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Added bonus with loose leaf, no plastics. I'd always thought tea bags where just paper, only found out recently they're now usually plastic.

athumb.. If the mesh is creased or folded anywhere it's probably better left that way as trying to straighten it could cause fractures that may split later. Same with any impacts, even light taps with a rubber mallet can weaken the stuff but the frame should straighten out no trouble and any...

Is the mesh torn anywhere or pulled away from however it's fixed to the frame? Probably a right pain to fix if there's any of that kind of damage but if it's just the frame that's bent it should straighten out ok.

That's pretty much the way money works unfortunately, it comes into existence through loans by the banks and the loans are often packaged up and sold to the highest bidder (ex. mortgage backed securities). Money is debt and scum like Wonga are just the tip of the stinking iceberg.

Apparently the Bass brewery moved premises a while ago and the cellars of the old place had bottles of just about everything they'd made since the times of Dickens. Some where tasted, lots totally undrinkable but some had aged incredibly well.

Sounds very tasty :) Just got 2 gallon batches of blackberry started, one using red wine yeast and another with the sediment from a batch using natural yeasts from elderflower that seems to have a rather strange property, almost hallucinogenic... could prove interesting. Hadn't even thought of...

The scissor jack would be the way to go for hand operated imo, I'd pressed a few gallons with a hydraulic jack before and you'll be sick of pumping that handle before the day is done! The scissor jack has the right characteristics, fast travel at the start when it's only packing things down with...

Just read through this thread, new here and I'm not familiar with the kit folks are using but it sounds like accurate control of the heating element wattage would be far more useful, to be able to turn the element up just enough to cut out occasionally rather than cutting in and out...

The grain? Yeah, not sure why it's out of stock yet the bundle with 25kg of the same is listed as in stock. Not heard anything from them about the order so I'm guessing they have it, they're usually on the ball.

Search "vienna" on their site and there's a bundle offer, bulldog mill, grain bucket and 25kg vienna for under 120 yoyos :) EDIT: Weird thing is Hope bumping an old thread isn't a problem btw, I was searching for "vienna" to get some idea how to use it as I've ordered that bundle and it'll be...

More than 10 tons of booze?? Kewl! :) First post in this thread so since the start of the summer... is wine included of just beer? Beer: Better Brew Czech Pilsner kit, 21L after bottling HBS own brand Golden Ale kit, 21L after bottling Total 10670 liters Wine: 13L rhubarb and elderflower 18L...

What do you think, maybe a liter or two? In theory it should be perfectly fine to do just a pint in a demijohn, the co2 forms a blanket but the only time I'd ever had a batch go bad was in a half full one so I avoid usng them part full. If you go with small vessels like clear wine or beer...

Give it a go with what you have? I was wondering about fermenting very small batches, a wine bottle or smaller for unusual things to see how they came out and a friend suggested the push in porers for spirits and a pipe from them into water for an air lock. Might be worth trying with what you...

Cool :) Can you post it when you've got it going? Interested to see how it turns out as some years I'm overrun with plums (not this year unfortunately). I'm guessing you've seen the Japanese plum wines? Very popular over there but I've yet to try any. I'd made a fizzy one last year too and that...

Maybe play around? You've enough for about 10 gallons there, plenty to try a few different recipes. I'd done plums with natural yeast before and they came out really well, very long ferment and not particularly strong but a really broad range of flavors. Champagne or cider yeast is usually used...

Nice one, thanks :) Looks like I'd be better using ones off that list as using trial and error to guestimate where the Gervin yeasts finish is just asking for bottle bombs, GV4 is supposed to be able to go up to 18-20% but a batch here seems to be finished fermenting at 12.6% (with nutrient...

Is there a list of wine yeasts and alcohol tolerance anywhere? I usually use gervin yeasts and have found a few lists of yeast properties on d'internet but few of them had entries for the alcohol tolerance figures. EDIT: Current batches are about finished with Gervin GV9 at 13.6% and GV11 at...

Depends a lot on the traffic light timing too, some countries have very long times for lights changing and it would work pretty well in those but the UK has short times. As far as I know it's been compulsory for decades in Switzerland, all cars have to turn off the engine at the lights so it...