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John Bull Best Bitter 1.8Kg1 × £18.00
John Bull Best Bitter 1.8Kg1 × £18.00 £15.50 £13.50
This 1.8Kg kit makes 40 pints (23 litres) of a full golden crisp lager, light & refreshing with honey notes and a lingering bittersweet finish. Packaged in an innovative thick plastic pouch suitable for recycling these beer kits are a must to try and will require the addition of 1Kg of brewing sugar or beer kit enhancer.
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This is a new S30 Co2 gas bottle, you can return it to us for a refill, there is no return value for these bottles, only refill .
g0 to gas refill go tohttps://brewingathome.co.uk/product/hambleton-bard-s30-cylinder-refill/
Faulty Gas Bottles
Any faulty gas bottles are now returned to Hamstead Brewing who will inspect and test them, if they are found to be faulty, we will refund your money, if they can’t find any fault there will be no refund.
Please let the sales assistant know if you having trouble with you bottle and we will take your details and send them to Hamstead Brewing, we will sale you a full gas bottle and let you know of the outcome, this can take up to 6 weeks, we are bound to their findings.
Care of gas bottles
After each use dip valve into warm water to ensure the valve has fully closed or tap the end with a small metal tool and test before you put it away again.
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A hydrometer is used to figure out how much alcohol is in your beer or cider. It measures the density of liquid (called gravity). Alcohol is less dense than sugary pre-fermented beer, so measuring gravity at the beginning of fermentation (at the end of your brew day) and measuring it again two weeks later at the end of fermentation (when you’re ready to bottle) will tell you exactly how much alcohol you have on hand. It’s a great way to let a little science into your otherwise relaxing brew day adventures with a hydrometer.
Beer Brite finings are a very powerful form of dry isinglass finings. Isinglass is one of the main fining agents for clearing beer in the world and is used by virtually all breweries. The main problem with isinglass is that it needs to be kept constantly cool otherwise the product denatures and will not work. To overcome this, we have freeze-dried the isinglass at the point of making it up. Being a freeze-dried product, it can be stored at virtually any temperature without it losing any of its characteristics. Also, the free-drying extends the life of the finings considerably.
Although beers will eventually clear by themselves, sometimes this could be many months. Finings have a dual benefit when you add them to your beer, wine or cider. First, they attach to the haze and make it heavier, so it starts to settle quicker. As this is happening, the finings keeps absorbing the proteins that make up the haze, constantly getting bigger and heavier so it clears quickly.
Second, when the haze has fallen to a sediment, the finings starts to compact it, making less wastage. The sediment in its compact form is not so easily disturbed, so there is less chance of cloudy beer when pouring from a bottle.
Add two level teaspoons of powder into half a cup of cold water. Whisk with a fork for 1 minute to thoroughly mix. Leave for 15 minutes, then whisk again before adding to 5 gallons (23L) of beer towards the end of fermentation. This has the benefit of producing the finings with 100% activity, so you are using a more powerful and stronger finings. This results in clear beer quickly with more compact sediment.
When liquid isinglass is manufactured, it starts to deteriorate. The longer it is kept, the less fining properties are left in the product. As the Beer Brite was freeze-dried when it was made up, and then you are adding the water later on, you are using the full 100% fining properties.
Beer Brite is available in a 3 dose pot to treat up to three 5 gallon brews (22.5 litres). Larger sizes are available for commercial breweries, such as 120g sachets to treat 100-gallon tanks of beer.
