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Portable beer garden anyone? https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/15983787

You can get an adapter that goes on a Sodastream bottle which adapts it to fit S30 barrel valves. https://www.co2supermarket.co.uk/sodastream-hambleton-bard-s30-homebrew-p498.html You'll obviously need a Sodastream bottle as well, but at least you can get them filled locally. I think Sodastream...

The razorpit looks like a reincarnation of Lillicraps. Lillicraps hone

I've made slider with sloes extracted from sloe gin. It took a while to get fermenting, but I think that's because the yeast had to get into the fruit. I don't see you'll have that problem. Keep us posted...

Freezing them and defrosting might give you a better yield, as the juice-containing cells rupture when frozen. I've only used grapes once, but got 1.9l of juice from 2.4kg of grapes. https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/small-batch-wine-from-grapes.100265/#post-1199396

Yep, dived the Thistlegorm in about 1994 while the cargo was pretty intact. The trucks and motorcycles were obviously corroded but intact. There is also a steam locomotive on the seabed which rolled off the deck, while the carriages are still in situ.

Well the prices have flipped in ASDA - the Lancashire Farms yoghurt which was £1 per kilo is now £1.80, and a litre of UHT milk is £1.15, so have now made a few batches. Clean an empty Lancashire Farms tub and sanitise with StarSan. Scoop a desert spoon from a tub of bought yoghurt into the...

As above - no-rinse cleansers are the answer - not sure if it was obvious from the above that Chemsan, Starsan, and some others don't require rinsing, and don't need the 15 mins contact time the the likes of Youngs steriliser state. So if your bottles are clean before bottling day it only takes...

Yep - like a brewer selling beer at the 'bar company' bar for £8 a pint, and explaining there's only a 20p profit margin on that. While making the same beer for £2 a pint in their 'brewing company' and selling it to the 'bar company' for £7.80. Lo and behold, yes the bar does only make 20p a...

This was looking pretty stable and clear, and I need a couple of demijohns, so I bottled this last night. Being in a newer Wilko demijohn (I think 5l rather than a gallon) it filled 6 bottles, with a glass left over - so it had to be sampled... It's certainly drinkable already - but the plan...

Bottled this yesterday - a total of 6 weeks after adding the sloes. It looks as though the yeast had to find its way into the sloes before they fermented as all the bubbled were coming from the holes in the berries. I also had a nibble of a spent berry before adding to the compost, and it was...

Ranked as the worst delivery company 2022 in the MSE poll too... https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2023/january/mse-parcel-delivery-firms-poll-results-2023/

I don't think I've ever seen a decent photo, even at postcard size, taken on 110 film. I know there was a Pentax 110 SLR, so maybe that could get decent results on a slow enough film?

Looks good. Did you sneak a taste?

The bigger brass valve is an S30 valve, which has a pressure relief valve and a way of adding CO2. The other one has just a pressure relief. So if you're definitely not going to be adding CO2 then I'd personally just use the simple pressure relief one as it has fewer potential places to leak...