Howdy from Somerset

[Flat Foot]

Hi all,

I've been lurking for a few days and figured I should create an account.

I'm a few weeks into this homebrew lark, and keeping finding 'just one more thing' to buy.

A couple of weeks back I borrowed a friend's press to use up some of the apples from the tree in my garden, the cider from that is currently in four demijohns and I'm planning to bottle soon (if I get another crop next year like this one I can do a couple of batches through summer and autumn - we usually end up giving loads away).

With my interest piqued I started a banana wine a week ago, decided to try a pumpkin wine to use up one of the pumpkins my wife grew and didn't know what to do with a couple of days ago (recipe from here) and also started a beer from a kit at the weekend. The airing cupboard is presently full....

I find myself vacillating between being lost at sea with the terminology and 'best practice' to occasionally feeling like I'm beginning to sound like I understand what I'm talking about....

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Welcome to the forum.
If in doubt ask

 

[VW911]

Hello from another Somerset dweller!
Whereabouts are you?

 

[Flat Foot]

Just south of Bath

 

[VW911]

Not too far away - I'm Somerton/Langport area...

 

[starseeker]

welcome from another Somerset dweller :)

 

[Hoddy]

Just south of Bath

Frome?

 

[Gerryjo]

Hi and welcome to the forum...

 

[Flat Foot]

Frome?

Left a bit

 

[Hoddy]

Left a bit

**** and smell it?

 

[Flat Foot]

That's left and down a bit

 

[Hoddy]

That's left and down a bit

ha ha So your not that far.

Sounds like smells or coal ford to me

 

[Flat Foot]

Now you're getting closer... Jump on NCN24 from Mells and follow it down

 

[Hoddy]

Now you're getting closer... Jump on NCN24 from Mells and follow it down

shut up!!

I used to live in Nunney

 

[Flat Foot]

Follow it up Radstock direction. But know all of that area well from bike rides.

I can confirm that it's all still there

 

[Hoddy]

Follow it up Radstock direction. But know all of that area well from bike rides.

I can confirm that it's all still there

A very good friend of mine lives in Norton. I Know the area very well too.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

We used to live in High Littleton from 1979-83.

 

[Flat Foot]

We used to live in High Littleton from 1979-83.

That's still there too

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Somerset coal mining area.

 

[Flat Foot]

Indeed, and I've always liked living in an area with bits pointing to the history of the area - the buildings, the batches, the clues of the old railways etc. I grew up here, moved away for a few years then got sling-shotted back, and it's nice now to point to things and explain to my kids where it came from