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Minimum order at Fawcetts malts in Castleford is 10 bags of mixed malts
cash on collection approx £18 for a 25 kg bag of Maris otter
and similar for other malts

a mate came round on sunday to do a double brew
here is the timlapse 8 hours. in 3 mins

my office varies hugely from day to day
Flooring installer most homes are spotless but then we get the filthy gits .

doing Bathroom floors can be bad if lots of males live in house .
and you would not believe what some kitchens are like .

then we get the replace carpets in the bedrooms of old folks homes 8O

some figures from a recent SMASH ( Single malt and single hop ) 23 ltrs
or about 40 pints

5 kilos of Marris Otter malt if bought from a homebrew shop would have been £1.60 per KG = £8
100 grams of East kent golding hops £3.00
Nottingham yeast £2.50
total £13.50
or £0.33 per pint

But if you can get a few mates interested and do group buys this is what it cost me
5 kilos MO @ £0.72 per kg = £3.60
100 gms EKG hops @ £1 = £1
Nottingham yeast = £2.5
total = £7.10
or .18p per pint

plus energy costs I use Propane for the boil and reckon on about £2 per brew

if on a water meter then get a 12v solar pump and use water from a rainwater butt and recirculate it through the chiller .

though you do get about 25 litrs of hot water which I use for the washing up after so using the heat 2 times.

It was only meant to be 11% but ended up at that though not yet got an ending gravity.

cheapest way for fermenting temp control is a large builders bucket and a fishtank heater surround the fermenter with water and set the thermostat on the fishtank heater and leave somewhere that is not too hot

second way is a insulated cupboard and a 50 watt greenhouse heater controled by a STC digital controller

STC 1000

Then a more complex way is a fridge with heater and STC 1000 to heat and cool if needed

Started this two weeks ago insane Belgian Quadruple for a mates 60th bday in September
going to bulk condition it in a cornie then bottle into 250 ml bottles
a sipping beer I think

Alien-Evil-60
Belgian Dark Strong Ale (18 E)Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 23.00 l
Boil Size: 25.81 l
Boil Time: 60 min
End of Boil Vol: 23.92 l
Final Bottling Vol: 23.00 l
Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage
Date: 23 Jan 2014
Brewer: Troutie
Asst Brewer:
Equipment: Trouts equipment
Efficiency: 72.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 72.0 %
Taste Rating: 30.0

Taste Notes:

Ingredients Amt Name Type # %/IBU
5.00 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 1 45.5 %
2.00 kg Munich Malt – 20L (39.4 EBC) Grain 2 18.2 %
2.00 kg Vienna Malt (6.9 EBC) Grain 3 18.2 %
0.25 kg Acid Malt (5.9 EBC) Grain 4 2.3 %
0.25 kg Carafoam (3.9 EBC) Grain 5 2.3 %
0.25 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt – 60L (118.2 EBC) Grain 6 2.3 %
0.25 kg Melanoiden Malt (39.4 EBC) Grain 7 2.3 %
1.00 kg Candi Sugar, Dark (541.8 EBC) Sugar 8 9.1 %
60.00 g Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] – Boil 90.0 min Hop 9 21.2 IBUs
50.00 g Tettnang [4.50 %] – Steep/Whirlpool 60.0 min Hop 10 7.4 IBUs
2.0 pkg SafBrew Specialty Ale (DCL/Fermentis #T-58) [23.66 ml] Yeast 11 –

Gravity, Alcohol Content and Color
Est Original Gravity: 1.108 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.016 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 12.3 %
Bitterness: 28.6 IBUs
Est Color: 82.8 EBC Measured Original Gravity: 1.106 SG
Measured Final Gravity: 1.010 SG
Actual Alcohol by Vol: 12.8 %
Calories: 1040.6 kcal/l
Mash Profile
Mash Name: Single Infusion, Light Body, No Mash Out
Sparge Water: 9.75 l
Sparge Temperature: 75.6 C
Adjust Temp for Equipment: FALSE
Total Grain Weight: 11.00 kg
Grain Temperature: 13.0 C
Tun Temperature: 6.0 C
Mash PH: 5.20 Mash Steps Name Description Step Temperature Step Time
Mash In Add 26.08 l of water at 71.9 C 64.4 C 75 min

Sparge: Fly sparge with 9.75 l water at 75.6 C
Mash Notes: Simple single infusion mash for use with most modern well modified grains (about 95% of the time).

Carbonation and Storage
Carbonation Type: Bottle
Pressure/Weight: 135.29 g
Keg/Bottling Temperature: 21.1 C
Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage
Volumes of CO2: 2.3
Carbonation Used: Bottle with 135.29 g Corn Sugar
Age for: 30.00 days
Storage Temperature: 18.3 C
Notes

Created with BeerSmith

just keep it on for the nightly barclays

Thanks Reggie

Forgive my ignorance but what is a narrow wide ring and what is it good for :oops:

My friend once asked to borrow my lump hammer
Why I asked
To smash my cast iron bath up on the forth floor .
so I says if we get it down can we have it
he says yes but no damage to the stairwell on the way down .
the bath in question is a clawfoot and a rather nice wedgewood paint job .
so three of us get it down his stairs and into the back yard
then off to get the van .
we were gone 10 mins and some bastid nicked it while we were away :evil: :evil:

Cold room and warm snuggly bed for a good nights sleep
my kids hated a hot bedroom and still do 23 years later

Hi John

Will send you the Dominator to try out Just need to build one so be a couple of days
will be OK with your existing battery .

Chris Lenses are the same but newer leds in both .

Get a good crosscut saw and a sawhorse then your wood will warm you up twice

dont forget to budget for the PPE if you get the chainsaw

more trees everywhere its got to be a win win for everyone
locking in CO2 and water more forests to ride walk in more firewood for the log burners

Hows the brewing going Capt ??

Curry = Bradford

Just made a low loader wheelbarrow for the Singletraction trail builders
for moving heavy boulders

Pic taken from afar so as to hide the welding :oops:

Most fitters wont take it for some stupid reason.

Because it costs him to tip it and he also needs a waste licence
thus putting up the fitting charge to the customer .

householder can take it for free to the waste centre

Tis a group buy with a few of us sharing to get costs down
min order is ten bags works out at .69p a kilo :D

Get some storage heater bricks and stack them around the back and sides of the stove for a slow release heater

Yes John but I have seen you riding ( Fit Git ) 8O
some of us need the winching capabilities of a granny ring (Fat Git) :oops:

Here is my experience on a Fatty
arrived march last year with 1×10 and was told by a few folks that you dont need a granny ring .
so rode it until end of august with not too many issues until a group ride in swaledale and really struggled on the ups
This was 1 week before I was due to take it to the Pyrenees so had a panic purchase of a double front and shifter and fitted just in time .

The granny does not get a lot of use but it sure is nice to have it .

I too have a Puffin on the way and will be fitting the single chainset from the fatty and hopefully one of those 42 rear sprockets

No he doesnt coz 2008 financial meltdown wiped out all his savings
both sets of parents already gone so no inheritances coming in

Interested in this thread
so what are the options for a tradesman whos no pension and a house he owns going to be in 10 years time

I was feeling real chuffed this afternoon after sawing up this lot by hand :D

That had the wind well and truly nicked when I saw this thread 8O.
one of those wooden houses would probably last me to the grave on my 4KW stove

It has also been happening to my ipad on here and on MTBR forums and that forum is so add heavy it slows to a crawl even on a fast cable broadband

My gob is smacked by this thread
its a bike not the space shuttle .

all you shiny arses who say they cant do a simple service on a bike
what happens when you have a breakage out on the ride .
or is there a cycling equivalent of the AA

yes its in good shape at the moment the Singletraction diggers keep it up to scratch .

let us know if you ride it all with no dabs specialy the bouldertrail

Where can I get one of these fancy cassettes been struggling a bit lately getting up the hill to my house

Hi John
Yes when can I pop out and have a look .
evenings any good though not tonight as just had a pint of homebrew :D

After reading the planetX thread
What would you have done had it been them who made the cockup

there is also the nicking of the win over Webber didnt do his image any good

Not going to get into a slanging match here but assuming a single run of say 3 metres of units that would be a saving of 1.5 sq metres of wood
lets say £40 per sq mts so £60 saved

40 sq mtrs is quite a large kitchen so I am guessing there will be more kitchen units than that .

I dont have cash to chuck away so there would be no expensive flooring under my units .
Yes a piece of cake to fit when the room is empty then along comes the kitchen fitter and drops his hammer on the new floor or drags a unit into position , Ooops sorry I have just buggered your nice new floor

Been there seen it happen more times than it should .

I can give you a quote for fitting only or for some nice woods and fitting .

As DD says engineered be better in a kitchen specially if you are doing the brewing in there also .
Just done a nice unfinished engineered oak floor and oiled with osmo oil
looked great

hey up John. flooring fitter for 35 years and in Silsden so can pop over the hill and have a look .

put your kitchen in first and leave any skirtings off no point paying for wood you will never walk on

Lost both mum and dad to smoking related cancer
best thing to happen to me was nicking dads pipe when I was 9
was so sick for 2 days it was the first and last smoke for me.

sadly number 2 daughter smokes and is does make me sad to see all the school girls smoking

folks next door have just done that replaced the triwall poly with what looks like slates with 4 inch of kingspan insulation
but its not slates seems to be a sheet material of some sort

You need a couple of jack russel rat exterminators

I had an 11.5 mile walk back in france with a broken frame
mostly on the main road not one offer of help .