Jim's Beer Kit

I have also NOT brewed Orfy's recipe, I wanted to use up some hops (and to keep my lager-loving neighbor off the tap). Basically, I doubled all of the Golding adds. This one was in the primary for 3 weeks and was primed for the corny with about 1/2 cup of corn sugar. This is destined for the beer en...

Several months ago there was an article in BYO to make a simple/cheap filter: There are water filters that go inline with your shower head, take one of those and put it into a piece of PVC pipe with fittings for a hose on each end. The filter is good for about 1000 US gal, that should get you throug...

Come to think of it, you're probably going to be too intimate with the beers to objectively critique. Should we all send you our addresses? In the interest of science of course.

Monk, You're forgetting your mission. As a US member of the board who has tasted TTL (but surely have forgotten), you will need to bottle one of each and send them to me for comparison.':D' Heck, why not send me a six pack of each in order to have a good set of samples for a controlled test.':lol:' ...

I pour my wort over a plastic plate from the kiddie kitchen. I use standard plastic line and stop when I can't see floaties in the line when the valve is shut off. Takes no more than 3-4 containers and 3 minutes max.
I've never not done it, so can't compare.

No pressure. Just three pages of interested people.

I recently did a ten gallon batch (split into 2-5's) of American IPA, dry hopped one in the secondary for 2 weeks and dry hopped right in the corny on the other. Used about 28g Centennial for each. The dry hopped in the keg was the more oily and pronounced aroma but was fantastic. Hopped in the seco...

You know, most of the time I'm the only one who can taste the off-flavors, we are our own worst critics. I'll ask people to tell me what they really think. They seem to think honesty will get them cut off from the tap. The two flavors I've gotten rid of: band-aid, fermenting too hot. Didn't really h...

Monk,
You should be able to get another 9 lbs from Morebeer by the weekend.

Take one for the team and get a second batch going!

I've several Mason jar modifications to make a hopback on the net. Also, BYO magazine did an article on this. I'll try to dig it up. OK, here's one: http://www.bodensatz.com/staticpages/index.php?page=20020429191318951 Here's the pressure cooker: http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/551391106EN...

You might find this article on TTL interesting as well :wink: http://www.beerhunter.com/documents/19133-000066.html Two things: - I made the version with all GP and it had a great color and flavor. Much better than versions with crystal. My 2 cents - Michael Jackson is a league fan? May have to sta...

OK, the results are in. The chalky taste has disappeared from the first batch and is not at all evident in the 80/-. Chalk it up to being a bit young.

BTW, the Caledonian 80/- is outstanding!! No tweaks or changes. Great recipe.

Sounds great. I made the exact brew yesterday as well. Didn't take any reading as I have a pension for breaking hydrometers.

We'll have to compare notes in about three weeks.

I use beersmith. I'm able to enter all of your excellent recipes in metric and transfer them back to clunky gallons and ounces. I like it because of the interface, tried the others but wasn't satisfied. There are many spreadsheets available that are just raw formula based entry forms. Look at BYO.co...

Another weird Beersmith American here, going to do something almost exactly like this on Sunday to finish out my 3 beer yeast usage. I'm going to put about an ounce of Fuggles at the start and maybe 1/2 for aroma.