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Cornish lifesavers ipa sounds great!

hi, I was given about 20 kilos of over ripe, some mushy grapes last week. I crushed them and strained them the next day (got about 2 gallons of juice) but had no yeast so left them till now. I brought them indoors last night to get to room temp before adding the yeast but the must has started...

This is the same as the one I got about 4 years ago. I built mine into a box. Two wires in from your wall outlet and two wires out to your boiler plus join the earth wire. The digital display shows the % of power from 0% to 100% up/down by the two white buttons. I actually wired the output to a...

I bought a voltage regulator from China on eBay. Works like a dimmer switch but can handle up to 10000 watts. Easy to wire up too like a plug and controls the boil on my tea urn from a rapid boil to a very gentle simmer.

Sorry will have to pass this one.

Interested, I’m in Essex

I’ve only just gone over from bottles to 2 barrels with S30 valves so I hope something is done to be able to get refills.

Thanks for the advice. I decided to leave it alone as I don’t intend drinking it till well into the new year so should settle by then. Next time I’ll do it differently.

Thanks for that. I’ll pour it back in to the fermenter through a sieve

hello, a quick question, I’ve just siphoned my latest wilko “summer ale”- which came with hop pellets- in to a barrel to condition. A lot of the dissolved hop pellets got sucked in to the barrel and are floating around. I’m just asking will they sink to the bottom in time or should I have...

I checked the dates And they’re well in date. They weren’t discounted or in a sale so I assumed they were priced wrong. I expected to be told £40 at the till but no, £20 for both. All the other wilko, coopers etc. kits were usual price.

I just picked up a Woodfords wherry and an admirals from Wilko in Sheffield for £10 each!

I just have a blister on my palm but as for jars getting tighter ? I don’t know how elderly people get on. People used to ask me to open jars but now I also struggle at 50 ish ish ish years old. Beetroot is good but I’m more a gherkin man myself.

I don’t know if there’s such a thing as ‘home brewers hand’ but I think I’ve got it after doing up 40 plastic bottle tops.