Jim's Beer Kit

Galaxy Delight, IPA, APA how would you class it ?

making a Galaxy Delight with the NBS yeast, took off quick and 8 days later still sitting with a good 2 inches of foam ontop. Been sitting at 20'C, just would have expected this to drop sooner. Would you be tempted to raise the temp to finish it, I daren't go near it with a hydrometer till it has fa...

I don't worry about sealing the lid down, they never used too. I leave my lid loosely sitting on the plastic fermenter, never had an issue. Seen some fermenters with cling film on, but seems a little unnecessary in my opinion.

Looking at doing DKs Galaxy recipe, the 100g Aromatic I can only see Dingemans Aromatic on the MaltMiller.
I assume this is correctomundo ?
cheers

conicals look great. I would be too tempted to be lifting the lid off all the time.
I only ever loosely fit my lid on my fermenting bucket, never had any probs, but I am sure I will be measuring my fridge up, just to see if one of those bad boys will fit.

believe my local micro was experimenting with champagne yeast, but don't know any more than that. Nothing ventured nothing gained in my opinion.

why do we not advocate stepped mashes, is it to do with the our malting process being different to theirs ?

err moved it where exactly

wow, lotta work there, great effort.
I have always used UK-Homebrew Horden Billys guide, in the Links tab. it keeps me on the straight and narrow and is a great aid on brew day.
Hats off to you all

Latin- pheww,

what did the Romans ever do for us ?

down to 1020, so not as far as it should, even after rousing, and more yeast added.

hi Jim
it was a biggy, 1080 and I used US05.
Do I understand right that the darkest malts are for flavour, and produce little sugar for fermentation ?
cheers
bt

i made a porter recently which seems a little too sweet for my taste. Also i think i messed up by not using enough dark malt. I want to add some bitterness and thoughtvabout experimenting with coffee additions. I assume i could also steep some dark malt and add directly to my cornie does this sound ...

thanks chaps, I feel a flush of plastic coming on

I hate bottling, like most people. Am I right in thinking beer gun means I can force carb my beer in my corny, then 'gun' it into bottles and be drinking carbonated beer quicker than natural carbonation. I assume this is the case, but am surprised more people aren't using them. Anyone any experience...