Jim's Beer Kit

For the tap you can drill through the rubber handles on the corni and then mount the tap.You may find a thin metal plate within the handle(iirc) so be careful!

Hawkinspm wrote:Does this mean my cunning plan to convert an old hot water cylinder into a boiler is maybe less than cunning?

At 2mg/ltr you should be worrying how long before your copper boiler vanishes

The spent grain from my brewdays gets collected by a mate for the 2 horses he has and the hops go to the compost bins at the local school.As I now have a new neighbour who has 3 pitbull type dogs(which are wrecking my fence) and 4 new puppies some of the hops may get diverted

Make sure the o-ring on the stopper hasnt moved though, as the flow doesnt stop when it has

I've just finished a beaverdale pinot grigio and can confirm there is a good chance your mum and bro' will be going thirsty!!! Thats good to hear as I started the Pinot Grigio kit last week and its sat in the FV bubbling away quite merrily.I also added the oak chippings/dust to the Shiraz last week...

Trunky wrote:

arturobandini wrote:Here's a photo of subsonics beast of a keg



Looking very nice...

I must be missing something here, but they don;t look like standard corney connections.

They havnt had the fittings screwed on yet!

Glad i'm not the only one! Probably serves me right for trying to be too clever. I am gonna stick to my old ways of brewing in future and ignore these new fangled inventions like a hydrometers :D Wasnt it your tastebuds that let you down rather than the hydrometer though, as you said that the sweet...

Tough lesson but an invaluable one none the less I still get caught out by the tap being in the open posistion though

What bottles are you using(glass or pet) and also what type of closures?You may have dodgy seals(its a long shot on all of them not being sealed ok though??).
How many have you tried?

I think BNL is getting confused with mash temps?

Borodave wrote:I find that after 6 weeks my beer is at its worst..cos its normally ran out by then .

And me
Although I now do 25ltr batches,19ltrs go in a corni and the rest gets bottled,so some of each batch makes it to the 6 week mark

Strange thing tho was had a very vigorous boil throughout the first 75 minutes and actually experienced my first boil over #-o What factors can cause that :?: I used US goldings for hops for the first time. Not paying attention can cause boil overs Garry #-o #-o Dont you remember at mine :roll: :ro...

Cheers for the advice chaps If the wine turns out that good then they might not get any off it to drink

After lots of goading from my Mum and Brother I have agreed to make some wine for them in the form of Beaverdale Shiraz 30 bottle wine kit. The only question I have so far is do I need to do any water treatment ie Camden tablet or pre boiling the water?Any help would be appreciated as they both seem...

As above Its a great book to use and has fantastic recipes