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Great advice. I have been looking at this for a while. I am more than happy with my digital jobbie for my boiler but have not been happy taking the lid off my MT. Parts ordered and lets see... :cheers:

I would be a little concerned about leaving it open as homes aren't as dust/dirt free as a brewery. As a rule of thumb, loosely covered it fine as long as insects don't get in. I only use airlocks as it is easier to clip a lid on and push an airlock in. It also makes it easier to monitor how...

NI brewers unite! I have been tempted on many occasions to try and start and NI based homebrew internet company as I am fed up with paying through the nose for P&P. I have found the homebrew company to be inconsistant at times but it beats paying a fortune! I have recently been let down...

Nice! Tool Station have taken a bit of a hit from me and I am waiting for delivery. :whistle: Not sure yet if I will use a copper drain for braid yet. Bought a bit of a job lot to build 2 MT's too. Will post a pic once it is here. Thanks again. :drink:

On a serious note, don't get a cheap kettle from ASDA to do this. It is an bloody nightmare compaired with the tesco one!

Genius work on the heating and valuable stuff on the electrical safety, but can I ask a bone question about 'drainage'. I can't see a tap of any description on the pictures or an added filtration kit (copper pipe or steel braid). Did you have anything or will a bog standard plastic tap work...

Cheers Keith. :cheers: I thought that there was some underpinning logic here. Building stuff for fun then realy! Having woken up this morning 'fresh' from testing a rather cheeky Red it appears that I have already bid on a 50 Litre pan from the same place on thier german ebay site. If I...

Advice from the brewing demi-Gods please......... I am looking at moving to AG brewing and I have been looking at building a boiler from a converted FV (kettle elements etc). Randomly wandering around town I saw one of those single plate electric cooker hob element things going for a song...

A slightly bone question here with respect to kettle elements.... If a Kettle is designed to turn off when the water hits boiling point, how does a kettle element boiler produce a sustained rolling boil? Is is simply that the volume of water stops it actually exceededing boiling point or is...

Why waste money on labels at all? Plain cheapy paper works perfectly well fixed with milk on glass and pritt stick on plastic! :cheers:

I use the labelizer site foir my beer but I haven't found anything as good for wine. Besides, as wine takes that much more effort in the making, I think that is justifies the effort! :P

Tried the prit stick on my PET bottles. It worked a dream! So much better than adhesive labels! I am still a fan of milk on glass though.

The trouble is that I am all together too anal for hand written labels. This is not helped by the fact that I have hand writing like a junior doctor!

Exactly what I use on my PET beer bottles. Milk doesn't work on plastic and adhesive labels are a ******* to get off and just shorten their lifespan!

I have an agreement with a restaurant that I pass on the way to work that they don't mind me raiding thier recycling bin. I was working on the theory that a restaurant probably produces a more regular stream of wine bottles than a pub. Seems to be working so far and I am getting 20+ a week or so.

I got a vinebrite mark 3 that is about 15 years old and a stack of about 30 filters. It looks like the one on this thread but without the vent. I works really well dispite the age. viewtopic.php?f=48&t=10179 Worth keeping an eye out on ebay!

Being too tight to buy a filter I got one for a fiver with a load of other stuff. I tried it out today on the last of the batch (no 1 at the start of the thread) and it is amazing. Needless to say, I will never bottle without filtering again!

Simples! Good find Ardwyn. Not sure why he is using anything other than 'bog standard' paper though. Maybe it is just for glossy label but I think matt looks better on the bottle.

Well it's back to work on Monday and back to reality.... Bummer but at least I have a good head start on the world and I wanted to share the fruits of my various labour over the last couple of weeks. This is my drinking /conditioning stash: Top shelf barrel is empty (for now) and wines are...

I have an electric heat gun I use to burn down and beeswax boots. It also has a lower setting which is a little hotter than a hairdryer which does the job perfectly.