Jim's Beer Kit

i'm busy at the moment working on our cider making festival 8) the festival will be on the 11 of november from 2 pm to 1 am . during all the fest it will be working demonstration of milling and pressing cider.( with 2 cider press :lol: ) exposition of more than 100 apple varieties, honey and bees pr...

this must be the biggest site of differents homebrewers: 182

http://www.brewzilla.nl/brewhalla.htm

are you in the list

bigster, just realised that your're from bristol ( ), so you may know the Cotswold brewery, if you plan to go to ask for the head brewer ( nick) it's a friend, i'm sure you could get some good stuff from him

Can you force carb in a King Keg PoP? I don't see why you couldn't. It's go the S30 (?) connection so you can use that. To be honest, I wouldn't care about force carbing. It has nothing to do with preference, just that for me it is easier to naturally carb. I'm with you POP 8) it's just easier to p...

i crush it with a valley mill and read somewhere:
- valley mill : 90 tours ( in french ! ) per kg
- phil's mill : 126
- corona : 325
don't know for the schmilding

you're very early on sunday morning( 7 am :!: ) I use on every batch Koppakleer tablet (6 gr/200 liters) wich is refined carrageenan. look at the excellent articl of "Murphy and Son" Murphy & Son Limited Alpine Street Old Basford Nottingham, NG6 0HQ Tel: 0115 978 5494 Fax: 0115 924 4654 email: info@...

i always try to improve what i do 8) it cost me 50 euros for one year and 10 euros for each day-training (for the meal at noon ! :) ) this is the best training of the cider making, at that price i can get all the informations that i need, plus the help of a cider oenologue, who can also analyse the ...

i'm going to a training cider next monday
learning how to improve my cider making, there will be 5 days of training until next may, i'm looking forward to

When i brew with my own hop, i use the lower alpha, last week i read somewhere that it's better to use the higher alpha when it's home hop
this could be right cos i found my beer more hoppy than i was expected

have a nice day tomorrow

my last brew:
93% PALE
6.5% crystal
0.5 % chocolate
1rst hop HNB and late fuggle
yeast: nottingham

it looks very good

how are you going to manage the hop if don't know the variéty and the AA

i've look at their prices too, and it's x3 what i paid at Tuckers(445£/tonne)

I'm going to harvest mine tomorrow, but i'm not so happy than last year with it (didn't have enough time to look after )
the columbus didn't grow well, but the Hallertauer magnum is very good (they've very big cone, double size), i'll get also some saaz

What are the varieties you've got

does anybody has harvesting his hop, or are all the hop been destroyed by the slugs, pests and deseases in UK ?

good luck DRB
I'm just finishing mine

I agree with Bigster, i think your recipe is a low IBU , is that about 16ibu ?