep clean of everything. What do you recomme...

Rack it bright. Then serve through Beer engine with a tight sparkler

On a whim I bought some Hallertau Blanc hops on the understanding that they resemble Nelson.
I'm planning a single hopped pale with them and wondered what experiences peeps have had with them?