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  1. hedgerowpete

    why is it called home brew Wednesday?

    About 10-15 years ago when i first came here and a lot of other forums. It was very common for the forums You Tubers to put out your home brew video on a Wednesday. Many video peeps then started their videos videos with "hello and welcome to home brew wednesday"
  2. hedgerowpete

    Happy Solstice All

    went to the Rollright stones, older and less crowded and far less idiots
  3. hedgerowpete

    Equipment For Sale Swing Top Bottles.

    I know your troubles i tried to get rid of 360 Grolch bottles in crates and have been for a couple of years, no one wants them any more.
  4. hedgerowpete

    P&O Ferries sacks 800 workers but crew refuse to leave ships

    i do love how quickly you all grab at any stick to beat any person that does not follow the company forum line here. Its very funny how you all miss a massive issue and big situation and attack someone trying to be a devils advocate and explain what the pressure and situation these workers are...
  5. hedgerowpete

    P&O Ferries sacks 800 workers but crew refuse to leave ships

    Agency staff are on a higher hourly rate at the agency. But come with zero pension costs and no sickness, maternity or benifits which now are considerable. You have non of the nonsence of union strikes and walk outs which will also save you a fortune over the summer because if you had employed...
  6. hedgerowpete

    P&O Ferries sacks 800 workers but crew refuse to leave ships

    I love the way some people here have gone for the same old BS answers their grandparents did 50 years ago as an excuse. SYme excuses i heard when the miners committed suicide with strikes at work. you get rid of 800 staff for one simple reason they are hugely expensive and unwieldly. Thanks to...
  7. hedgerowpete

    Nettle wine advice sought

    nettles have a lot of silica and iodine in them, you get a reasonable wine but a strange after taste on the finish, not a bad wine and i have certainly made a lot worse. i find its a "once wine"
  8. hedgerowpete

    If you could only drink one commercial beer for the rest of your life.......

    newcaste brown ale. been drinking it for the last 34 years now, going to enjoy the next 34 years drinking it
  9. hedgerowpete

    Wine Making Equipment

    Why as a novice would you want to spend thousands of pounds on shiney kit when we can produce award winning wines with plastic fermentors. This love of shiney has spread from the rich idiots over at shiney beer brew land. As a novice a plastic fermentor with a simple bucket will cost you very...
  10. hedgerowpete

    Help - fusel alcohol in my cask ale...

    if its fusel oil in the brew its a monster splitting hangover the next day. i remeber see that terrible stuff in the ingreadiants lists on beer recipes years ago
  11. hedgerowpete

    Swing bottles or caps

    i started with recycled newcastle brown ale bottless so did the crown cap route, i also use the crown caps on my champange bottles too. i rolled over to flip tops after landing on a load of reasonably price flip top bottles
  12. hedgerowpete

    Rishi Sunak announces £350 support for households

    Can we ask if the £350 cheque is made out too, " The Malt Miller" and lets not tell the wife please
  13. hedgerowpete

    North Kent Homebrew Club

    sods law any other weekend of the month. I am desperate to come and see you all but not this month for me. Wi sods law, any other weekend of the month, wife has had long term plans for me and the valantine weekend. i would love to get over to you all but i am on a plane thursday afternoon...
  14. hedgerowpete

    Storm Malik followed by Storm Corrie

    terrible about the loss of life and damage to things, BUT got the kites out yesterday and had a brilliant time blasting around on a power kite in the local area. happy days
  15. hedgerowpete

    WEIRDEST WINE EVER MADE?

    There is tiny pin sharp thorns on the leaves, stem and tips on brambles, the best tips of the plant are so fresh the tips are still soft andd not hard
  16. hedgerowpete

    WEIRDEST WINE EVER MADE?

    Try the cjj berry book as it does a leaf recipe in that. i would suggest 10% more on grape or fruit for better flavour
  17. hedgerowpete

    WEIRDEST WINE EVER MADE?

    it is the very top section on a growing plant tendral. its the folded leaf bud and top four open leaves. in old english the top two inches. i used to describe it as the top leaves soft and tender. if the leave has sharp or rughness to it is to old for use. you should be able to clean off a...
  18. hedgerowpete

    WEIRDEST WINE EVER MADE?

    Camp makes better wine than coffee beans, trry that its far better
  19. hedgerowpete

    WEIRDEST WINE EVER MADE?

    Gallons of it, i have also done; oak leaf nettle ash leaf brich leaf beech bramble tip strawberry leaf, mint and dried herbs and roots all known uk teas in bags and boxes and a huge amount of loose leaf everyone hears of brich sap but you can also try ash sap, oak sap, walnut sap, willow sap...
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