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  1. David_M

    Love Brewing New Kit Giveaway!

    Double Dancing Duck please. 🦆🦆
  2. David_M

    Show us your dog

    Pepper, went for her last walk in September last year. 2 weeks short of her 14th birthday.
  3. David_M

    Show us your dog

    Just brought a few tears to my eyes Dutto.
  4. David_M

    Win 2 Cornelius Kegs! (Started 30.10.2021) ENDED

    8327, in with a chance this time.
  5. David_M

    Bottling

    I've managed to scrunch a few caps but not many. The head of my capper has a magnet in it, if I put the cap on the bottle and bring the capper down the cap jumps up to meet it and doesn't alway sit straight. So not really a scrunched cap but more an off centre cap that isn't properly sealed. I...
  6. David_M

    Bottling

    I used to break bottles regularly with the hand capper, not a lot but enough for me to remember it. I also used to nip tiny holes out of my tee shirts if I held the metal capper against my body to steady it whilst using it. I think I've only had one mishap with a 330ml bottle since starting with...
  7. David_M

    Bottling

    I bought a bench capper and wouldn't go back to the hand capper. I too use different sized bottles and used to group them and adjust the height. I now have a number of wooden blocks of different thicknesses and just use them instead of adjusting the height of the capper.
  8. David_M

    Covid - Plan B & Omicron

    My booster should be due in mid November, no problems taking another shot in the arm. Hardly felt the first two and only suffered an achy arm for a couple of days.
  9. David_M

    Made my first cider....but

    Very dry is very dry, even after a long conditioning period. I batch prime and bottle, so weighing out and adding the sucralose at that point is only a minor additional step.
  10. David_M

    Made my first cider....but

    No off flavours or bitter after taste. If you look it up on the Internet it seems that the starting point in the manufacture of sucralose is sucrose.
  11. David_M

    Made my first cider....but

    Hi, I use Morrisons sucralose granulated sweetener. Same sweetener as Splenda but cheaper. 30g in 23 litres of cider takes the edge off just enough for my taste.
  12. David_M

    Big Jugs!

    I use KFC gravy pots.
  13. David_M

    £13.30 for 25kg bag of Pale Malt - North West England and the Midlands

    Hi, could I be added to the list please? I live in Manchester. Not sure what I'd want just yet, stock check required in January.
  14. David_M

    Fans

    Plus only used 2 fans, so have one left for my conditioning cabinet.
  15. David_M

    Fans

    I bought a pack of 3 fans for mounting in a pc, connected them to a 12 volt power supply that I had lying around, we all have them somewhere. Also found this on Amazon, cheaper can be better...
  16. David_M

    Looking for that WOW factor - am I falling out of love with beer?

    25kg bag of crushed grain starts at £13.50 (see the forum group buy from Staffordshire Brewery), that should do for 5 brews, unless you want to go for a high gravity. A bit of extra gravity can be gained using sugar or something else with sugar in it. I have on occasion used maple syrup. The...
  17. David_M

    Fermentasaurus snubnose fermenter review

    Christmas is round the corner, 🤔
  18. David_M

    Can I make my brew sweet?

    If you are bottling try sucralose. I use Morrisons own brand in cider, 20g takes the dry edge off 24 litres of dry cider. I dissolve it with the sugar when batch priming.
  19. David_M

    Green Flag

    I passed a blue sign earlier this week that mentioned sat nav. A mile long white knuckle ride followed. When I reached the end of the track, because that's what it turned into, I saw another blue sign. "This road is unsuitable for motor vehicles. Do not follow your sat nav." I'm assuming that...
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