Jim's Beer Kit

Hi have read on the board here somewhere that the elements in these boilers are sometimes tempramental. My prob at the moment is it keeps cutting out & does not maintain a rolling boil, or sometimes get close to boil :( Was thinking it might be an idea to clean the element up, but what should I use?...

this thread is quickly moving away from IPA

A ring piece in the brew is never a good idea

erm buy the book, the reciepe is in there

Well have just taken delivery of the 3 new BrewUK extract recipes this morning, will give 1 of them ago next week & report on there taste when it comes to it

Thanks might give that extract brew a go

or take to any welder fabricator, my house mate is 1 & says he could do that no problem for a couple of pints

on my first GW reciepe now Summer Lightening, will give the Exmoor Gold a try next. Not a big fan of mild though

Thanks didn;t think it was gonna turn out too bad. Correct Goldings hops were used in correct quantites in both brews. Will certainly be an education to taste when they are kegged & ready

Well reading about people doing summer lightening I thought I would give it a go. Got all the ingredients & started about 3pm yesterday. However I made a bit of a silly mistake. In stead of 46g of Challenger hops at start of boil I put 46g of Goldings in. Note to self double read & check before you ...

yes I kegged today dropped to 1.009 in the end so a good brew, was lovely & clear as well, will be having 2 weeks before a sneaky taste is taken but will be in the keg for at least 4 before being supped

ok thanks for that, I will wait till i get closer to 1.010 before removing heat source to let the head go back into beer.

working nights I normally crack a beer open at 7:30am cos is my evening lol

Ok mate thanks was used to 7 day ferments with kits, after 7 days I still have a huge yeast head on it but has dropped to 1.015 so it is obviously still going. I will leave a few more days before maybe siphoning off into my other fv. Just don't wanna let any dead yeast spoil flavour. Any help on whe...

I did the amereilo brewuk recipe extract kit last week. All went well as is fermenting well SG was 1.052. After 6 days I still have a large yeast head in the FV & can't even see or find the hydro to see how it is doing (always leave hydro in my brews) Have not used US05 before so is new to me still ...