Jim's Beer Kit

Maybe try the Kveik approach with a kveik ring to reuse...

https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product ... ing-beech/

Great news!

I'm just having a few pints of my Coniston bluebird clone. Was watching Man City in champions league, it's the first time my 15 year old Son has really seen them lose properly - I having had a season ticket since 2003 remember a lot worse. Anyway the beer eased the result. Previous Bluebird was all ...

It sounds heavenly compared to being an A&E Consultant in the NHS though!

Just spent £150 on lots of 100g yeast packs and shedload of hops. I aspire to partial retirement from the NHS next year and that's the sort of business I'd like to run as a hobby/sideline to help me stay occupied when I fully retire. Sadly geography and time would preclude me asking for their financ...

Hope someone buys the business, great source of yeast and hops.

Had a couple of days off work, Thursday was spent lifting roof tiles at the side of the house so I could insulate some pipes that run underneath and keep freezing up in winter, come to think of it I actually wasn't off - just fitted it around 4 hours of work meetings on teams! So yesterday was more ...

Hop spider? I recently started using the spider again, but I'm relaxed about hop pellets going in the fermenter. If you don't have any big leaf hops the pellet bits don't need a filter, they settle into a lump at the bottom of the kettle, especially if you give it a good swirling. I find they help t...

Got 27L of dark brown Belgian/quadrupel underway yesterday. Despite temperatures being around 18C overnight I found it this morning heating itself to 32 degrees and blocking the airlock with Yeast, which proved that my electrical box conduit glands seal very well as the stainless fermenter was tryin...

It actually got worse, I had taken test samples from the fermenter tap a couple of times before bottling day for the VB, and after the last one a slug must have climbed into the tap body for a drink. I stuck the hose on and let it rip down to the bottling stick. Opaque hose and stainless bottling wa...

The perils of outdoor brewing!

Over the last month or so I've made the following... 27L of. Simcoe extra pale ale Smash with a belgian yeast. Butlers simcoe smash belgian yeast = BUSSBY 25L of my VB clone, used up the last of my pride of ringwood hops 27L of an IPA recipe using CML tropical England hops 50ish L of my BUMPA best b...

I think I worked out why the stout went wrong, giving the stainless klarstein fermenter a good clean before putting a batch of IPA in it on Tuesday. Despite it having all been cleaned and left soaking in chemclean, the lid smelt horrible. I realised there was a load of gunge behind the lid seal whic...

I generally use crossmyloof brew kolsch yeast for lagerish stuff in the summer. I did do some very nice lager and vienna lager in Feb with Bigger jugs pils yeast, all done at ambient in the shed so the lagers were 11-15 degrees for a month and as I say very nice. The kolsch stuff works fine at UK sp...

How did it turn out?