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They'e all grown up a bit since my last post. All three seem to be doing okay this year. Bramling Cross bit of a late starter though.

Still haven't updated about this. Soooorry... :shock:

Yes, sorry to be so lax in the photo-posting-ness. Lots of problems in the non-brewing world. I also have some nice photos of my hop plants. I aim to post some proper updates before next week - the boiler does work, anyway!

Guess what? It only bloody works! I filled it with water after my latest round of trying to tighten and seal the immersion elements and it held. So I calibrated the sight tube up to 56L (it goes into the John Guest elbow at that point) and all was still well. So I plugged in one element...

Yikes. Sorry to hear about the tragic waste. Think of it as an offering to the beer gods. I know, rubbish empathy huh? I get upset when the boiler doesn;t drain properly on 25l, let alone losing 4BBl

Good info from the tour! I've grown up with Adnams on the doorstep, so it's in the blood - literally most of the time. I'm blowing out the GW recipe for Explorer though - I don't understand why it uses Liberty, when Explorer is Columbus and Chinook? Back to the drawing board for me I think...

I was thinking cyberpunk chopsticks. I should be writing and posting pictures about my boiler efforts, which look pretty handsome now... ...but instead I'm going for a pint or six. :drunk:

Yeah, I'm typing before I think. The thermostat, yeah. They've both gone. *Fling!*

Having a go at sorting it all out over my lunch hour and it's all going well so far. I shall have a shiny boiler yet! (Whether it holds water, let alone heats it up, is another thing altogether.) With these immersion elements, do I simply pull out the immersion heater a throw it away, by the...

I think that was exactly it Vossy. Fortunately I at least began cutting both before the teeth burnt flat, so I had a burnt circumference to follow in each case. It looks a real mess, but ones I clean it up and cover it with the flanges of the elements themselves it may be allright. i'll sort...

Some very kind advice from James, but in the end I've used my Dremel and a stack of cut-off disks to finish cutting out the element holes 'freehand'. It took a while and created a good noise, smell and smoke, but at least there are now a couple of jagged holes vaguely where I wanted them. The...

You might be waiting a little while to see it come alive! I failed miserably! Managed to cut the 20mm holes for the sight tube and ball valve allright, but the 64mm holes beat me and my sooper-dooper expensive Bosch holesaw. I have pilot holes, and scorched hardened semi-cut circles and a...

Pics. Right. Absolutely. Does that mean I have to drill one-handed? Sounds a bit rash, but yeah, okay, I'll give it a go. :P I've just bought a decent set of saws and a free evening for myself. Looks like I might be making/wrecking my new boiler later! I need to cut holes for and fit a...

Tastes okay too... :)

This smells amazing! Very fruity (in a good way), spicy smells from he fermenter discernable beyond the crazy US-05 yeast head. This is down to 1.011 already - a point below target - so it will be moving into a secondary later today. Looking forward to this one.

For my next boiler, I need to buy a proper HopStopper from someone who knows what they are doing, but if you get caught short, there's always the StopGap Hoptopper.

More photos than you'd ever want to look at, now up. (Had to wait for my lunch hour!)

My Acid Malt just arrived. Once I build my new boiler (and brewing area, actually - it's another little project for next week) then Adnams brews will be top priority! I'll make a special note for that sugar addition though, as I've never added sugar in an AG brew and would definitely forget it.

Love the pics. I'm not sure you put in enough effort on the aeration front, though... :whistle: :P

Yeah, good stuff. I'm really intrigued about getting the citrus notes by, well, adding citrus! Makes a lot of sense if it works, just don't understand why more people don't do it if it's the case. I'm definitely up for a stab at adding lemon zest if you get worthwhile results that differ from...