Recent content by BlakenhallBrewer

@TRXnMe - that'd be one of my brothers in law, i believe he's rebuilding a BGT but I've yet to see it running. :) The tankards were a bit of a project. I posted a forum topic on how they were made Here

What I got was a bottle of Glenlivet 12 year old single malt and an apron for my brewery. What I made to give as presents was damson gin and vodka for my sisters And Leather tankards and beer for my lads and brothers in law

Tried my new Edwin Jagger DE 89 BL out, using one of the Derby blades that came with it, for the first time last night and was mightily impressed. One slight nick by my Adams apple but I can live with that. I've just ordered a new (decent) brush and a sampler pack of different blades - can't...

If it's one of the Coleman Xtreme one's it's easy. Here's how I did mine The Ice plug just unscrews I went to my local plumbcenter and got a long tank connector as a standard one is just to short Before fitting it to the coolbox I drilled it out with a 15mm drill A ball tap fits...

Firstly I cleaned and sanitised one of my empty Cornys using Tubby Shaws excellent tutorial I then filled it with an AG SMASH that's been sitting in a secondary FV for the last week It's now sitting in the shed carbing up. :) I then decided that I'd make up one of the kits that I bought...

Now't wrong with doing kits Mick. I'm lucky and have a full ag setup but i still bought 2 kits from Wilko's yesterday as they were on offer. I'm looking forward to doing them as soon as I've a free fermenter. +1 for Mick to stay

This one.... Hand cut, tooled, sewn and beerproofed by myself. I'm pretty pleased as it was and only my second attempt at any type of leatherwork. If you'd like to see how it was made Here's how my third attempt turned out :D

It's been a few years since I've been, I must admit, but I'd recommend a holiday on the Scillies to anyone. I'd stay on St Marys if I had the choice but that's only 'cos there's more pubs, more to do and it's easier to get to all of the other islands from there. Friday night used to be great...

Six Bells I always used to pop in when I was anywhere near Bishops Castle and ended up preferring the Six Bells to the Three Tuns but I don't think I could get a £300,000 purchase past the missus even though she likes my beer :D

Lol - Sounds just like the time we told one of our lads at work that the word "gullable" wasn't in the dictionary. It took him about an hour of trying to convince us it was before the penny dropped :D

I got all the bits I used from http://www.tandyleatherfactory.co.uk in Northampton and http://www.theidentitystore.co.uk in Matlock. They both do a great mail order service or you can visit them to pick up what you want (I can vouch for them being very nice people in both, as I visited both...

I've brewed the Sarah Hughes from the recipe in Grahams book a couple times now and both times I've been really pleased. I don't live far from the Beacon in Sedgley where it's brewed so I can get decent comparison and I'd say Graham's recipe is pretty spot on. Saying that I was looking at the...

Congratulations and good luck, it'll have been worth the wait :)

Cheers, Thanks for the comments. As I said I'm a real amateur at this, and this tankard is only the third thing i've made. With a bit of patience and a little help off the internet I'm sure anyone could produce one. If you want to see some real craft the take a look at some of the stuff...

After I saw a bloke drinking out of a leather tankard at Shrewsbury Folk Festival last year I thought to myself "I wouldn't mind one of those..." I looked around for one and found the Hidebound site which looked very tempting. But as ever, just buying one seemed too easy and I kept thinking "I...