Meet the JBK Team!

[Jim]

Name: Jim

Role: Site Admin

Started Brewing: 1973 (no, really!)

What do I Brew?:
Beer: I'm a big fan of traditional English bitter and most of my brews are somewhere near that style.
Wine: In the past I brewed both kits and country wines (my rice and raisin was legendary - it could fell a rhinoceros); I'm hoping to get back into that soon

Current Brewing System: Full Mash, 5 gallons

Equipment List:

Home made false bottom Mash Tun
Bought Spinney sparger
33 l Stainless Steel electric boiler
30 l Plastic Fermenter
Plethora of plastic buckets
2 x Cornelius Kegs
Several Plastic HB kegs
1 x Cask (pin)
Pub gas system with 2 secondary regs
Beer Engine
Cornie Lever tap

Shininess factor: 20%

Next Planned Brewery Upgrade: Set up cask breather system for beer engine.

[Horden Hillbilly]

Name: Dave, aka Horden Hillbilly.

Started Brewing: 1981.

What do I brew: Beer & Lager using the all grain method. Red, Rose & White wine using kits.

Equipment list:

Beer:
Hop & Grape all grain brewing system.
Four King Keg pressure barrels.
240 beer bottles stored in crates.
Widget gas system for the King Kegs.

Wine:
2, 5 gallon fermenters.
8, 1 gallon demijohns.
Harris filter kit.
Wine racks to hold 128 bottles.

Shininess factor: 0%, & I'm more than happy with that.

Next planned upgrade: Nothing at the moment.

My brewing website:

http://uk-homebrew.tripod.com/

[Aleman]

Name: Aleman aka A leMan aka Tony
Started Brewing: 1980.

What do I brew: Ales & Lager using All grain/Extract/Kits. Cider , Used to make wine using kits.

Equipment list:

Beer:
150L Pico system consisting of 100l Nordic pot (HLT, 50 and 80L Thermoboxes Mash Tun, and a 150L Gas boiler. . . .Also run it in HERMS Configuration
20L Electric Femto system consisting of 4 Thermoboxes

My brewing website

I have the habit of collecting brewing forums, having just set up a public brewing forumfor The Craft Brewing Association which I am Chairman and web master of. I have worked for Matthew brown prior to the sale to Heineken, and also do consultancy for craft breweries in the UK.

[orlando]

Forum Name: Orlando aka Ashley

Started brewing: 1974 only kits uniformly rubbish so stopped until 2011 and went straight to AG.

Brew styles: 90% of what I brew could be described as English and appears to be narrowing.

Equipment list: is pitiful compared to most but alarming to SWMBO.

3V system capable of making 40+ litres but typically 25l. Mostly kegged in to 6 X 23l Chinese Cornies (incredibly good kegs). Dispensed from a Keezer that has a permanently mounted genuine Pegas tap for bottling or dispensing. Yeast handling about to include a laminar flow hood.

Dedicated brew space includes cellar for kit and separate cellar for dispense.

Upgrades: All stainless by the end of this year

[Monkeybrew]

Name: Stefan aka Monkeybrew

Role: Moderator

Started Brewing: 01/01/2011 (SWMBO bought me a starter kit for Xmas, little did she know what she had started! )

Brewing Types: Mainly adapted Kits, 3V All Grain, a few Extracts and a few small scale BIAB's

Brew Styles: 50/50 English/American Ales, with the odd Lager & Belgian brew thrown in.

Brewing Equipment: Homemade (non-shiney) 3V AG Setup with a capacity up to approximately 30L, but usually brew to 23L, Temperature Controlled Brewfridge & Various size FV's & Bottling buckets, as well as 3 x plastic PB's.

Planned Brewery Upgrades: Copper sparge rail, solar pump & 60L HLT build.

2014 Plan: To have a basic understanding of water treatment & brew less kits and more AG.

[themadhippy]

Name: Madicus Hippicus

Started Brewing :First go around 1980 ,second go around 1992,then got seriously hooked about 6 years ago

What do I Brew?: Beer from kits and all grain.Wine,mainly from the reduced fruit and veg isle in the supermarket

Current Brewing System: pimped buffalo
Equipment List:
pimped buffalo
2 budget pressure barrels
4 fermenting buckets
bench capper
wort cooler
lots of bottles
6 demijons

Shininess factor: 94.493683%

Next Planned Brewery Upgrade: Recirc/sparge system,for some reason ive been closely looking at urinal spray bars
Wish list: enough room for a tempreture controlled fermenting chamber

[Andy]

Name: Andy

Role: Site Admin

Started Brewing: 2005

What do I Brew?:
Beer: Mostly traditional English ales but have brewed a few American styles.

Current Brewing System: Full Mash, 50 litres

Equipment List:

Thermobox conversion mash tun - 50L
75L Brupaks stainless boiler with 2x3kW elements
60L plastic HLT with 3kW element
too many Cornelius Kegs
1 x Cask (pin)
Pub gas system with 2 secondary regs
Beer Engine


Shininess factor: 60%

Next Planned Brewery Upgrade: Use the plastic cask!