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- Sat Aug 06, 2011 6:06 am
- Forum: Condensers/Cooling Methods
- Topic: ??Winding a coil??
- Replies: 64
- Views: 20118
Re: ??Winding a coil??
Im getting frustrated and envious now. I sure wish we lived the same side of the pond cos ive tried and tried today to get my coil even started. By the time I leave a 12'' tail to start and then bugger up in the first bends, im wasting about 18'' at each attempt. Ive only got a 30' roll to start wit...
- Sat Aug 06, 2011 12:21 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello everyone
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3484
Re: Hello everyone
Oh I see, silly me I havent brewed for 12 years but used to buy sachets of dedicated beer brewing yeast. I lived in a hop growing area, Herefordshire and was able to get large bags of hops free at any time in the season. Water was from my own well and malt was by the bucket full I should have bought...
- Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:54 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello everyone
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3484
Re: Hello everyone
I dont think so Baker
I bought it in the baking section of my local store and it says on the tin
Allinson (long time baking firm) dried active yeast. Natural yeast for traditional hand baking. Not recommended for use in bread makers
Anyway, its damn good stuff
I bought it in the baking section of my local store and it says on the tin
Allinson (long time baking firm) dried active yeast. Natural yeast for traditional hand baking. Not recommended for use in bread makers
Anyway, its damn good stuff
- Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:09 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello everyone
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3484
Re: Hello everyone
Hi Rad, thanks for your reply. I hear what your saying and ive read the tutorial several times. I also have a 16mm length of 316 bar which I clamped in a vice, to make it easier and started with the coil end at @45 deg to it and slowly formed around the bar. it seems that once I got past the 90 stag...
- Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:50 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello everyone
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3484
Re: Hello everyone
All I can say is WOW Brewing yeast never worked like this bakers yeast is today. I have never seen such vigorous activity and its even more fun than watching fish in a tank cos I know each bubble is matched by alcohol. I have done another bottle this morning and this time I smashed up th flakes in a...
- Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:13 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello everyone
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3484
Re: Hello everyone
I heated a pan of water and added the sugar which I stired for ages to disolve. I then added the crushed bran flakes, which was a mistake as they blocked up the bottle necks and I should have put them dry into the bottles and then added the sugar wash. Yeast went in once I was sure it wasnt too hot....
- Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:44 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello everyone
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3484
Re: Hello everyone
About 3 hours ago I started my first wash and its gone balistic.
Its a standard branflake design and currently at 26 deg c.
All the bran is at the top and its working like mad. Is this ok and normal?
Its a standard branflake design and currently at 26 deg c.
All the bran is at the top and its working like mad. Is this ok and normal?
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:56 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Jars
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2920
Jars
Why is moonshine kept in jars? Maybe its not an American original idea and may have travelled across with Irish immigrants, in which case, im sure it was easier for the average bog dwelling Irish shiner to come across bottles than jars which were used for food storage. Your average Irish family were...
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:23 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello everyone
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3484
Re: Hello everyone
Hi Banter king
There is a company based near Bristol who produce a cider called Cripple Cock. Maybe theres a hidden warning in the title.
Thanks guys for the advice, im just going to follow a middle path and see what happens. Tried and True is a good policy for more success.
There is a company based near Bristol who produce a cider called Cripple Cock. Maybe theres a hidden warning in the title.
Thanks guys for the advice, im just going to follow a middle path and see what happens. Tried and True is a good policy for more success.
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 12:01 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: A few dumb questions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 595
Re: A few dumb questions
Thank you Blind Drunk, it looks like im good to go and shall be burning some midnight oil making my first wash.
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:12 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello everyone
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3484
Re: Hello everyone
A bit of an update Been away for 10 days fixing up a new bathroom at Moms but I scored a 50lt euro sankey barrel off brother. Last seen at my sisters 40th birthday 4 years ago, been lurking in the yard since and still has 20 ish lts of beer in it. :sick: Need to drain it out and get scrubbing, so, i...
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:02 am
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: A few dumb questions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 595
A few dumb questions
I guess I got Alzheimers cos im getting dummer and more forgetful as I get older. Please remind me if Im kind to my lees after ferment and treat the yeast right with a nice home, will they do the business again one day soon? Do they need a good meal or pep pills before hibernation? or just pop them ...
- Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:29 am
- Forum: Sugar
- Topic: White Sugar Nutrients Informantion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 81862
Re: White Sugar Nutrients Informantion
Except first early potatoes.HookLine wrote:I have never seen one with an N-P-K ratio of 20-20-20. That level of P would kill almost every plant species.
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 9:29 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 4219
- Views: 586703
Re: Jokes
Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman are on a secret wartime mission flying across the desert when the plane dies and crashes. They all survive and the Englishman takes charge. Ok chaps he says, we have to walk home but we dont have much water and I dont think we will make it so when one of us dies, th...
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 9:21 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 4219
- Views: 586703
Re: Jokes
A couple go on vacation and on the third day its raining so they go to the zoo. There is a big sign saying due to cutbacks and hard times the zoo must close and all animals must be re homed. Those which cant find a new home will be destroyed. So, she says oh thats awfull, we must do something to hel...
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 9:16 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 4219
- Views: 586703
Re: Jokes
Awwwhackware wrote:dang girl...
i ain't blond, but i don't get the second one...
must b a your-side-of-the-pond thing...
Dont you know if you gotta explain a joke, it kinda looses its meaning. In Britain, minge is pubic hair.
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 7:11 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 4219
- Views: 586703
Re: Jokes
A blonde woman highway cop stops a blonde woman driver and asks to see her drivers licence What does it look like asks the woman Its kind of square and has your picture on it says the cop The woman searches through her purse and finds a mirror and hands it to the cop. The cop looks at her reflection...
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:53 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 4219
- Views: 586703
Re: Jokes
A pregnant Irish girl calls home from a phone booth
Mam, I tink me waters have broke
Oh me jesus, where are yous ringing from?
From me fecking minge to me ankles.!!!
Mam, I tink me waters have broke
Oh me jesus, where are yous ringing from?
From me fecking minge to me ankles.!!!
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:50 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 4219
- Views: 586703
Re: Jokes
Ah great, you guys got a joke page. My turn to add a few. A (blonde) penguin takes her car to a garage and tells the guy theres a problem with the engine. Leave it with me and come back in a few hours he tells her A few hours later she returns and he gives her the bad news. Looks like youve blown a ...
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:11 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Still: Copper vs. Aluminium
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8672
Re: Still: Copper vs. Aluminium
About 10 years ago a truck driver working for a water company here in the uk mistakenly emptied 35,000 litres of treatment water into a drinking line at a filtration plant at Camelford, Cornwall. The tanker contained water that was being treated with aluminium flocking agent. Since then in the town ...
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:09 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello everyone
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3484
Re: Hello everyone
Peach and apple schnapps Gin Vodka Brandy Erm, ......easier if I said alcohol I guess. For now I just want neutral spirits I can add flavours to. With fall on the way and living on a farm, theres lots of hedgerow fruits available. Just chatted to my sister and shes sure she can get me an electrical ...
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:22 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello everyone
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3484
Re: Hello everyone
There seems to be more interest in growing dope in this country. Maybe the highlighted dangers of running a still are too much for most? If you dont blow yourself up, you will probably go blind, or so they think. There was an explosion in a factory unit last week. 4 guys killed and one still in hosp...
- Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:42 pm
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: All Bran Recipe
- Replies: 2021
- Views: 387159
Re: All Bran Recipe
Too much heads carried over?rad14701 wrote:
Oh, my aching head...
Thanks, I guess I will get it figured out ok.
- Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:37 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello everyone
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3484
Re: Hello everyone
Thanks for the welcome guys.
I guess my boat would come in handy in Mississippi?
I guess my boat would come in handy in Mississippi?
- Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:31 am
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: All Bran Recipe
- Replies: 2021
- Views: 387159
Re: All Bran Recipe
If I start off with Rads recipie from the top and do a 4 litre batch, just how big is a cup? A dinky tea cup or a pint 'bucket' type of cup? There are two types of bran available in the store. one is flakes and the other is extruded strands. Does it matter which? When using ordinary bakers yeast, is...
- Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:04 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello everyone
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3484
Hello everyone
Yet another noobie just joined, always looking for information and experience from those of you who have the generosity and time to share. I started home brewing when I was a kid, making awfull tasting yeasty beer from kits, then branched out into barley wines which I tried stilling when I was still...