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I topped up the wort to make 23 Ltrs thinking it might weaken it abit. It's finally below 30 Deg/C now so it has come indoors...man does it retain heat in those plastic buckets it must be 5 deg outside and it has taken over 4 hours to cool down from 70. Pitched the pre hydrated yeast at 25...

No, as luck would have it she gets in after 5 and is's dark and she is off tommorrow to her parents so gives me till Monday to replace it - well i suppose i should replace the both of them so they blend in ;)

Well i have completed the brew ...but i had a bit of a disaster as the Mash Tun filter blocked and i couldnt free it up.I had to make an emergency filter...from our bedroom net curtain :whistle: quickly sanitised of course! then the issue of swapping out the grain. The disturbance caused no...

Well i have decided to go ahead even thou im short of a few things so im going to have to improvise as i go along. As i'm originally from Dorsetshire and used to drink the brew when i was at College all those years ago i have decided in honor of my homeland that i will brew a local ale. I did...

You can find some of the information in the reports, although the Mg is not included...they state all water is 'Hard'. I have just tried to guestimate the amount for the calculator. http://www.thameswater.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/corp/hs.xsl/899.htm

Have a good brewday! :cheers:

All joking asside I wish to congratulate the King in waiting and Miss Middleton - whom i have met a very nice young lady!

Thanks Highway.

Well I am half Italian...so.... I actually always thought that they were soldered into place, but admit i have never used these type of fittings before.

Or you can get a 'thread file' and dress the flattened part - You can do it in situ, needle would work too, but be careful not to remove too much material. HGV fitters use them to repair threading on damaged spigots as i did early in my apprentiship 8-)

AH HA!!! The penny drops - i never did plumbing at College (Can you all tell!). Please excuse my stupidity :oops:

The Olives go on the end of the 15mm pipe, they are either soldered or epoxy can be used. I dont have these attached to the pipe or infact the pipes made up. My question was if anyone has used epoxy to bond the olives to their pipes.

No, i brought a vessel without one - so i have copper/brass connections ready, need to get a Qmax for the hole and I just need 2 pieces of 15mm copper pipe. Just wandered if anyone had used the epoxy method of sealing the olive on the pipes or did they use solder. I'm in the process of...

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Hi, Well i have got the bits for the above modification. I haven't got the QMax, although i remember using these making car panels in my college days and will have to aquire one. How did you get the 15mm copper pipe connections done? Did you buy the items and solder them or did you use a...

Thats one way of getting the kids to bed! Nice brewday!

Can i ask if you will be doing a kit for 23ltrs of Big Kenny with Wez's ok naturally?

Yeah, i know what you mean. :drink: I attended the one at St.Alban's last month and only managed 8 pints - thought it best to stop at that point and make my way home via train.

I think you will have a few attending i think you might have to charge an entry fee. The GF found my large pot being not so well hidden under the kitchen table covered in a large tarp...she was not 'happy' i made a joke about does she want to make enough soup for the next ten years in on...

Nice setup! Mucho Jelous. Can i just ask - speaking as an Engineer, doesn't the stand for your HLT/Boiler look somewhat unstable? Are you going to put stabilisers on it?