Jim's Beer Kit

Sweet, Clive La Penesee has a good section on hops in his book on Craft Brewing, nice looking hops btw.

My first two attempts at TC have quietened down considerably and I am planning to transfer to a secondary demijohn on Saturday (two weeks after initial fermentation), how long should I leave it in secondary and when should I bottle it?

Cheers,

Nice setup

My air stone sometimes does the same thing, but I have found that this is usually due to air escaping around the end of the hose, it may work if you push the airstone down into the tubing.

I have two gallons on the go aswell, had a look around my local Co-op and saw some apple and blackcurrant juice, trying that one on Saturday (my Dad always said that those old demijohns would come in useful).

DaaB wrote:It's nice when that happens, I picked up a couple of Wyeasts for 50p each back in Jan as the sell by date was up. I started the second of the two a few weeks ago.

If you check out the sticky in the tap room it explains how to up load pics.

Cheers Daab, Ill check it out.

You can get it from the Hop&Grape, I have used it before, quite nice

Used a Whitelabs WLP530 vial, the best before date on the packet read 10th March 07, I made up a 1ltr starter with this thinking that I would not get anything, how wrong I was! Wish I could post a pic of it but I have just noticed you don't have anyway of uploading directly :( Anyway, I have over si...

I use plastic kegs for serving weaker beers and glass bottles for my stronger ones. Works well for me, wouldn't mind getting a few cornies though.

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Why are you shouting :wink: . I always remember back in the day when I had a Woodforde Nog Ale, I didn't realise that you didn't need to add sugar to the wort, I used 1kg of a dark sugar (can't remember what it was now) and the beer turned out to be excellent, tasted a lot like a imperial stout that...

Excellent, I am going to keep my eye out on ebay from now on!

Proper Bo! Glad to see that you enjoyed it! I found that cooling down the hot wort before you add it to the main batch of water gives a better result, put the pot of hot wort in the sink and fill water up around it, that should soon cool it down then add it to the water.

My sentiments entirely. I still think you need to compensate for the thicker mash when brewing at home ; but perhaps only up to 90 minutes, but that's quite independent of what the old brewers did - I think their mashes were less thick and they boiled longer, and of course made a second and third b...

I've had the book for a couple of years but never tried making any, that will have to change pretty soon!