Jim's Beer Kit

There's something very wrong there. For some reason, you haven't had any fermentation. Possibilities: 1. Yeast was dead on arrival in the wort 2. Brew has been at too low a temperature (18 - 22C is needed for most yeasts). Depending on the conditions it's been stored in it may have gone off by now (...

I would say you should raise the temperature once initial vigorous fermentation is dying down.

The idea is to get the initial stages of fermentation done at the lower temperature (to reduce excessive 'fruity' flavours) and to raise temperature to ensure fermentation gets fully completed.

Moved to the correct subforum.

Nitrogen is used for wine on kegs. It doesn't sparkle the wine. You learn something new every day! :) Anyway, it prompted me to have a quick google with this interesting and informative result (even though they're talking about commercial use, it looks like good info for home use as well) - https:/...

For storage any inert, sealed container is fine for storing wine. However getting it out of a cornie would involve using gas under pressure, so the wine would likely get a bit sparkly. If you're doing sparkling wine, that's fine, but still wine would be another matter.

It'll be some sort of gunge stopping the tap closing properly.

Found this video of the type of breakers that I was talking about - the video shows them breaking a normal load current of 150A. Imagine those breaking a fault current 10 times higher! https://youtu.be/yDyy5LtSaQo When I was an apprentice I worked in the shop next door to where they made those; they...

.............. Ps Why did you need to test the lines to 2,000 amps? The gear I worked on was protection equipment designed to measure currents and voltages of overhead transmission lines in the electricity grid and operate the circuit breakers to switch off the power automatically (and very quickly...

Wonderful. I can't begin to imagine what 150 amps is like. Certainly enough to blow your socks off! Guy When I worked in the labs at Reyrolle many years ago, I used to work with the primary injection rig. It could put out 2000 amps (3 phase) to simulate a fault on a transmission line. The cables we...

Actually, this page here is the how-to https://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/extract_method.htm

We also have a section on that here - https://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/extract_equipment.htm

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Generally speaking untreated hard water isn't necessarily good for any type of beer - it depends on what's in it. Alkalinity is a better guide.

I'll point you to a link that might be helpful, but also: welcome to the forum!

https://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/water_treatment.htm

Thanks for the update James.

I used my old 70s brew bins from Boots until relatively recently, so they can last a long time.

Probably not a great idea though, as they get a lot of scratches in them from cleaning, so I wouldn't recommend it; especially as new ones are quite cheap.