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They're not engineers either, technicians at best 🙂 Graz B.Eng Hons. Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Going to try oaking my next Turbo Cider. Have got some vanilla flavoured oak chips on the way. Could be nice, could be horrible 😁 It'll still get drunk though (can always add black current cordial) 🤣

I've always found the quoted ABV on most kits to be a little optimistic but yours does sound a little on the low side. If you plug the numbers into here, i.e. 1.8kg of liquid malt & 1kg of sugar in a 5 gallon volume, then it comes out 1.041 with an estimated ABV of 3.9%...

If all else fails for Mike T he can at least go for the bite 😁 The other guy needs to keep a close eye on whether he's put his gum shield in or not at the start of a round.

Small price to pay to see those beautiful birds do their thing. They were here long before we overpopulated the planet and brought along our cars.

I didn't like this one either, just tasted artificial. The other weird thing about it was that I had it in a keg and force carbonated it. When poured it had zero head despite being fizzy. Really weird. As usual I had to put a few litres of it into bottles with priming sugar to take up the...

My plan was just a have one or two tapping heads. When I put beer in them I'll just put a cap on it and maybe purge any head space with a bit of CO2, I do similar with my corny kegs. When I actually want to drink it I'll put the tapping head on and force carbonate. Other option is to add...

Welcome to the forum 👍 Now an important question about your pub name, have you got 3 guinea gigs, if so see here 🙂 : https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/show-us-your-rabbit-guinea-pig-small-mammal.103780/

It's not just foreign holidays though. We have a caravan and tend to take most of our holidays in the UK. Even the caravan sites jack there pitch prices up during the school holidays. I'm lucky that I'm in a financial position we we can go away a few times a year and yeah I get that if you...

I also use a length of the blue food grade pipe to top up my fermenter. I run a bit of hot water through it first though.

I seem to remember years ago that some kit beers did suggest that you boiled the whole volume of the kit. Presumably just because of some sort of paranoia about contamination. Now my Dad taught me how to make beer kits and his view was don't bother. Hence I've never boiled a kit. I've not...

I could probably write a long essay about my thoughts on this topic but I won't. Whilst my parents weren't fanatical Christians I was christened and got sent to Sunday school. Think my Dad struggled a bit with the idea that if you're a regular church goer there is an expectation that you donate...

Although she'll never admit it my wife suffers from this massively. Makes mealtimes interesting as you get some comment made if you happen to be a bit noisy eating or inadvertently speak with any food in your mouth. I mean I get that some of this is not good manners but she takes it to the...

I've made this a few times. In so far as being close to a commercial beer this kit has it nailed. I poured a pint for a Weiss loving friend and he didn't believe it was homebrew.

I got conned back around 2008, a lesson learned but luckily didn't cost me that much. I suspect this stuff with the claims and commission or whatever it was also applied. At the time I was after a small run around for the missus and had decided we liked the Mitsubishi Colt, that turned out to...

For me it's probably people first and foremost, I mean I don't hate everyone and have good friends and family, but whenever I venture in places like the high street, busy supermarkets and so on I do often wonder what humanity has come to, at least in the UK anyway. Mind you I've never really...

Pretty much every fricking night now days, beer or no beer. Worst bit is if I get conscious enough in that process to start thinking about work or whatever else is the current stressor I can then be awake for ages trying shut those thoughts out a lose consciousness again. I've tried to perfect...

Ultimately as a kit brewer I wish you could get a 23L stainless Cornelius keg but the new 4L PET kegs will be welcomed by me for packaging the difference between a 5 gallon kit and a 19L corny. As for the bigger one I think I still prefer stainless due to it's longevity and ability to be washed...

The roads are bad enough but I'll add to this the state of the pavements round by us, and these are even lower down the order of stuff to fix. As someone who runs to keep fit it's a liability especially on dark evenings and I tend to run in the roads most of the time to avoid it. Luckily most...

First bit I'm somewhere between a C & D, probably depends how distracted by my kids, wife or whatever else I get while toasting. If it's breakfast I'll be having two slices. Both must have copious amounts of 1, my favourite combo is then one slice 3, other slice 6. Sometimes have 4, rarely 2...