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Maybe a smaller second element installed that you can switch to once up to boil, maintaining a boil doesn't require a lot of heat once the temp is up. It should also be possible to wire a controller up with a reduced output afaik, I'm sure some of the gizmo wizmo's will post about that soon.

Lol. though i think it might be down to sunlight making the screen unreadable, i find that with a few of these machines.

2lbs of plums, 100-200g of sugar and a bottle of 40% vodka is on the cards for the proceeds of my tree.

That's what i was thinking on, either chuck em in with a bottle of vodka or gin, i was out and about a bit this evening again and came across some sloe's which are still green, defo on a blackthorn with there huge 1" thorns. What reading up i done on the purple ones from last nights forage...

Something I've noticed a lot more recently, to that list you can add Merc and VW drivers, is it something about German made cars that attract the idiots who no matter what speed you are doing they have to overtake regardless.

If you are going to try to pressurize a FV then i would look to connect the gas line to the lid using a 1/2" tank connector somehow, i would also probably set a few breeze blocks on the lid to keep it held in place as you only have two hands and should things go wrong then at least you have a...

How/with what did you wash your bottles? After cleaning they should be dried completely as bacteria can start to form quite quickly, i would not clean bottles anymore than 2 days in advance to sterilising and filling. If the sugar drops are carbonation drops then prime a few with the...

Lol, maybe in a few years time when global warming turns Norn Iron into the Costa Del Causeway...

Lol if they haven't got electric in Barrow by then how would you get back home again:)

Leaf beside the split fruit https://www.dropbox.com/s/6qtof65npwx5l8f/IMAG0006.jpg?dl=0 And a close up https://www.dropbox.com/s/xriui4s99odgu37/IMAG0008.jpg?dl=0 They do have a stone in them, flesh is green in colour, i wasn't noticing any thorns on the branches which lead me to believe...

If you are limited to taking stuff in and out thru the front i would do away with the two doors and the small dividing wall and increase the size of one door slightly and brick up the rest of it, commercial real estate is priced by the square foot and having walls take up space where you could...

Out gathering a few blackberries earlier when i stumbled across these https://www.dropbox.com/s/0v6sj58l4tydgis/IMAG0004.jpg?dl=0 I have no idea if they are sloes or bilberries or damsons, they are small and bitter though they may have a bit of ripening to do...

This is one of the problems with doing small batches, there is very little extra time taken to do 10l or 50l with the exception of heating water. Speed will increase as you get more familiar with each step, a wort chiller instead of an ice water bath chill will speed your cooling, these can be...

Don't be greedy, the less trub you disturb when racking into the bottling bucket the better, once racked let it sit in place for 24 hours prior to bottling, the less movement the better. You could also consider a draw of point above the trub level. I agree with the idiot on 3 weeks, the last...

Citric acid is found in lemons, oranges etc Pectolase is kind of like the opposite enzyme found in Pectin which is what jam makers use so that there jam sets, adding pectolase makes fruit runny instead by breaking it down at a celular level thereby increasing the volume of recoverable juice...

I got just over 800g gathered yesterday evening, was left to stew overnight with some pectolase and mixed it up with sugar this evening and a litre of WGJ, i should get about 3 bottles worth out of it. Should be an abundance of blackberries here by the end of the month.

Something about 15mm inside diameter, heat it up with hot water if its on the tight side to expand the hose. If you need to connect onto 10mm copper with a garden hose you can solder on a 10mm x 15mm reducer onto the 10mm end, that will give you a clean 15mm copper pipe end to attach the hose to.

There are two different labelings, "best before" and "use by" with best before then that should be the date that it is consumed by where it can still be expected to be in 1st class condition but it will be perfectly eatable/drinkable after that date smell and taste will usually determine how...

The sugar you added to prime the barrel has to be fermented, this produces the gas that builds up pressure to force the beer out, it will not happen straight away, no more different than an old steam locomotive would run as soon as it's fire was lit, it needs a head of steam pressure. If you...