Jim's Beer Kit

London Amateur Brewers: Monday 1st February Meet upstairs at: The Wenlock Arms 26 Wenlock Road London N1 7TA Meeting starts at 6.30pm and as well as tasting and evaluation of members' beers, EyeOfTheDuck will be giving a talk on how he's getting on setting up his mew micro, The Kernel Brewery. All n...

Looks like a good one - let me know how it turns out and I might give a brew myself. Really into APAs at the moment

Yes indeed! Looking forward to cramming in as many brewdays as I can before Christmas

I took it easy on the steeping hops - I drank the trial jar whilst kegging and bitterness, flavour and aroma were more subdued than my normal efforts... it actually tasted balanced. Almost a first for me

They're some kind of new-fangled NZ high-alpha dual-purpose hop. I fancied trying something a little different to mark my return to brewing. Anyhooz, I pitched 2 rehydrated, DFS'd packs of Nottingham and the yeast absolutely ripped through it - it had fermented right down and was floccing and slowly...

Hehe thanks Chris
Just doing a post-boil steep and sanitising the new fermenter.

First brew for about 6 months, nice to be back. Sparging right now with no foul-ups so far - like riding a bike ;) Rakau Rumpus Style: 14A-India Pale Ale(IPA)-English IPA For 23l in the fermenter Expected OG: 1.051 SG Expected FG: 1.012 SG Expected ABV: 5.2 % Expected IBU (using Tinseth): 37.0 Ferme...

How do you find the Rakau hops adm? I got some in from H&G and was planning on doing something like a BrewDog Punk IPA with them tomorrow.

Looks good Si

@yogester Seeing as you live about a mile from me I'm guessing your water will probably be pretty similar... For all water: 1 crushed campden tablet in mash liquor 2 or 3 crushed campden's in the mash grains (a Durden Park trick oops did I let out a secret?? :lol:) 2 or 3 crushed campdens in sparge ...

YYYYYYYYYYYYYes Flytact, my idea of a good 'stunner is 6-batcher

Interesting use of US hops - one of the best stunners I made was cascade/styrians.

Yum, all that stunner...

Good to see you're back on the brewing, C-B

Sounds about right. Thanks!

"You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy".

MTFBWY

I'm doing a TTL clone today with Wyeast 1469 (TTL strain). Maybe I should call mine The Landlord of the Mos Eisley Cantina
Gotta love your beer names

Hi all In trying to work out a pre-boil gravity I've got a boiler with 27.5l of 1.047 and a further 4l of 10.14 to top up with - how do I work out the gravity of these worts when mixed together? I'm sure it should be easy, but as I may have said before, my maths ain't good... :lol: thx. EDIT: I mean...

Thought I'd feed back on this one for anyone who is interested. I think I'll back off the roast barley a little next time as there is maybe a little too much burnt-roast flavour to this. While it is mellowing over time, I think maybe 75g will do the trick. Otherwise its a good'un, good body and crea...