Recent content by Sinktipper

Well, I can design it for you if you'd like? Be a bit of fun and make a change from what I do all day. Apologies if I'm overstepping the mark!

I can help with this if you like. I'm a graphic designer with the full Adobe Creative Suite.

I tried my coopers bottles on the top shelf of our dishwasher to see if they'd melt or disintegrate, and they were fine. Maybe I got lucky. To be honest I'm fed up of them. When empty the slightest waft of air knocks them around all over the place like skittles. I've got the neighbours saving...

My old BSA Meteor is still in my parents' loft. I used to be a crack shot with it. I grew up in a semi-rural Yorkshire town. Lots of people had shotguns or more powerful air rifles and it was perfectly usual to go out shooting rabbits (or the Duke of Devonshire's pheasants). I was a member of a...

I'm afraid I can't help with the belt, haven't got one. I ferment under our stairs, which is at 24 degrees year-round, but they do seem to work very well going by what many others have said. Other options are heat pads and immersion heaters. The main thing is to avoid extreme fluctuating...

My understanding was that slightly higher temps were better for the yeast to kick off? I've never got temperatures that low to try it acheers.. I'm here to learn.

It is. I wince it down. I make it for the neighbours.

Point 1: That's a bit low for many ales, but you can always get a heat belt to raise the temperature of a fermenter if you need to. I struggle to get ambient temp down to below 24 degrees. If you decided to do beers that ferment at lower temperatures you'll be able to source a used fridge for...

A vinator full of starsan, a bottling wand and filling the bottles over the open dishwasher door has made my bottling life so much easier. I also use the dishwasher to clean the bottles prior to sanitising. I don't use any detergent. I'm sure the bottles aren't 100% free of crud inside but it's...

My neighbour made cider with donated apples a couple of years ago, I didn't get to try it but it seemed a lot of effort for not a lot of cider. Fun, though. He also said my turbo cider was better than his real stuff (and my turbo cider is quite horrible).

Strange - looks like a few different Cooper kits in stock at B2B when I look. Do you need to delete cookies (or something)?

Looks like it's changed, but MM had a window for orders containing malt that they'd announce on their Facebook page, usually around 3pm. Understandable given the pandemic, but it wasn't as straightforward as logging on and ordering whenever you want. It wasn't much extra effort - my latest...

I've not made one, but the Hammer Of Thor kit is supposed to be a reasonably convincing ale yeast 'lager'. Costs twice as much as a Coopers kit though!

Depends if it's cask or keg John Smiths!

Thanks for the tip - although I did afterwards discover that I have enough 'ordinary' empties for my next brew, so I may well order a bench capper from you. Although I do sort of like the 'theatre' of popping off a swingtop :cool: