Jim's Beer Kit

This more recent https://youtu.be/6YXVjf6-mM8

https://youtu.be/mK4s5v3tidg
A very old thread but for anyone interested I’ve just found this and watched with a miss of glee and sadness!
I never got to visit the place before the brewing moved and the pub has recently been demolished!

A long time ago but merry monk was good but I particularly liked chesters dark mild Remember thinking it looked like Guinness!

Great revisiting for a read!

Enjoying this thread!

Thanks very much for your advice guys!

I have lots of blackcurrants, gooseberries and wild plums( similar to damsons) in the freezer and wondered if anyone could advise how to go about putting a recipe together for individual fruit wines! I did use some of the fruits along with blackberries and elderberries last year but the wines turned...

Thanks!

Ive tried twice now and despite using three bottles with a good bottom covering of yeast I've had no success! I presume the bottles must be pasteurised after conditioning, it's getting harder to get a good, healthy bottle conditioned beer with a useable commercial yeast I think, certainly here in Ir...

Has anyone had any success propagating moorlands hens tooth yeast? If so what traits does the yeast carry through to your ales? I'm looking to brew a bodies clone but I really don't think the malt and hops alone are going to give me what I'm looking for and the last wheats vial I used ,although very...

How did this turn out?

COSHH !

Apparently it's a well made beer up until it leaves the conditioning vessels where all sorts of adulterations are then visited upon it! If it's brewed as we would do it at home you'll end up with a very good ale! I do like the strisslespalt hops and I do recall having a few grand cru that was extrem...

Oh!!!!
Didn't realise!