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heh, you may have a point there...:) I did a track day a few years ago in my silvia and with all the big metal there, the jags, ferrari, porsche...the guy having the best time out there was a bloke in a smart roadster...!! Least amount of power but what a giggle to drive! he kept going round...

oooh, yeah, i'd forgotten about the VXR one. :) :party:

Nice little motors those. And when you get your No claims up and running, you can drop in the 2.0 turbo lump from the astra..:)

:doh: 500ml PET with Rasberryade bottled too early! They go at about 100psi......BOOOM!! Towel isnt goingto help, this one lifted the lid on the brew bucket it was quarantined in, with the brick on top too, flew 8' straight up and put a hole in the ceiling.... wasnt popular with the wife...

My two had their jabs on the same day this week, your heart aches for them then you want to scream at them as they keep you awake all night!! :)

How much water are you using, one eye?

Clearing well. I have some like that look like grenades!

Newcomers need encouragement and without getting all gushy, I have to say this forum has been the most welcoming and useful, friendly, free with info and help too. Thing is, is marketing a booZine (see what I did there-:) like this to get catchment of newcomers. Could it go in as a freebie to...

I have to say, as a relative newcomer to the sport of beer n wine n things, an 'idiots guide' book would have been great when i took my first steps. Knowing the basic principles of whats happening with the stuff you've just lobbed into the fermenter (local food factory chuck out a shed load of...

Any ideas on how to make it more black cherry-y ? Like others i took advantage of the sale and have one sitting awaiting my attention! :)

Cheers guys. I added a teaspoon of youngs wine yeasties in the primary, left it for a week till the airlock stopped doing its thing then bottled it. I currently have it inverted in the hope that the scuzzy stuff will drain on a venting. I get the feeling bottling may have reawakened the...

Followed the recipe above and then bottled into PET litre bottles. The pressure in the bottles is starting to bother me in that the white cap is starting to bow...! :eek: I've tried venting gently but there seems to be a lot of detritus in the bottom that comes rushing up when I crack open...

River cottage recipe is just nasty. :(

Intruiging subject this! Just read the last 4 pages and still have no idea what to do with the over stuffed set of 6 trees i've just found byvtotal accident....:D Black bag idea rocks! I bought some dried elderflowers and followed the river cottage recipe for elderflower champers and i have to...

Hmm, well that certainly raised some eyebrows at work! Most of the people here know I dabble in a little home brew and they certainly didn't recommend brewing rice!!! Personally, from a food safety point of view I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Waaaay too many ways of hospitalising...

I can try and find out when I go back to work tomorrow... I work for Tilda. :) I would imagine that mould is something that's actively avoided though!!

The bottles were about 6 months old, had been used a couple of times. The bottle has delaminated as well as detonated! Makes me think i should use my hydrometer more and PET less!! :D

Ah, seems i may have bottled my raspberry hooch a bit early... :whistle: :hmm: The ponk noise was the bottle base going, the thuk noise must have been the surface to cieling missile hitting the lid of the brew bucket that it was stored in, then hitting the cieling and makeing a great cap...

Cheers chaps, greatly reassured its just patience thats required! Fermentation is finished when theres little or no air lock movement? 20'c is a pain to maintain, isn't it? I was going to try the airing cupboard but thats got to be high 20's I'd have thought. :(

aha! cheers guys. i did think that the time involved was a bit quick! instructions that bad eh? oh dear....looks like i have some serious reading to do! love the plastic coat hanger method :) cheers for the linky to the other thread, all the questions i was looking to ask! :) i'm an...