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  1. Stone Cold

    treating my water..where and how...

    I dont think the PH of the water helps tell you anything, Murphy & Sons lab told us that its a useless bit of info and they only include it in the report of analysis because so many people phone them to tell them they forgot to include it in the report, its the make up of the water that your...
  2. Stone Cold

    How you all doing?

    its the standard small under bar chiller, slightly bigger than a upside down asda box :) its was a assumed broken chiller that someone had lying around, someone els had the pump from a big python chiller so I took that and mounted it to my chiller (a chiller with a pump on top seems to always...
  3. Stone Cold

    bottling from the barrel

    yes you can bottle from barrel, add half a tea spoon of sugar tho each bottle and then put away to bottle condition at least 2 weeks
  4. Stone Cold

    How you all doing?

    because of the volume of beer it takes a long time for temp to change, about 0.9 degree celsius every hour or something like that, so when fermentation has almost finished with a few points to go on hydrometer I turn the chiller on and start cooling the fv down, after 12 hrs chilling its down to...
  5. Stone Cold

    How you all doing?

    The heater is in the water bath of the cooler and the lead just runs out of the unit and i plug it into the wall, i have the chiller/pump/heater all on separate plugs . Simple :)
  6. Stone Cold

    How you all doing?

    Few pics of random objects around the brewery i have been using my old mash tun as the under back/hop back it helps to keep little bits out of heat exchanger but its not great some modifying will take place soon. the sink is a blessing! i use the tilting cask rack to bottle from, although a...
  7. Stone Cold

    How you all doing?

    Have not been on here in some time ! Hope your all well, I have been busy busy working on the brewery, beers improving all the time although I have had constant problems since day one most of which have been sorted. I will post some pictures later after i have finished...
  8. Stone Cold

    non-bottle conditioned beers

    with a counter pressure filler. heres the home brew equivalent http://morebeer.com/products/counter-pressure-bottle-filler.html
  9. Stone Cold

    The Apprentice - beer challenge

    yeah load of ****! few flashes of a counter pressure beer gun bottle filler in action
  10. Stone Cold

    Mango Chutney Drum Converted to Cask Washer (now with video)

    Hi Forum! I finally got the hump over tedious cask cleaning by hand today so decided something had to be a done, my process of cleaning is to steam clean the cask with a pressure washer then submerge the cask into a my serialising solution the back to pressure wash/steam clean to rinse out...
  11. Stone Cold

    I dont mean to show off but, Big Shiny Things

    hello all, firstly thank you all for taking an interest in my brewery story. like i said here I got a deal on these fermenters as these were the first conversion AJP had done with these tanks, if i was to go order another one I would be looking at double the cost. so remember that before you...
  12. Stone Cold

    I dont mean to show off but, Big Shiny Things

    Thank you everyone for your support! I have made enough money for 28 firkins and 8 pins to go along side 8 plastics. slowly getting there! vans almost fixed swell we have had the gearbox out and changed the broken bearing ourselves to put more money into brewery and not this ******* van! [/URL]
  13. Stone Cold

    I dont mean to show off but, Big Shiny Things

    Sure Il do my best
  14. Stone Cold

    I dont mean to show off but, Big Shiny Things

    we got a like for like grant that i think is called 'farm diversification grant' or similar that paid for half the renovation of the building. we had a grant that may only be available for Powys county that was again a like for like grant called business start up and now we are going for...
  15. Stone Cold

    I dont mean to show off but, Big Shiny Things

    the first few were kind of hard work, trying out building tables as a stand like everyone els then using a full blown market stall and all with loads of ugly plastic boxes, then i got wise and got a friend to make these crates for me out of old pallets, now its easy because all i do is take x...
  16. Stone Cold

    I dont mean to show off but, Big Shiny Things

    Brewery is making beer now! some bugs to sort out but its going pretty well, this is a photo of the first brew day, it was a bit manic to say the least! I have also been at a few more markets, it seems even at the quietest smallest markets im taking about £200 quid, biggest problem is keeping...
  17. Stone Cold

    do you know anything about this SWISS barley wine?

    i dont think it was ever the strongest beer in the world, just claimed to be. I got 50 bottles of this stuff what shall i do with it????????????????????????? is there such a thing as old beer colectors? ollie
  18. Stone Cold

    do you know anything about this SWISS barley wine?

    not tonight... i struggle to drink beer over 6% and only if it has tons of hops, i suspect this wont be to hopppy
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