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I thought I would post an update, I hadn't realised it was 2012 since the last time I posted on this thread. Not much has changed brewery wise, I guess that is a good thing, proves it was built OK, it must be testament to all the advice I gleaned from this site. :grin: About the only major...

We are just planning holidays for next year, we like the Edinburgh fringe, mainly for the comedy and SWMBO has always wanted to go to see the Highland games, and we intend to do both, the fringe finishes 25th August and the Cowal highland gathering is 28th to 30th in Dunoon, 80 miles to the...

Thank Steve I found it on ebay, search for biodiesel tank, however just had a look and couldn't spot one. This looks identical, whatever you select make sure its food grade HDPE and preferably new, not used for biofuel production :sick: Cheers Andy

I built an insulated FV cupboard, I use a tube heater controlled by a PID via a PT100 thermometer in the FV with a bog standard plant room thermostat as a fail safe. This is an old picture, the power lead entry into the tube heater is at the bottom now ;) Lid and front removed for the next...

How about storing it here? (not the bottle!) :grin:

Does lagering extend to bottling too? I was planning a lager in early spring so that it was ready for summer and I was planning on bottling it all after fermentation, or should I stick it in a cornie first then bottle? Cheers Andy

Many thanks for that :D I've thrown a few away recently due to mistakes so I'm down to my last cornie of decent ale. I was thinking it may finish 1012 or even 1014. Cheers Andy

I brewed an extra stout yesterday that I have brewed before, the only major change to the recipe was a reduction in pale malt from 14kg to 11.5kg. As I'm a bit remote my visitors tend to drive and hesitate to sample high ABV beer so I thought I would keep it down to a reasonable level. Looking...

Aaamcle I did my perforated SS false bottom with a nibbler then tidied it up with an angle grinder. Since then I have a plasma cutter, not tried it cutting circles yet as I have to adapt the cheapo circle jig but it would go around a template fine. If your near west yorks/lancs border I'm...

Your not far from Hereford and I'm due a visit to my mate who owns a pub there, I may give you a shout if I get a weekend pass from SWMBO.

I stopped using finings after fermentation a while ago, I haven't needed them. However my last brew was quite cloudy and then I looked on the side and saw the Irish moss still in its pot :doh:, so to try and rescue this brew I've put some finings in, I shall find out later today if this is an...

Overhead down on east coast south of Peterborough so got off at Doncaster and had a laugh at the display boards, no matter how they display it its still complete balderdash and nobody had a clue when the next train to anywhere was. on a train to Leeds and looking forward to a nice long draughty...

just been told by the guard that we are clear so far but speed restricted to 50mph from Peterborough and that the train will be rammed with up to 400 people from Doncaster on a train with 280 seats. ETA is normal + 1hour but may change.

I'm on the train from Halifax to London, I've put a few more books on my kindle just in case....

PD and Loetz, thanks guys. if I get pushed out of my day job I'll think about it :D Cheers MacKiwi. I may be picking your brains, I'll have a good go myself first as its the best way to learn but I have some serious gaps in my knowledge. I'm used to C and Perl, Python seems easy enough and...

Will do, probably worth mentioning that most of my ideas were triggered by other posters before me. I see that there's a few on here with microcontroller skills that I may be in need of, I haven't programmed in anger for a few years so a bit rusty, just waiting for my RF stuff to link my...

Thanks guys! Much appreciated :hat: I am still hanging around and brewing/reading/posting occasionally but I kind of got side tracked on other projects, some brewing related and with kids/work I'm having difficulty squeezing it all in. I've had an ongoing project for 8 years with an old...

Hi Doive I used these nuts for my Backer elements Cheers Andy

+1 :thumb: I made my shiny HERMS brewery then tried my first brew in the winter, ended rigging up all sorts Heath Robinson efforts to make do and the temp was all over the place. So did it the wrong way round. I eventually made a fermenting cupboard as I get a 120L FV but a fridge is best if...

Thanks BB - nice to get acclaim from a fellow chrome dome - we are the next stage in human evolution :D I've updated my sig and added a link to the build thread, must update it some time as I have done a few things since and I have a revolutionary idea for a hop filter that will change the...