Recent content by Tony1951

Thanks Ian. I appreciate your input.

Thanks Ian. I will look up 'Pellicle. There is definitely no vinegar taste or smell and no unpleasant flavours or smells. I tasted the pellicle and it just tastes like yeast and cider. I originally asked if I should put in some campden tablets and kill everything, and then after an interval...

Thanks Dutto. I've made many an all grain beer and of course that is essentially sterile from the long boil. The cider though was just made of pulped apples some of which came off the ground. I was just a bit worried that the inevitable bugs present in the unsterilised apple juice might bring...

You are getting no more response than I am Sandeman. I have brewed a good many all grain brews in my beer making hobby, but I have never made cider until now, except I did once make some rather unpleasant turbo cider with apple juice bought in cartons and added a good deal of sugar and water...

Hello again. Some of you might remember me before I moved house and stopped brewing. I'm back with a question and I hope not a problem. I had done about forty some brews of all grain beer and all but one were successful. Not all were great beers, but I pretty much had the technique so I am not...

You still lose that volume whether it is filtered out and stays in the boiler, or whether you leave it behind in the FV after fermentation. It doesn't get bottled either way. I find it makes no difference to the beer in the end as long as you don't stir up the fine floaty stuff as you syphon it...

'I am a beautiful lady in a far away country and I saw your picture online and it made me want to know you very well indeed. Here are my pictures (www.smuttyhorror.com). Unfortunately my brother has been arrested and I need money to help him out of a bad place. Please send me your savings and I...

Did you mean bag-less mashes? :) I found a snag on my last brew. I couldn't get the beggar to heat at all. The element must be bust, I thought. I had the base off and started following the circuit through from the power source and found it stopped at the timer........ GRRRRRRR. My own...

Ah - this may be the issue for me. I try to keep my mobile number to my close associates. I had bad experience in the past with unwanted sales calls after giving it out to a car accident repair company. No suggestion that geterbrewed would do that - its just become a habit of mine since. I'll...

The main rule for investing is to NEVER NEVER NEVER pile all your money into a sure thing. Diversify ALWAYS because any investment can go bad or take a dive just when you need or want to cash it in. Think about it this way; people who invested all their savings in Northern Rock shares are pretty...

I REALLY liked getting deliveries from DPD because they send a tracking number and an accurate arrival time. This removes the need to have someone hanging about waiting for an undefined time which we now have with Parcelforce. DPD are an exellent, customer focused company; Parcelforce, not so...

Jonathan. I've been well pleased with every order I got and especially the good value I have had from your firm including the order I received yesterday. I don't think on the evidence that the complaints made in this thread were reasonable or even accurately described and such as they were...

Morning Johnnyboy. The purpose of 'the Chelsea Chop is to make plants more compact for aesthetic and structural reasons and to delay flowering. When you have just planted a butchered scrap of root like we have in the first year after planting a rhizome, we want that root to grow extensively and...

I'm sure you know this, but just in case any youngsters are reading, ensure plenty of ventilation when burning large gas burners partially indoors. Lest someone some day be found dead from carbon monoxide. Hope this doesn't come over as patronising, but it happens with depressing regularity...

This is a good resource about growing hops on a smallish scale, though to be honest, it's a much bigger scale than I can ever dream of: http://careyinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Alison_OrganicHopsManual.pdf I'm a bit bothered about the advice to cut off the growing tips of the plants. The...