Jim's Beer Kit

IF I was doing a saison again though with lots of weird additions I would put these additions in a Muslin. I remember the orange pith being a slight pain right at the last couple of litres to pump out

Has anyone successfully used a pumped/recirculated hop rocket with pellets? I'm thinking of going this route but I'm concerned about potential blockages. TIA for any advice. I only ever use pellets straight in the boiler- no muslin bag. I’ve got a hop rocket and I’ve never once had an issue pumping...

Thanks foob4r for this, I can rest easier now

Hi, before I pump and send my wort through a plate chiller and into my fv I always send diluted chemsan from the HLT and though the hoses, pump and plate chiller. Now I always remove the hoses and shake out the chemsan and tip chemsan out of the chiller but the last time I brewed some of this chemsa...

Yeah it took us both by surprise! Nick was gutted initially when he read the pre boil gravity and we couldn’t understand how the second runnings pre boil gravity was exactly the same lol

Nick did a 2 hour boil where as I stuck to a 1 hr, he did boil a fair bit off tbf probably around 6 litres. Hydrometers calibrated to 20c and pre boil wort was about 30c

Hmm, pictures to follow once I’ve figured out how to add them

Well the day went perfectly! Started at 9 and I was home with a full fermenter at 5:30! It was really weird though as we both took pre boil gravity readings and they were both sat at 1.070 so we thought that the stronger brew (first runnings) had got really bad efficiency. Then the after the boil re...

I’m not sorry! 😂 I’ve got to lug my entire brewery over to my brother in laws house tomorrow for the big brew day, I suppose the benefit of doing it this way is it will speed the day up a bit! What exactly is the difference between a stout and a Porter? Is it that a Porter isn’t as dark? If this is ...

Oh and I used 3 whole vanilla pods instead of the instructed 1 whole. Made no difference whatsoever- I even split them down the middle with a knife. You get the idea.

Here's a calculator that will tell you how much to dilute or boil off to hit a gravity. You can take your preboil gravity and plug it in to the second calculator and it will give you what your OG will end up after boil off to whatever volume you are targeting. https://www.brewersfriend.com/dilution...

This is one recipe I will NOT be brewing again! So expensive with the additives! So… for me I did everything by the book, my results are as follows- The coffee was NOT anywhere near enough to add to the beer, its needs way way more. The chocolate is unnecessary as you get choc flavour from the malts...

Wow 😯 well hopefully our brewday goes a bit smoother and less knackering! There’s 2 of us after all so I’m thinking we should be ok, what concerns me is trying to work out the IBU I will need on the fly as you say! I normally plan everything meticulously a week before I actually brew so this will be...

Hi, my brother in law is doing this massive stout and as I’m helping him with the brewday we had the idea of using the second runnings for a second beer parti gyle style. Attached is the recipe, could anyone advise on hop additions? I’ve bought 50g of summit pellets @16.4 AA and was wondering on a b...