Jim's Beer Kit

Just bumping this, got some nice feedback/ideas/advice via PM from Alix and Simon. If the financing is there, almost anyone can start a brewery and brew beer. With homebrewing experience, that beer can be very good if not excellent. I think the most difficult task is to get that beer sold in the mar...

alix, 10bbl is commercially viable, apparently many people who start with only a couple of barrels say if there's one thing they'd do differently they'd start bigger because after even a few months one had to expand, or brew 24/7.

Good points. I am serious in a sense that I am not escaping or leaving behind another job at all, so it's all from fresh so there is no opportunity cost as regards to leaving a paying job. What I am leaving behind is - and this is out of my control - a recent divorce and thus sale of my house. So I ...

Thanks zgoda and what a good start for your company, well done.

How has the quality of beer delivered to your doorstep been, consistent?

Perhaps have a small brewery kit on a side, start introducing self-brewed beers little by little.

simon12 wrote:I could be interested in partnering and have a few ideas. PM me if you want a chat about it. I don't know where you are but I notice you have pictures in your link less than 5 miles from me (Redhill Surrey).

Simon, PM sent.
Cheers

To get into distribution it would be better to start brewing on contract basis. This will give you the most valuable experience. I'm sure you get brewing with relative ease. :) This is very interesting, would like to know more how contract brewing works, for instance I assume one forms a company to...

As I'm closing in at 50 I've started to think having some kind of a final push career move into brewing while I'm still able to move grain bags around, unassisted :lol: My initial plan is to hopefully get a job in a brewery in order to learn the ropes while looking at the business from inside while ...

I was using crystal malt that I bought almost four years ago. Stored in a dry and cool rodent-free environment. No problems.

I started mashing with 26L, sparged with 6-8L, after sparging when the boil started I usually had around 29-30L, ended up bottling around 22.5-23L but 2L on top of that is definitely possible with some adjustments ie adding more water to the sparge or boil.

Fido97 wrote:Looks like a nice ale but not much like TT landlord - way more hoppy.

All the the clone recipes I've seen target around 30-31 ibus, that's what the beer tastes too.

chris.pearse.9 wrote:Thanks very helpful will order the stuff and get brewing

That's the spirit! A proper can do -attitude.

Those numbers look dodgy. Sean Terrill's algorithm is apparently the best and using it 12.5 equals 1.048 and 6.5 equals 1.012, which then gives about 4.7% abv.

Whenever I'm in Belgium Rodenbach is my breakfast beer. When there I usually brush my teeth with it too. Lovely stuff.

ArmChair wrote:...
Im using Yorkshire Tap water and my friend is using Reading Tap water, nothing added!

Then we will compare the bottles, just a fun exercise

Yours will be better, Reading tap water is absolute rusty piss!

barry44 wrote:well, thanks for that

Just taking the piss, no offence meant. But clearly the back light or flash is not optimal and is making it look murky.